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Your Opinion on Plus Size Barbie

What do you think of plus-size barbie?

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Make a normal sized one. It doesn't need t look like it ate 14 other barbies. Just one that reflects a happy medium between the ultra thin and ultra large people of America.
 
TurtleDude said:
HTF can anyone be serious on a thread about barbie dolls:mrgreen:
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Hell you wouldn't think so, but never the less someone got ****ty with me for answering quotes directed to me, then made the claim it was all in joking fun. It wasn't in the nature of joking. It was just sheer bitchy.
 
vesper said:
Hell you wouldn't think so, but never the less someone got ****ty with me for answering quotes directed to me, then made the claim it was all in joking fun. It wasn't in the nature of joking. It was just sheer bitchy.
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I put a smiley face at the end, so that you would grasp the fact that I was joking. Sorry if that went right over your head. You need to calm down I think. All I said was that the thread was about Barbie, which IT IS.
 
iacardsfan said:
Make a normal sized one. It doesn't need t look like it ate 14 other barbies. Just one that reflects a happy medium between the ultra thin and ultra large people of America.
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Why should they? If someone doesn't like Barbie, they don't have to buy one. :shrug: There are American Girl dolls that people can purchase instead which do have the option to have one created to specification. People just like to complain and be miserable about things I think because it's really stupid to complain about a toy and insist that it causes some kind of "image problem." It's a toy!!! :lol:
 
ChrisL said:
Why should they? If someone doesn't like Barbie, they don't have to buy one. :shrug: There are American Girl dolls that people can purchase instead which do have the option to have one created to specification. People just like to complain and be miserable about things I think because it's really stupid to complain about a toy and insist that it causes some kind of "image problem." It's a toy!!! :lol:
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My granddaughters LOVE the American Girl dolls. They even have gatherings and group tea parties with the things. Mostly they love the stories behind each character.
 
ChrisL said:
Why should they? If someone doesn't like Barbie, they don't have to buy one. :shrug: There are American Girl dolls that people can purchase instead which do have the option to have one created to specification. People just like to complain and be miserable about things I think because it's really stupid to complain about a toy and insist that it causes some kind of "image problem." It's a toy!!! :lol:
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I'm not implying that the company should do anything they don't want to do. Though, if I were them that would be my suggestion. I believe it is unhealthy to portray to girls the need to be a twig.
 
Peter Grimm said:
There is currently a debate raging over at the Huffington Post whether Mattel should make a plus-size Barbie doll for children.

On the one hand, people are arguing that the original (skinny) Barbie promotes an unhealthy body image, and that little girls should have more realistic dolls to play with.

On the other hand, people are arguing that the plus-size Barbie promotes unhealthy eating habits, and they are saying it's political correctness gone wild.

Then, of course, you have the middle-of-the-roaders, who think they should make a Barbie somewhat in between the two dolls shown below.

What do you think?





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I would go with a Barbie a little heftier than the skinny one.

Barbie has always been way too skinny.
 
This just in.

In response to charges that Barbie and Ken represent an inaccurate ideal, Mattel has just launched it's new line.....

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ChrisL said:
I put a smiley face at the end, so that you would grasp the fact that I was joking. Sorry if that went right over your head. You need to calm down I think. All I said was that the thread was about Barbie, which IT IS.
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Who needs to calm down? But you are the one that directed the thread off topic and then reminded me this thread was about Barbie. What a piece of work you are and I say that with a green smiley. :mrgreen:
 
iacardsfan said:
I'm not implying that the company should do anything they don't want to do. Though, if I were them that would be my suggestion. I believe it is unhealthy to portray to girls the need to be a twig.
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I once read an article where somebody scaled up a full sized adult Barbie and determined she'd essentially die from either complications from her distorted and squished internal organs or a neck unable to support her head.
 
clownboy said:
My granddaughters LOVE the American Girl dolls. They even have gatherings and group tea parties with the things. Mostly they love the stories behind each character.
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Mine do too.
 
vesper said:
Who needs to calm down? But you are the one that directed the thread off topic and then reminded me this thread was about Barbie. What a piece of work you are and I say that with a green smiley. :mrgreen:
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I got the thread off track? I don't think so. I responded to another poster who posted a picture of a thin model is all, and one thing led to another and that is how the thread got off track. I wasn't the one who said women in their 50s and 60s have perky boobs.
 
vesper said:
I think you are thinking about Skipper. Skipper is Barbie's younger sister. But the last few years she has grown up now. Not as tall as Barbie and probably more proportionately accurate.
Barbie also has a little sister named Chelsea. But the rumor is when she broke up with Ken in 2004 she had a fling with an Australian surfer named Blaine and Chelsea isn't Barbie's "sister" but her "love child" from Blaine.
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There are things in this world that after I learn them I only wish to unlearn them. This is one of those times.
 
clownboy said:
My granddaughters LOVE the American Girl dolls. They even have gatherings and group tea parties with the things. Mostly they love the stories behind each character.
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Yes, every doll is unique. My little cousins loved them when they were younger too. They had ones that looked just like them with birth certificates and everything else you can imagine. :lol: Those dolls and accessories can be quite pricey though!
 
ChrisL said:
I got the thread off track? I don't think so. I responded to another poster who posted a picture of a thin model is all, and one thing led to another and that is how the thread got off track. I wasn't the one who said women in their 50s and 60s have perky boobs.
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Women had perky boobs in the 50s only because of the hardware design of the bras. False advertising we used to call it. Those huge, stiff conelike things were no measure of what actually lurked beneath. :mrgreen:
 
Peter Grimm said:
There is currently a debate raging over at the Huffington Post whether Mattel should make a plus-size Barbie doll for children.

On the one hand, people are arguing that the original (skinny) Barbie promotes an unhealthy body image, and that little girls should have more realistic dolls to play with.

On the other hand, people are arguing that the plus-size Barbie promotes unhealthy eating habits, and they are saying it's political correctness gone wild.

Then, of course, you have the middle-of-the-roaders, who think they should make a Barbie somewhat in between the two dolls shown below.

What do you think?

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Fat Barbie gives you options. Give her a crew cut, tattoo and low hanging jeans and a flannel shirt and you would have Bulldyke Barbie.
 
clownboy said:
Women had perky boobs in the 50s only because of the hardware design of the bras. False advertising we used to call it. Those huge, stiff conelike things were no measure of what actually lurked beneath. :mrgreen:
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I would call those torpedo tits or tube boobs. :lol:

Now THESE are cone boobs! Lol!

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Henrin said:
There are things in this world that after I learn them I only wish to unlearn them. This is one of those times.
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:lol: But it gets better in 2011, it was reported that Barbie and Ken got back together on Valentines Day. He still hasn't got a job. And his behavior is causing some tensions between them.

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And if showing up to tea wearing pink pumps wasn't enough... since the Barbie playhouse only has one bathroom and nature calls, she caught Ken shaving his legs while taking a bubble bath.

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I think the relationship is doomed. If only they had given Ken some genitila from the beginning, all this gender confusion could have been avoided. :lol:
 
And here I thought Ken aged and went into politics to become the current Speaker of the House.
 
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