I'm Not a Doll:
International Barbie Day was celebrated yesterday (Wednesday) in honor of the iconic doll's 63rd birthday.
In honor of the exciting event, Paula Rosenberg decided to post a post about the doll probably the best known in the world, but as always, when it comes to Rosenberg, it was not just another post but one that contained social insights and quite a bit of criticism.
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"Congratulations, Barbie is 63. Thank you for looking very young for her age," Rosenberg opened the post serenely with her picture lying on the floor all covered with Barbie dolls.
"Barbie is not just a doll," she wrote.
"She's a model that many of us grew up on. Since we were little, Barbie told us what a woman can do, because Barbie was a doctor and Barbie a dancer and Barbie a businesswoman, remember? And on the other hand, she told us about an impossible physical model that doesn't exist. Barbie has long legs. "Disproportionate and round and upright chest, fleshy lips and big blue eyes."
"Body image researchers took the original Barbie and translated her measurements into a flesh-and-blood woman's learning," she said.
"The conclusions were that such a woman would have such a low fat percentage that she could not menstruate. A study done on the Barbie doll determined that only one in 100,000 women matched her body model," she wrote.
"Some women have been so influenced by the Barbie doll model that they undergo plastic surgery to resemble it. No matter how you turn it, Barbie teaches girls that you should be skinny, tall, white and blonde," Rosenberg echoed in the critique of the doll.
"Of course I wish Barbie a happy birthday, and at the same time I am happy to see that she is changing and that her friends have more human hips, some of whom are brown-skinned and even have Barbie in a wheelchair. In order for a girl to feel whole with her body, "In advertisements. The change is happening, even if slowly, we are on the way," she concluded the post in an optimistic tone.
The Barbie doll was first unveiled at a toy fair in New York on March 9, 1959, and was named after Barbara, the daughter of the doll's creator, Ruth Handler.
"The whole philosophy of Barbie that guided me," Handler said, "was that through the doll any little girl could be anyone she wanted," she said.
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