"Barbie's Got a New Body"

[$tevie]

If you click on the barbie.com link you will find out more than you want to know.

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$tevie wrote:
If you click on the barbie.com link you will find out more than you want to know.

Yeah, there are a crazy number of options. Thank goodness all these were not available when my mom was binge buying Barbies for my daughter, or I would have even more bins of Barbies in the basement. lol

[cbelt3]

[ztirffritz]

I think the problem here is that women are smart enough to know that they don't, and won't, look like Barbie. Men on the other hand...we all think that we look like He-Man. I know I do.

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[vision63]

jdc wrote:
Is the third one supposed to be Rebel Wilson?

More like Meghan Trainor to me.

Those dolls look absolutely great and yes I'm sure girls will want to collect them all.

[$tevie]

I have never heard a feminist say that He-Man is a great toy for little boys. If men think that He-Man had a negative impact upon their self image, then let men do something about it like women did about Barbie. Women can't really claim to have experience in the internal emotional processes of men.

[$tevie]

Actually, the accusation that Barbie was created to make little girls seek an unattainable body image has always bugged me. She was built that way because the original Barbie clothes were well made clothes with actual waist bands and seams and such, and if they didn't give her a tiny waist she would have a muffin top once dressed -- and the original Barbie was sold as a "fashion model".

But it seems that lots of women find original Barbie's body to be a problem so why not change it? It's not like she's a statue in Rome, she's a doll. A doll whose sales were flat-lining.

[M A V I C]

Yep, Barbie is getting more and more out of touch with reality. Maybe in another 20 years we'll have a 700lb Barbie, and her house will have a removable roof so she can be rescued with a crane.

[decay]

Ronda Rousey!

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[3d]

$tevie wrote:
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One curvy body out of four? I guess it's better than nothing.

Not sure what you mean. There's 4 body types, 7 skin tones, 22 eye colors, 24 hairstyles, with all the combinations possible. This wasn't about making Plus Size Barbies.
That third body type IMO is NOT "Plus Size Barbie". It's normal size Barbie. I was hoping the company would move away from rail thin, thigh gap, Barbie. And more towards "real" body sizes. I'm not saying Obese Size Barbie or Cankle Legs Barbie. Just more proportional with reality and still attractive. Barbie already sells diifferent skin tones, eye colors and hairstyles on dolls so that was a non-story for me. For me, what got my attention, was the curvy/normal body type Barbie.