B!TC# IT OUT!

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Good luck, Adalira!!

Also, Kelda. People like that suck.

And to Kelly, we all love you, girl.

EDIT: found the specific image Kelly was talking about. Almost disregard below. That doll hardly looks plus sized! Now I'm mad. Marketing a commonly had, healthy body as plus sized is just wrong, nor is it a socially forward action. All it's doing is enforcing the idea that Original Barbie is beautiful, and healthy is not. :soapbox:

Now for what I originally said on the topic.
And also to Kelly. I def think big is beautiful, and plus-sized Barbie needs to be a thing. My concern about Barbie has been party her too-idealized figure giving young girls a poor self image, but moreover that the example she cast was an unhealthy one. A girl would stop having her period if she tried to make herself look like Barbie, just in terms of having too little fat on their bodies. The plus-sized doll I saw is the other extreme, and doesn't promote health any more than the original Barbie does. And as much as I think big is physically attractive, I am aware that our generation is the first EVER RECORDED to have a shorter life-expectancy than our parents, largely due to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. All three of those diseases run in my family, and I very well might have Brca 1, a gene that makes those chances tenfold, so I'm a bit of a health nut.

So while plus-sized Barbie should be a thing, I think Barbie should ALSO go in for a doll of more Lamilly-like proportions. Which is an achievable figure, on top of being one that many women have.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I do like however how they are introducing more ethnic Barbies with more shapes.

[PearlieMae]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...128-story.html

[Sabrina the Selkie]

It is a good thing.

[Mermaid Wesley]

The curvy body type is really close to mine and it's very exciting! I was one of those little girls who thought she was ugly because she didn't have a tiny waist and hourglass figure at like... 10. Now I do have an hourglass figure but the original Barbie proportions are nowhere close to me. The new Barbie actually isn't plus size(I don't think), I would say she's like an 8-10 which is like... Average human. But next to Barbie she looks much larger.

I'm also stoked about the range of races they offer now. MAYBE THEY'll MAKE A MERMAID LINE AGAIN I WOULD BE SO PUMPED.


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[Ashton]

I think it is a good move on their part. But I don't understand (in some aspects) how ppl can say that Barbie is unrealistic--
--dude she has had like all the jobs you can ever even think of? If anything she is smart and can be anything!
Why look at her body when you can look at that sexy brain!

[Sabrina the Selkie]

That is true, Ashton. Barbie dolls have been sold in sets promoting every career you could think of, but the issue is that apparently little girls look at Barbie and think, subconsciously, perhaps, "that is what I need to look like to be successful." If a real woman look like Barbie - and a few have gotten the jobs to make the proportions as close as possible - that's their prerogative, and I would never shame them for it, but as a doll, marketed to children, it's problematic. You know?

During my childhood, my best friend and I were terrible for each other's self esteem.

I'm slim, so she thought she was fat. To the point where she became bulimic.

She has gorgeous curves and a lithe, jaguar-esque body, so I thought I was a stick.

Her brother and I have the same brand of bookish intellect, so she thought she was stupid. To this day she acts like I'm the smart one, but she was taking college level anatomy in 6th grade. Like please.

She has this extremely street-smart attitude, to boot, so I always felt inept at life, just because she handled stuff so well. I was caught up in the books I read, so confronted with her iron nosed sense, I felt inadequate. It was worsened by her brother who was sensible in similar ways, making him a generally more well-adjusted nerd than I am.

All of this was exacerbated by the images, like Barbie, we were bombarded with. I never really bought into that, but my friend was clearly victimized by a looks-oriented society. Her strong, curvaceous body made her feel fat compared to models, and compared to me, even though I'm no where near as skinny as what we see in magazines.

Basically, we both held the other to be the ideal, and it was ruinous to our self-esteems. Of course, we never said this to each other, so it amounted to giving each other inspirational speeches whenever one of us felt down. And then we both got over ourselves.

We were lucky. Neither one of us let these image problems get in the way of our friendship, but if we weren't quite so mentally resilient as we are, our friendship may have suffered for it.

I dunno. I never thought of Barbie as being part of the problem when I was dealing with the problems, and she may not have been for me, but I know she IS for many girls. Growing up is hard enough as it is.

[SeaGlass Siren]

i was the wierd one with no friends at school and i'd read the dolphin diaries books and want to be a marine biologist. my mom would call me the most prettiest of her daughters, but she kept saying how inept i was at life so...... she bought me a barbie one time thinking i'd like it but i wanted the mermaid doll at the disneystore :P

[Ashton]

Yes I understand that the barbie 'body type' can lead to negative body images. And by all means we need to have people feel confident and fight the body shaming and hatred that has become a weird part of society.

But what is weird to me is that we focus so much on how we look like rather than what is on the inside. I have be noticing that more and more doll and toy commercials are having tag lines like "Smart is the NEW COOL" and I am all for that!

[Calizaire]

My bitch: just finished our taxes. Now I have to decide if I tell hubby the bottom line right away or let him enjoy his weekend then hit him with the number on Monday...

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Ouch, Calizaire.

[PearlieMae]

Monday. It's not going to change between now and then, and if he has a bad weekend, so will you.

[Calizaire]

Monday. It's not going to change between now and then, and if he has a bad weekend, so will you.

Agreed the situation will be just as sucky come Monday...but I don't like that, "I know something you don't know!" feeling either.
I think I'll bring home a bottle of Scotch and make sure he has at least two before I broach the topic. Maybe throw in a sexual favor.

[PearlieMae]

I was just coming back to say that very thing! Except, do the scotch thing/sex thing Sunday evening, then tell him.

[Calizaire]

I was just coming back to say that very thing! Except, do the scotch thing/sex thing Sunday evening, then tell him.

Ha! Solid plan!

[Merman Arion]

I was just coming back to say that very thing! Except, do the scotch thing/sex thing Sunday evening, then tell him.

I agree. I'm pretty sneaky too and I prefer to enjoy the sex first and then tell the bad news

[SeaGlass Siren]

LOL.

[Calizaire]

I prefer the sex after the bad news. Then I forget how bad the bad news is.

[Merman Arion]

I prefer the sex after the bad news. Then I forget how bad the bad news is.

Do it my way. Sex first. Bad news after. THEN sex again.

You get sex twice AND forget the bad news. Double Win-win

[PearlieMae]

Arion has a point. Two of them, actually. But it has been my experience that bad news can be...um...deflating. Then there's new bad news.