Especially with beauty and insanity. Due to body associate and it would be biologically impossible to survive. And she is so much more than adults at the toys youre playing with. Dont look anything like you. Then what does that telling you in 2023. Barbie is brought to life in a wild and quirky comedy, directed by a feminist filmmaker of all people, dis barbie still matter today. And did she ever the for over 60 years barbie hasnt body the american beauty, ideal athletics, super slim blond, her biographer. Yes. Barbie has a biography, but like miss barbie teaches women, what for better or worse is expected of them in society but who would come up with such an idea the woman that created barbie and sort of it, you know, infused her with her very progressive ideas. Was, was a trailblazer and a feminist. It might come as a surprise that barbie was actually a german invention. Long legs be guys and a blond pony to barbies ancestor literally were high heels and skimpy clothes. She was born in the 1950s as a cartoon character for the tabloid newspapers bid. Soon the drawing became a 3 dimensional door looking more like a pin up then a childrens toy, for in perfectly shape little dolls. In this case, better suited to own the children at the traditional and totally fat in durham back. The dog was also sold in switzerland, where a faithful encounter took place in about 1956. My husband, i took a vacation with my daughter, barbara, and my son kemp. And we were in switzerland and there was a display that i saw this adults dall. It was exactly the kind of dell that toy entrepreneur ruth handler wanted for her daughter when she could not only play money with that one for which she could dream up an exciting life or when she could. Wow, the barbie is single, childless, and confident in 1959. That was a very modern image of a woman. Root handler was way ahead of her time. So its, you know, 5060 is very, very conservative. When barbies being invented, bruce handler was a jewish feminist, who was working at a very young age and she was working at paramount pictures. As a teenager driving around, she picked up the guy that she liked. Elliot handler who she wound up marrying she proposed to him from then on lily was renamed barbie after their daughter, barbara. But handlers company wouldnt buy the rights to the literally dont until 1964, 300000 barbie sold in the 1st year. And the goal is still one of the best selling toys in the world. Barbie laid the foundation for the successive mattels which built an entire universe around her get. It wasnt until 64 years later that barbie came to life on the big screen circle back to them. And then theres can then go to the a beautiful man for a beautiful woman. Since 1961 barbie has had an infinitely loyal and therefore rather boring partner with a mustache on 10 and make believe hes a bad or side and please the you this dont to was named after one of the handler. Chill address their son 10 from now on can will be barbies sidekick. The guy in her long pink shadow. Im coming with you. Did you bring your roll of weight . I literally go nowhere without boom. Although he tries to keep up with barbies fashion, he always makes a slightly underwhelming impression. And lets face it can doesnt stand a chance against barbies glamour. Barbie never married. It was only the boyfriend who was the accessory. Barbie was always the star. A woman who doesnt have to get married and doesnt have to have kids and has their own great house and has their own great car. And i think has their own airplane at this point and are on the boat. And you know, gets to be with can when she needs a date but then doesnt need and most of the time i think thats i think is pretty cool. No 2 hours. Number 2, i have to use the search unix job in say it has to be said really makes the headlines bought in 1993, the earring magic kendall triggered. One of the few can controversies with his fishing net shirt, leather waist coat and jewelry. This can proved unexpectedly popular with a gated community before mattels took the dog off the shelves to progressive for the kids rooms. After all, ken does have one small flaw, at least as a dog. And its something that women or barbie should be aware of, and she has no genitalia, oops. And why is that . And im actually not sure the was waste atomic breasts and less legs. Lets be honest, who looks like that. Even the doctor say not all organs would fit into barbies body for breasts would be so heavy in real life that you would have to crawl on all fours. Some it is say shes not a suitable toy for little kids and those feet. Barbie is everything we didnt want to be and were told to be with us. Not all for many, some of this in the western world. Body embodies an image of a woman that is meant to perform bobby eastward as barbies, maybe not the norm, but already a step in the construction of this norm of the young white, then non disabled body, which is ready for action in a capitalist world. Because the fit body also stands for the performing body, which you can do what you want with my kind of as my most of the problem is. Barbie stands for a beauty standard that can put pressure on young girls who then star themselves in order not to become overweight and to look as beautiful and perfect as their barbie dolls. Their Scientific Research to support this i think that the darby brown is still fundamentally tied up in a really unhealthy ideal, a femininity of what it means to be an attractive woman and a good woman, a wherever you want. And, and, you know, i think by talking change by disclose, and they can change the packaging and they could make her body moderately more realistic. But im just not sure that there is escape being, you know, that history. And that when youre putting these dolls in the hands, as of those little girls around the world, there is a message there. And that message is, you know, this is some kind of ideal yet despite all the criticism barbie continue to sell really well. But then battelle made a mistake in the early ninetys, theyve released up talking barbie. And now barbie was also certified stupid. That was one step too far for the barbie. Liberation organizations which took a subversively ironic