The UGLY TRUTH Of Barbie...
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Barbie might be a hot property right now, but I'm taking the heat to it in this video, conducting a deep dive on the brand as well as its creator company, Mattel. Here, we'll go through just a few of the largest controversies and scandals that Barbie has seen in her 59 year lifespan...
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Sex Doll Origins
03:20 - Devil By Design
07:02 - The Weight Of Influence
11:33 - A Financial Incentive
14:33 - The Price Of Plastic
20:16 - Outro
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emotionally abusive family members and schoolmates made me feel worse about my appearance than any plastic doll could ever do
True to that sister!
want to bet the girls who had issues with their looks most likey had their family or others pick on their appearance.
@@MaddCrazyMee most likely but they still looked better than me
Sending support ya’lls way
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Barbie never made me feel fat and ugly. She helped me have a voice and tell stories, she was my friend!
Toxic 2000s celebrity culture made me feel worthless. TV shows like Extreme Makeover and Next Top Model, all those glossy magazines, they were a problem. Barbie dolls are just an easy scapegoat for the media to latch on to so they don't have to look at their own flaws.
I can't be the only one who really did not compare herself to a plastic doll that was not meant to be realistic to begin with...
And also, for boys we have he-man and all those hyper-muscular male video game characters. Those UnReAlIsTiC bEaUtY sTaNdArDs do go both ways.
I think he knows, but the video is about barbies.
@@I_Eat_Lemons yes but it barely briefly mentioned
Unless he's planning similar for the other end. No clue either way but would be nice to see both sides be seen instead of just one
I guess we're the odd ones out, though to me it says a lot about the kids parents, since what are the kids parents doing to make the kid compare their own body to a toy, never looked at my barbie dolls and thought I want to look like that.
I’ve never wanted to look like a toy but I’ve definitely wanted to look like tv and movie stars when I was a kid growing up. I am a male though.
@@roonkolos Seems it could be a possibility.
people talk about how "oh little girls wanna look like Barbie because they play with them", ever played with Thomas the Tank Engine, I don't wanna look like that man
😂
and I would know; watching Shed 17 and Project G-1... good lord.
Speak for yourself, I wanna be a train
Don't let the Japanese Thomas fans hear you say that
and why is that? :0
I grew up watching the barbie movies from the early 2000’s (Island Princess, Rapunzel, Mariposa, Princess and the Pauper, etc,) and Ill just say, even though Barbie doesn’t have the best history, and didn’t tech the greatest of messages to young girls way back in the day, the 2000’s movies had a significant impact on my childhood, my love for animals and my love for singing. It’s just…so crazy how much times have changed 😭
My fav was Barbie and the diamond castle
Princess and the pauper was a goated film!!!!
I’ve been bingeing them recently 😂 my sister and I used to love watching them! They were so goofy
@@lotuslabyrinth666 some of the girls in my family including me have Barbie Movie Nights where we rewatch all the Barbie movies we grew up watching together now that we’re older, it’s a lot of fun :)
I still collect them. Missing only a few. Only getting the 2000's early 2010's ones tho
The moral of barbie is that you can literally be a astronaut president and people will still only focus on your looks
Sooooo true
I absolutely LOVED barbie when growing up, I watched every single movie. But growing up as a dark haired & tanned girl it definitely didn't helped my insecurities in my teen years ☠️
Totally agree! It may just be the #1 reason why I used to want blonde hair and blue eyes so bad as a kid 😕😅
@@lilacskies9493pure aryan beauty 😍
Bild Lilli wasn’t a sex doll. She was a collectible figure of an adult oriented comic book character.
he literally said she wasn’t a sex doll
@@graceannamariahe did in the opening
@@Razzberry_dollz seen as one but wasn’t one
Trueee!! People over exaggerate that "barbie was based on a sex doll" but in reality she much of a novelty toy or a gag gift. Bild Lili also later on become popular amongst children and have other have other accessories add for the dolls because of if popularity. Darling Dollz made a video here about her highly recommended
Agreed. Tired of the lies. DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Barbie never made me feel insecure. What made me insecure was my dad. Barbie was a way for me to express myself
Interesting you should mention how action figures for boys also have unrealistic body proportions. As a 36-year old male, I have a somewhat stocky body with relatively short legs, and it's only recently struck me how much my body proportions resemble a 1980s "He-Man/Masters of the Universe" action figure, only a bit less muscly and a lot more flabby.
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It wasn’t Barbie’s fault, it’s society for making her that way.
So technically, Barbie’s a victim too.
