What signal does Barbie’s burka send?

Macleans ^ | 10 December 2009 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

Women forbidden by law from feeling sunlight—hey, that’s a positive message for young girls

The other day, George Jonas passed on to his readers a characteristically shrewd observation gleaned from the late poet George Faludy: “No one likes to think of himself as a coward,” wrote Jonas. “People prefer to think they end up yielding to what the terrorists demand, not because it’s safer or more convenient, but because it’s the right thing . . . Successful terrorism persuades the terrorized that if they do terror’s bidding, it’s not because they’re terrified but because they’re socially concerned.”

[JLS]

Steyn discusses burka Barbie dolls and there implications.

[JLS]

Here is another Steyn list ping opportunity.

[JLS]

Here is another Steyn list ping opportunity.

[TaxPayer2000]

[rockinqsranch]

“I would boycott Mattel Corp.” Mrs. RQSR.

[shadeaud]

My first thoughts were...............come and get it....a big surprise!

[Clintonfatigued]

Does the Burka Barbie include weapons with which to flog her if her sleeve rolls up too high or to honor kill her if her smiles at Ken?

[Slyfox]

Does the Ken doll come with dynamite in his six packs?

[marron]

Burka Barbie. Oh, and here’s Decapitated Barbie.

[driftdiver]

Won’t the little girls be surprised when they learn the doll is covered in hair under that burka.

[Stepan12]

Steyn is great!

[BossLady]

Sisters to Cousin It????

[popdonnelly]

It sends a signal that Western Civilization is in decline, and the Dark Ages are coming back.

[GAB-1955]

That if Moslem little girls are like my wife was, they'll be a lot of half-dressed and naked Barbies everywhere.

[Salvation]

**burka Barbie dolls **

Tell me it isn’t so.

[HereInTheHeartland]

This can’t be real. They actually make a Barbie with a suicide bomber vest?

[FrankR]

“I would boycott Mattel Corp.”

That's EXACTLY the signal it sends to me too.

[PGalt]

dhimmitude

[keepitreal]

"Math is still hard, but jihad is fun"

[Texas resident]

Who in the hell at Mattel decided to bow to the damn people who are at war with us? No better than ozero bowing.
ALLAH Snackbar.

[mamelukesabre]

Something tells me burka barbies won’t sell very well.

[PGalt]

Mattel needs to restart these ads for Western civilization...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=mattel+toy+tommy+guns&rlz=1R2HPIA_enUS349&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=n9IhS-_6EdGUnQfcyLzgCQ&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCIQqwQwAw#hl=en&source=hp&q=mattel+toy+tommy+guns&rlz=1R2HPIA_enUS349&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=n9IhS-_6EdGUnQfcyLzgCQ&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCIQqwQwAw&qvid=mattel+toy+tommy+guns&vid=7551021328960524264

[Tired of Taxes]

I looked up “Burka Barbie”, and it turns out, the dolls are part of a 500-doll collection made by an Italian artist. It doesn’t sound like the doll is being mass-marketed by Mattel. They’re part of one artist’s collection being sold to raise money for a charity.

The other dolls in the collection appear to be dressed differently. At least one is scantily-clad. Here’s more info and a photo:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/1122/burka-barbie-to-raise-funds-for-save-the-children

Still, Steyn makes a good point: Other writers are hailing the Burka Barbies in this collection as wonderful. Why would it be wonderful to celebrate the subjugation of women?

I’m the owner of a collection of dolls made 35-40 years ago, and each doll is dressed to represent a different country - the United States, Italy, Spain, England, Holland, Germany, China, and so on. It’s a beautiful collection. But, I can’t imagine wanting to own one that includes a doll in a full burka with a slit for the eyes, as if to celebrate life under the Taliban. The doll in my collection representing Germany isn’t dressed to celebrate life under the Nazi regime.

[Impy]

Is Mattel donating 100% of sales to charities that help oppressed women?

They should.

Link doesn’t work BTW

[djf]

New tagline time.

[Rummyfan]

And at an age when Katie Cougar—er, Couric—America’s all-time champion network news-ratings limbo-dancer, is being photographed ill-advisedly doing the lambada at the Christmas office party....

EEEEWWWWW!!!!

[Rummyfan]

Certainly, there’s no danger of Barack Obama ever standing up for the likes of poor Miss Almaleki to a roomful of A-list imams. When it comes to real hate crimes, as opposed to his entirely imaginary epidemic, the president of the United States has smaller cojones than Ken.

Oh man that hurts!

[JLS]

Yep, the line you put in red was what I expected to be among the first Steynisms people mentioned from that column. But sadly it probably does not hurt for a lefty, they pride themselves in being as Limbaugh calls them, the new castrati.

[knews_hound]

Pinging the Steyn list.

Money quote - ""That “Drop Fees” campaign would never dream of dressing up its poster gal as June Cleaver, Donna Reed or any other outmoded sitcom mom in twin-set and pearls. Golly, that would send all sorts of disturbing signals to today’s liberated females, wouldn’t it? What signal is Barbie’s burka sending? That, in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, women were forbidden by law from ever feeling sunlight on their faces? Hey, there’s a positive message for young girls."





Steyn also has a small piece on the Tiger Woods "issue" here -

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWU0YTExOGYwOTY5MTc5M2M4MTA2MTViZDRiMGZjNjU=

On or off, please FReepmail me.

Cheers,

knewshound

knewshounds blog

[LonePalm]

Do they come with little toy stones?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[ravingnutter]

Why would it be wonderful to celebrate the subjugation of women?

Ironically, I jokingly told a store clerk yesterday that I was going to chain a Barbie to the top of my Christmas tree. I hate Barbie with a passion. Researchers once generated a computer model of a woman with Barbie's proportions. They found that her back would be too weak to support the weight of her upper body, and her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and a few centimeters of bowel. A real woman built that way would walk on all fours, suffer from chronic diarrhea and eventually die from malnutrition. I say ban ALL Barbies!

[Lady Jag]

You think? Outside Islam, Snuggies are the current stage of getting us into burkas. Pretty soon they'll be adding hoods and face masks.

[Smokin' Joe]

Oh, and here’s Decapitated Barbie.

Anyone who has had a couple of little girls around the house knows the heads go off sooner or later. It is just a question of when, not necessarily culture...

[marron]

Anyone who has had a couple of little girls around the house knows the heads go off sooner or later.

And if you have boys, there are the obligatory experiments with fire-crackers... :)

[SunTzuWu]

LOL!

Plop.

[HighWheeler]