What forms a worldview of a child?
Probably everyone being a little kid was sure about
becoming a princess, footballer, hero or a singer in the future. It didn’t
matter that our parents were for example doctors, lawyers or mechanics and had a simple,
common jobs – no, we were born to live in a fairy tale and be heroes or
princesses.
We watched a lot of
cartoons, tales or just family movies where everything was possible. Also we played special toys like Barbie, My Little Ponies or Superman
and Batman, read comics about super heroes like
X-men, Hulk or Spiderman.
All of these things formed our
worldview and our way of thinking. However, most men
already know that they won’t be super heroes, but just engineers. On the other hand,
young women still want to look like
Barbie. They want bigger lips, a narrow waist
and long legs.
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Barbie –
some basic facts
I don’t want you to get bored, so I will present you a
short history of Barbie and some funny facts.
It main
inventor, Margaret Roberts, someday noticed that her little girl plays
with a doll giving it adult features
(then all dolls were produced as babies). She realized that it may be a good
idea to start producing dolls which would look
like adult people. Then Barbie was invented. Her
name – Barbie is a diminutive of inventor’s daughter name – Barbara.
Some facts
- Since 2015 Barbie dolls have been available in 8 different skin colors, 23 hair colors, 22 hair styles, 14 face shapes and 18 eyes colors.
- Barbie didn’t have a navel until 2000
- Barbie has 130 different jobs (a teenage model, stewardess etc.)
Tree change dolls Project
You may have heard about this woman. Her name is Sonia
Singh and she changes doll’s faces into more natural.
You can watch a short film about her here:
In my opinion there is no point in selling Barbie and giving young girls a false vision
of life and of an ideal appearance of a woman. Everyone looks different and not every
woman has an enormous lips, great body,
long hair and long legs. Also not every woman has to do make up as though she was going
to a red carpet party every day. We should let kids realize
people are different and they should look the way they want to.
Do you think it may be a good idea to start selling more natural dolls?
Do you like the way Barbie looks? If not, what would you like to change in her appearance?
If you had a daughter, would you buy her a Barbie doll?
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Comments
Regarding the looks... I never played with Barbie dolls and to be frank I do not really care the way they look. I know my sisters used to play with them when they were little, leaving the dolls all over our home. If I had a daughter myself, I guess I would buy it if she was interested in having one, but this is something I haven't thought about yet.
I think it good idea to start selling more nature dolls because I should show women more realistic models and beauty. Shows little girls with no need to have make-up, have big eyes or long legs to be beautiful. What causes that girls who become women do not have low self-esteem late because are not the same as those idealized dolls. They accept themselves as they are.
Do you like the way Barbie looks? If not, what would you like to change in her appearance?
Now the dolls are similar to our colleagues that show with each of them can be beautiful.
If you had a daughter, would you buy her a Barbie doll?
If I had a daughter I’d buy a doll.
I believe kids are not focus on appearance and just have fun without complex.
But as you said - everyone has his own opinion ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jue_JlxnPGM
I think that producing dolls with realistic proportions, could influence how children in the future will look at the standards of beauty.
Only one irritating thing which I remember about Barbie doll was it's inavailability with different hair colour than blonde. And I really wanted a dark brown-hair girl, just the same as I was/am. Finally I get one, however, I don't remember if it was Barbie doll or just really similar by body proportion brand.
Of course I'd buy my daughter a Barbie doll, they're the prettiest ones.
I can also agree that interactive toys are more interesting for kids, but at some point they may be too obvious or limit kid's imagination. When you play a doll or a teddy bear you have to be creative, because this toy doesn't do anything by itself ;)
We can suspect that many children have chosen the new doll just because it's a new one, but on the other hand they also list many advantages of it, so I think they really like it.
My point wasn't to force production of real dolls instead of Barbie. We can observe that children want to play with dolls witch look less plastic and fake like these showed in a movie.
Secondly I don't think that real doll have to look average, fat or just ugly. It's possible to create less fake doll, but still good looking and nice.
Please it’s just a toy, it’s purpose is to be played with by a child, not to give some false vision of life and appearance of a woman.
Everything might give kids false vision of life, from cereal commercial to fairy tales. Should we also ban “Cinderella”?
It shows false vision of life because not every poor girl will be rescued by a prince charming and live in the castle.
Or maybe we should make it “more natural”, lets make a tale where she is rescued by car tire dealer and live in apartment building in suburbs and work part time as a cleaning lady. It’s more realistic right? But it’s just a tale, it should be unrealistic and fun. That’s all what the childhood is about
When I was a girl I had a few Barbie dolls. And I've grown up absolutely normal. And if I will have a daughter I will buy these dolls for her. The child doesn't think about all this crazy psychological stuff, maybe we also shouldn't?
Come on, this doll is sweet:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2yIGkStXco
I dont understand why Barbie dolls have such an impact on young girls and society. I really like natural Barbie more. Im sure that many girls(and boys too) got depressed because of those unnatural dolls. And it is horrifying. I would like my daughter to play with such a dolls. Children imagine that it is how they should look and it is not fair. Your self-confidence should not be based on how you look. And this is what Barbie dolls do to the society. Im against them.