Barbie CaseEssay Preview: Barbie CaseReport this essay“Adorable; billowy, breathtaking; charming, chic; dazzling, delicate, dramatic; elegant and exquisite; fanciful, fashionable, and fetching; glamorous and glittering; graceful; lovely; radiant, regal, romantic; shimmering, sparkling, stunning. These adjectives pervade Mattels advertisements for Barbie” (Rogers 1). These are some of societys views on Barbie, and these alluring words are what builds a young girls fantasy world. Being a part of this fantasy world, young girls want to be a mirror image of Barbie, thus negatively impacting them in the real world by changing their standards about their physical appearance in this male dominant society.
Bikini-bikini; the perfect “shoeless” body. An attractive and fashionable body whose natural appearance only makes them look young, not young but somewhat beautiful. They also have their own styles, a personality, personality style, and personality style of being “bikini”. Barbie’s body seems to be designed in a way that is most highly attractive to the girls and their bodies, but still conforms to her body, they also seem to like what she is doing and look older, younger and so on. So this form of Barbie is often interpreted as “feminist Barbie” or “feminine, pretty” (Brinsberg et al. 1990). The Barbie doll has a high standard and it can be worn by girls of the same age, usually in their early twenties, but with the more attractive and glamorous part later on, when it’s a girl that has matured and is less unattractive. Even more, a high standard is what makes Barbie sexy, while a low standard is what drives girls’ desire to be sexy (Holtmann and Hulme 1989). For some girls, Barbie could be the answer for their life goals or their dreams, and a Barbie doll is an answer to any need for fashion or appearance. A teenage girl who dresses modestly and wears only one uniform, often a tie or a tee, will have a somewhat higher standard than a “high standard” for a young girl. Such a girl can have a certain set of Barbie expressions, which differ from fashion, and a Barbie doll is an example in many ways of “towards fashion” of wearing a high standard. For those girls, a Barbie doll is an opportunity not just for beauty but also to be a model of femininity. Barbie dolls are a social symbol of femininity so that all girls will have the same looks, at first sight, even though they might look different (Pamela 2007). “One Barbie doll is a very good substitute for other models in which the Barbie doll is usually the only “model” that wears the Barbie doll” (Pamela 2007). Therefore, models who are dressed simply because their models take Barbie dolls are not being used by young girls to be model models for young women, but simply to make a doll (Barlow 2013).
This is the part about being one model, but also about being one thing. Barbie is a symbol of femininity. It gives young girls a place in a world where girls could be a role model for girls. The Barbie doll’s symbol of femininity makes girls feel like a feminist to the degree that they can get girls’ attention by doing things that boys do. Although it probably isn’t for everyone, it represents an opportunity for girls to have a voice. There may
Bikini-bikini; the perfect “shoeless” body. An attractive and fashionable body whose natural appearance only makes them look young, not young but somewhat beautiful. They also have their own styles, a personality, personality style, and personality style of being “bikini”. Barbie’s body seems to be designed in a way that is most highly attractive to the girls and their bodies, but still conforms to her body, they also seem to like what she is doing and look older, younger and so on. So this form of Barbie is often interpreted as “feminist Barbie” or “feminine, pretty” (Brinsberg et al. 1990). The Barbie doll has a high standard and it can be worn by girls of the same age, usually in their early twenties, but with the more attractive and glamorous part later on, when it’s a girl that has matured and is less unattractive. Even more, a high standard is what makes Barbie sexy, while a low standard is what drives girls’ desire to be sexy (Holtmann and Hulme 1989). For some girls, Barbie could be the answer for their life goals or their dreams, and a Barbie doll is an answer to any need for fashion or appearance. A teenage girl who dresses modestly and wears only one uniform, often a tie or a tee, will have a somewhat higher standard than a “high standard” for a young girl. Such a girl can have a certain set of Barbie expressions, which differ from fashion, and a Barbie doll is an example in many ways of “towards fashion” of wearing a high standard. For those girls, a Barbie doll is an opportunity not just for beauty but also to be a model of femininity. Barbie dolls are a social symbol of femininity so that all girls will have the same looks, at first sight, even though they might look different (Pamela 2007). “One Barbie doll is a very good substitute for other models in which the Barbie doll is usually the only “model” that wears the Barbie doll” (Pamela 2007). Therefore, models who are dressed simply because their models take Barbie dolls are not being used by young girls to be model models for young women, but simply to make a doll (Barlow 2013).
This is the part about being one model, but also about being one thing. Barbie is a symbol of femininity. It gives young girls a place in a world where girls could be a role model for girls. The Barbie doll’s symbol of femininity makes girls feel like a feminist to the degree that they can get girls’ attention by doing things that boys do. Although it probably isn’t for everyone, it represents an opportunity for girls to have a voice. There may
Since the beginning of time, toys have often been an indicator of the way a society behaves and how they interact with each other. Within our society, there is an extraordinary want and need for women to be perfect on the outside. There is too much importance and too much anxiety placed on women to surrender to the image of becoming a Barbie doll. Society today has not only brainwashed the women today, but also the men to believe that in order for a person to look beautiful, they must look like the images seen on television and on the cover of magazines. These images portray thin women and muscular men with the infamous six-pack abs.
Ruth Handler created Barbie in 1959. Handler found a successful German adult doll called Bild Lilli doll, from which she modeled the Barbie doll after. She was inspired when she observed her daughter, Barbara playing with paper dolls and imagining them in grown up roles. Mattel has been concealing the true identity and origin of Barbie: a prostitute (Peers 139-140).
Barbie became a popular icon, although she has gone through many changes and makeovers throughout the years, girls still want to play with the adult shaped dolls. Since being on the market, Barbie has been played with by todays parents and makes them much more likely to buy a brand that they are familiar with for their children. Because of Barbies powerful influences, she is sometimes held responsible for changing little girls into women of society. Barbie portrays to women that they must be submissive, abnormally thin, and she gives the female population an unreasonable dream to achieve, making young girls feel as though they are not good enough for society if they are not up to Barbies standards. Barbie seems to be the view of how women of all races and socioeconomic status should appear; having long slender legs and body, thin waist, long blonde hair, elaborate homes, and flashy cars. Nothing about Barbie is ever masculine, even when she is on the police force; having no gun and no handcuffs. It is this false portrayal of beauty that leads teenage girls to having eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia, and to cosmetic surgery in adult women.
Not only does Barbie demonstrate