look at the downtrodden dog as well as her male counterpart g. I. Joe, both toys replicated stereotypes. The so i worked with a bunch of people, 1st transplanting the voice boxes and barbies and joes and asking friends around the country to join the organization and send the toys in. So they could be operated on and sent back to be put back on store shelves. And so, um they were sold again for christmas, you know, to a bunch of unsuspecting people. I donated my voice to a g. I do cause they want to be free to happen. They were sick and tired of of being a sort of a, you know, being stereotypical. They were, they wanted to do things that were different and unique just like many of us do. And so they were billed against the company that made them it made the National News another holiday shock. This one under some christmas trees. Why r g i joe and barbie talking like each other. Yeah, joe wants a friend to come along to the dance though, but everybody else seemed to really like it. That was the really, the big surprise is that most people who saw this thing were kind of in favor of the barbie liberation organization. Because once you see the toys doing what they do with the voices switched, it becomes obvious. Whats wrong with them . We have a g, i joe. And um, let me see what he says. Yeah, i loved the planner party with skipper on the weekend. Ultimately the team talked barbie was a flop. The regardless barbies Success Story continued, especially that of the original dont white, blonde and extremely slim. Bobby spans might argue, thats a pretty little dog, wasnt stupidly waiting for prince charming, but works for a living from an early age and not as a secretary either. Hes a doctor, a dancer, a dentist, a pilot, or even a president. Whatever the job, of course, she has the Perfect Outfit for it. I think its simple. I think its you could be anything you can be anything you want to be. You dont have to follow. You dont have to be a mommy taken care of. Little babies, you dont have to get married. You dont have to have your father or your husband supporting you. You can support yourself, you could do anything you want. You could have one of hundreds of careers. You could have your own place, you could have your own car. You could have a son. Wonderful, amazing life. You want can call these there if not thrown under the bed and you know, so good role with your science as girlfriends. You know, a clever message by the toy giant mattels now theyre saying we want to inspire and empower girls. Thats why famous women are being immortalized as barbie dolls. The painter frida kahlo the astronomer maggie aaron polka the primate researcher and environmental as jane goodall. Even the recently departed, british queen has a party the n. Hey barbie looks just like the astronaut samantha, christopher ready. Its a great promotional tube imma tell with a simple message, girls can go to outer space to the. So i do think the company has the leech side to shift to barbie is to reflect what parents want for their daughters and for what young girls kind of see and understand as normal and not outdated. But i do think that you know, battelle and barbie are always, but a couple of cases behind the. Okay. Okay. Barbie is running a bit behind the zach guys. But the zeitgeist is running behind her to this painting of barbie by andy warhol, is fitting consumption is exalted as high art. Premier likeness turned into a spectacle. Other art is to use barby as raw material to play with the stereotypes associated with the toy artist Dina Goldstein takes a series of photographs that show barbie and ken living together both dreaming but not about each other about a different hot guide. And then theres this, an unsuspecting barbie catching can in bed with a man, a very different kind of dream house. No one has as many barbies as german collector bettina dolph months, who owns over 18000, making it into the Guinness World records. When museums in tokyo, las vegas or berlin want to put on a barbie exhibit, they usually get their dolls from digital doors. Barbie and fashion are inseparable. Even world famous designers like Karl Lagerfeld and will she now have dressed the bundle or become a barbie themselves. But this one is not at all, but everyone can afford the code of barbie also produces some bizarre, a phenomenon. Some people are willing to do anything including pay millions to look like barbie. Thats what you call devotion the. And then there are also men who would like to look like ken. Rodrigo olivers has undergone several procedures to accomplish the look. Now going by the name of jessica, she wants to be barbie instead of calling all the one of the barbies, kens and dream house fanatics, the movie has also produced some real estate and its available to rent on air b and b. The 1968 the year that civil rights leader, Martin Luther king, was assassinated, was the time of severe Racial Discrimination in the usa. The 1st African American barbie was introduced. Her name was christie, and she was mattels statement to the moment. Yes, black is beautiful. Like christie wasnt exactly the same as barbie. Mattels narrative is one thing where they are very progressive with introducing a black friend for barbie through our lives, through the story in which we enter it. You know, of the black woman lands law that feels progressive for them. It feels less progressive for us in the sense of, um, for 21 years, there was a, a black passion, dog, worthy of the barbie brand name. Materia davis made a documentary about the history of black barbie. Her aunt was one of the women at battelle who convinced ruth handler to expand barbies universe for the inclusion of African American girls. So the lack of black dolls for them. Um, once they started to see them, then they want to like, oh, i love them, you know, thats all they ever really wanted when they were little were pretty black dolls. The, you know, the 1st black barbie goes on sale in 1980 finalize the black bar be represents the dall. Like represents my aunt and katie, black perkins and the other black employees. Lets tell being seen its like validation of being seen and heard. But black barbie is nowhere near as popular as her blond