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"Barbie's Got A New Body"
Time.com ^ | 2016 Jan. 28 | Eliana Dockterman

Posted on 01/28/2016 3:10:20 PM PST by hawaiianninja

Quote: "MATTEL RELEASES THREE NEW BODY SHAPES FOR THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING DOLL. INSIDE THE BIGGEST CHANGE IN BARBIE'S 57-YEAR HISTORY--AND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT AMERICAN BEAUTY IDEALS"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: barbie; barbiedoll; mattel
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To: hawaiianninja

I swear I read Barbie’s got a new bootie.


41 posted on 01/28/2016 4:12:20 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftidsts s the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: Iron Munro

“We’ll just get you the Michelle Obama doll, dear. It costs less, and it’s just as good.”


42 posted on 01/28/2016 4:15:28 PM PST by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: gorush

Heh. Most underrated cartoonist ever.


43 posted on 01/28/2016 4:21:38 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: hawaiianninja
Mattel should have paid more attention to surveys like this if they really wanted a doll that was acceptable to everyone:
44 posted on 01/28/2016 4:22:06 PM PST by GizmosAndGadgets ( Government big enough to take away your light bulbs is big enough to do any damn thing it wants to.)
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Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

click and support them

45 posted on 01/28/2016 4:27:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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To: COBOL2Java

Man....that’s funny stuff..! :)


46 posted on 01/28/2016 4:29:07 PM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: hawaiianninja

They need to give fat girls someone to look up to.

47 posted on 01/28/2016 4:36:55 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Don't call them Daesh OR ISIS or ISIL, they are always "ISLAMIC State.")
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To: LottieDah

Exactly. My daughter had Barbies and not once did she even consider that the doll was a model for how she should look. She just liked changing the clothes, etc. I’d say the recent push back against the original doll is from the moms (probably SJW types) who are pissed they don’t look like that (as if any woman could).


48 posted on 01/28/2016 4:43:38 PM PST by reegs
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To: Still Thinking

“The correct response to PC-Nazis is to be MORE un-PC, till they learn it’s better to live and let live. “

Klaus Barbie?


49 posted on 01/28/2016 4:44:17 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (The Trump/Cruz war is a media generated war so the establishment can stay in power.)
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To: reegs

When Twiggy was all the rage in the 1960s it was impossible for girls with meat on their bones to look good in those cute Carnaby Street fashions. I think all that body conscious stuff came in the 1970s when femnists started jaw jacking about body image.


50 posted on 01/28/2016 4:49:03 PM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: rlmorel

That’s funny.


51 posted on 01/28/2016 4:54:35 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Right Wing Assault

Seriously? I JUST ate dinner, for crying out loud. Almost made a reappearance on my plate!


52 posted on 01/28/2016 4:55:48 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Ouderkirk

G I JOE vs Ken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdFKcETEPg


53 posted on 01/28/2016 5:13:58 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: JoeProBono

Muslim Barbie! So beautiful she comes with a bag over head as standard equipment!


54 posted on 01/28/2016 5:15:57 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

There will be a lot of fat, bare-naked, headless Barbies floating around back yards (likely dog chewed).


55 posted on 01/28/2016 5:18:56 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: LottieDah

I think the Twiggy craze hit in there somewhere. All of a sudden, girls were trying to look like planks on toothpicks in a dress.


56 posted on 01/28/2016 5:21:10 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

You are correct about that. It was a horror show being chubby in those days.


57 posted on 01/28/2016 5:22:57 PM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: hawaiianninja; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; ...
Re: "Barbie's Got A New Body"

Gadzooks-- I liked... the old one!

Gee, Bendy, I wonder what'll they do... with the old one?

Boy, I sure could use... a new one!

58 posted on 01/28/2016 5:27:40 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Someone is bringing them food....

just saying.

59 posted on 01/28/2016 5:28:59 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: hawaiianninja

Nobody will buy these especially the feminists that pushed for them.


60 posted on 01/28/2016 5:33:07 PM PST by Kenny500c
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