Barbie as a Real Woman is Anatomically Impossible Essays -- Female Ide

Millions of girls around the world are dressing their Barbie dolls in thin designer outfits and high heel shoes, and slide her slender legs into a magnificent pink convertible next to her male counterpart, Ken. These same girls will wish into the mirror, staring at their thighs and hair, and attempt to balance themselves in a couple up of their mothers high heel shoes. They will wonder wherefore they do not look like Barbie. They will wonder today, sightly as I wondered years ago. As the years of make-believe with the American plastic icon of girlhood nostalgia passed, I discovered Barbies enigmatical effects. Although Barbie lent herself to fond memories of childhood, she also influenced my early ideal image of the female person body. As I began to realize Barbies false representation of a real woman, I dis...