sister the, even in some african countries. Little girls prefer to play with a pretty little white dog. The on that square a nigerian entrepreneur steps in my those are, which was around 3. You dont see asked me you said that the what color of mine and im like, ok, i know you know the answer. And then she had a long phase and i was like, why . Um, she said, well, i wish i was right. Im thinking, why would you think, why would you wish you were why it says old cars . White is pretty. How could any father not feel sad . Hearing that tell say go cool. Yeah, got active and launched a new line of black dolls in nigeria in 2007 the queens of africa. Im just trying to say no, its more of them beauty. You need to have much more, you know, and also saying that know that i could have my head straight. I have my head curly, i can have it in black. Its my dignity. So i am, you know, im, that was a message that was behind, you know, the queens of africa, the queens of africa now corner of the dont market, at least in nigeria, theyre affordable. And theyre also african with natural hair styles and dressed in colorful traditional patterns dont the people from nigeria and other african countries can identify with you start to play. And if im able to get, you know, a childs life, my portal, like what that product stands for, im back put out, should be able to enlighten and teach them something out. The weve said that before, battelle is trying to keep up with the times. And that means greater diversity. Now barbie can be lots of Different Things like muslim a chinese chemo therapy in a wheelchair with a prosthetic leg barbie, you can have down syndrome. Finally, theres a curvy barby, which is technically an average size. The were going to be leaving the studies now show that even when forms of objectification are meant to be positive, to complement womens appearances, for instance, that still tells girls with okay, its all about my looks thats and that can make them see themselves as object setup obviously when it comes to barbies marketing and the way the products are portrayed, i still see only minimal attempts to break away from this intense focus on appearances. Which lies at the core of this damaging marketing concept. So you need focus of this. I still have to comment the entries to can from do some sheet vision, but guess which barbie is still the best seller. Battelle does have an image to consider. Thrilled to see it, but i still think at its cord, its roots. The bar, the brand is a pretty anti communist, you know, pretty uh, helpful, ideal for girls. And i would bet that a lot of women of my generation, im not getting their daughters barbies the so i think that the fact that mattels is willing to keep reinventing and rethinking every imagining, i think is a good thing. So the focus is no longer on being skinny or, you know, going to beach parties. The focus is on, you know, the, the dolls that are modeled after a famous scientist and, you know, can this doctors and famous designer so. So i think that theres been a little bit of a shift in terms of um, even the advertising the but try as they might to adapt barbies to real life. Many young customers go from loving to hating barbies. The use of for reasons who are like 5 years old in 2005, there were media reports of a strange phenomenon in the united kingdom, numerous cases of barbie dolls, getting tortured came to light. The renowned Bath University published a report that girls between the age of 6 and 10 were torturing their barbies in every way imaginable, or even completely destroying them. The researchers found that the girls thought their barbies were useless, but its not a new phenomenon. Heres a little kid, i would cut the noses off my barbies and cut the hair off. And um, as i said, instead of changing the clothes on the tiny don dolls, i would change their heads and i met a psychologist and she was actually a sex therapist named dr. Helen senior kaplan. And at one point when we started talking and i told her what i did to my barbara, she said, thats why youre healthy now because she took out all the aggression on your dolls. So you know, play when youre playing as a kid, i think taking your regression out as is, is probably a good thing to do. Susan shapiro still has her childhood barbies. She even wrote a book for bobbys 60th anniversary. So dont worry. Barbie still had a purpose for many the nothing lasts forever, even if barbie lives her best life. But where does she end up . Thats right in the trash. They say 3 barbie dolls are sold every 2nd and that really adds up. But mattels wouldnt pass up an opportunity to bolster its posit that image in 2021, it launched a barbie made of 90 percent recycled plastic. Barbie loves the ocean. The problem is that you can only recycle plastic 2 times maximum 3. So those toys that are harming already been recycled, ones are going to end up disintegrating, just like the rest of their plastic toys. And so it doesnt get rid of the problem. Recycling is part of the problem. Recycling has green washing when it comes in plastic, still use it. Give that some thought 40 you can go back to your regular life, or you can know the truth about the universe choice. The 1st one, the high you you have to want to know. Okay. Do it again, the intranet girl weeks film. Barbie land is a candy colored paradise with no deaf aging or getting frowns, which then barbie become so human. The best they ever it is the best they ever saw was yesterday. And so its tomorrow and every day from now. I think a really not denying that the i think that that was part of what was so interesting about her with this. You know, in some ways shes been ahead of culture in some way. Shes been behind it, but shes definitely been at the top of the conversation for 64 years. And thats why barbie matters because shes still evolving and she really ought to be able to age gracefully too. But one thing is certain good old can will keep on loving her unconditionally, the the hotels cost to the best. And the best to guard cuba and sell sausage inflation back to cuba to dell casters solutions and has failed even without cuba phasing revolution. 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