Obese Barbie: Not A Good Idea
Who should be Plus-Size, Double-Chinned Barbie's counterpart, drug addict/wastrel Ken?
Because many people are now fat doesn't mean it's something to emulate or encourage.
In fact, it's tragic so many kids are allowed to plump up, and even more tragic that our government and the AMA contributed to this by putting out the advice that we should eat a low-fat, high carb diet: precisely the diet that makes people fat and diabetic.
And finally, this might be a great marketing ploy for a modeling agency featuring overweight ladies, but the notion that little girls will actually want fat-looking dolls seems rather ridiculous.
Our standards for beauty are evolutionarily driven and also driven by what is high status in a culture (which, by the way, is also ultimately evolutionarily driven).
Our genes don't care about what's PC.
Wasn't that already done, as the Garbage Pail Kids?
jdgalt at January 5, 2014 12:04 PM
From the buzz I have heard other places, this was actually a Photoshop contest entry and was not meant as any sort of political statement.
coffee! at January 5, 2014 12:37 PM
Given the disproportion in the other direction for several generations of toy-owning girls, resentment for this first offense from the other direction seems churlish.
If "body issues" is something deserving of serious consideration, fat models are the problem.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at January 5, 2014 1:21 PM
The auto ad banner for this post is about diabetes.
Apparently the Web knows what's up.
Radwaste at January 5, 2014 3:05 PM
I'm all for not publicly shaming the obese. I'm not for treating it like it's normal. It's not normal. It's not safe.
Patrick at January 5, 2014 3:46 PM
Oh, bullshit. Barbie and Ken are unhealthy, coked-up alcoholics who made millions on the nefarious housing bubble deal, and they still act like they're innocent. They should be in jail.
Remember the "Venus of Willendorf". Those many moons ago, she was the picture of health, fertility and family. Same thing today. Big Barbie takes care of her aging relatives, knits, sews and knows how to cook damn well.
Jason S. at January 5, 2014 6:56 PM
Wasn't that already done, as the Garbage Pail Kids?
Supposedly a new Garbage Pail Kids movie is being made, and the guy who created the original series has an interesting history.
Jason S. at January 5, 2014 7:02 PM
> Posted by: Jason S. at January 5, 2014 6:56 PM
☑
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at January 5, 2014 7:53 PM
Fattie Barbie: just another symptom of our degraded culture.
mpetrie98 at January 5, 2014 7:57 PM
> just another symptom
A wheeze no worse, I affirm, than her first incarnation. (Or her first polymerization or whatever.)
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at January 5, 2014 8:38 PM
Leave a comment