Honestly, the "skinny cartoon characters will make our children starve themselves" is pretty dumb imo, as a little girl when I saw Winx for example, my brain went automatically "aha, this is an artstyle thing, this is how theese characters look on paper so they look cool but if there was a portal for them to our world and they went through it, theyd definitly have a different physique like a normal person"
You know what did make me feel bad about my body thought? Adult actors playing "teenagers " in movies, also my classmates who made fun of me made me feel bad about myself
Jokes on you, I never had Barbies because we were poor😂 but seriously, I don't think I felt any body standard pressures until like my preteen-teen years. Dolls never bother me because they weren't real. It was the pressures of society
Some stuff to unpack here
1. Lilli dolls are more comparable to collectible figurines today. Is a figure of Hatsune Miku a sex doll? No, it’s just a novelty.
2. Calling Barbie sexist has unfortunate implications. Saying someone is lesser for preferring traditionally feminine is implying that femininity is lesser. Is it shallow to only shop? Perhaps, but need we be reminded that Barbie is a fashion doll and the fashion is the focal point.
Moreover it’s pretty annoying how the biggest haters of Barbie treat as an enemy of feminism. Yet she is a pretty good feminist figure- she can encompass the entire female experience- she could be a shopaholic stay at home wife or she could be a professional no nonsense politician. There’s nothing stating that you HAVE to see Barbie as a fashionista only.
It’s the fallacy I see echoed by misguided Im not like the other girls feminists that women are expected to only shop. That hasn’t been the case for a few decades and you can see pushback on that kind of style in movies in the 90s.
Idk I just feel like we should empower women to embrace themselves and acknowledge that we’re not one dimensional. Actual women aren’t made of plastic yknow
(PS if your Barbie is nonbinary or is trans, more power to you.)
I think barbie has very healthy messaging, personally. Especially nowadays! I love how barbie is portrayed as both feminine AND powerful! She's not got a tomboy edge or any contrivance, she's just feminine! I think a lot of people are misguided on who actually liked barbie. I (a trans man, ill add) grew up with monster high, because I always preferred the self-expression and grunge, but I got why people would like barbie. The audience for barbie is people who are feminine! There's nothing wrong with having barbie be feminine because that's the target audience :)
I used to believe barbie was so bad for little kids during my young sjw years, I tried blaming her for my eating issues when all my issues came from the people around me treating me invisible because of my weight, and now that I've grown up a bit I'm realizing it's way more how people around you treat you that influences your self confidence, more than a doll. My self view issues came from growing up in a predominantly white area and not having any healthy black/woc role models. Not a doll. I feel like some of those women haven't fully realized that.
I feel like another reason I hated Barbie so much is bc I was denying my own feminity, I was trying to repress it for various reasons, and I feel like a lot of ppl and women who are doing the same, probably take it out on stereotypical feminine things and characters.
I agree we need to acknowledge that we're not one dimensional, we don't exist in bubbles, no ones more special than someone else for rejecting feminity for themselves. Just support girls and women being what and how they wanna be. Support them if they wanna be a shopaholic fashionista, support them if they wanna dark and alt and reject feminity. Just support people when they aren't hurting others or themselves. (Sadly I must state being trans is not hurting themselves and they need to be supported even more honestly)
I had Barbies (and other dolls) that were frilly princesses, athletic gymnasts, tomboyish veterinarians, girly-girls, sexy businesswomen, and freaking mermaids. The idea that Barbie is promoting one type of standard is absolutely absurd.
it's manufactured by horrifically abused workers, many of whom are women. that's explicitly anti-feminist
I'm a huge toy fan and collector- and I especially love dolls (Monster High, Barbie, you get the gist) so seeing a youtuber I love discuss this topic makes me so happy.
Also, for clarification I do NOT support mettel currently. Until they start treating employees better, I will be buying used dolls instead.
Needs a part two, and any deep dive on Barbie should surely also briefly consider the sindy doll, action man and Ken
I'm biracial and my mom used to buy me white and black dolls, she said I always played with the white dolls and when she asked me why I won't play with the black ones I told her "Because she's purple".... I've always been closer to my mom's side (white side) so I remember feeling like something was wrong with me or I didn't fit in cause I was darker, I would see these beautiful white dolls and wish I looked like them. Then in school I was told I act "too white" it really messed up my self image for a longtime.
I am mixed and my mum is white. Unfortunately she didn't realise she was buying me only white Barbies, also they were the ones more available in my country and put forward in commercials. It messed up with my self image too. I can totally relate. Because of that, I don't like Barbie that much.
I’m an adult male doll collector (I grew up on dolls and still buy them, so I know a few things you didn’t mention), which many doll brands are consumed by adults just as much as children do; we have money to buy them, so it’s pretty understandable. The big thing about Barbie dolls is that Mattel has people with their hands in the business, which means that Barbie’s can be made cheaper or not as nice as other dolls (say like potato sack clothes, because many of the dolls have printed on designs, including pockets and such), which basically ignores consumer’s criticisms on the quality of the dolls over people who make decisions that blatantly go against them (they can also set the price of the dolls as well). While MGA (who make Bratz, Lol, and Rainbow High dolls) don’t have these people, which shows, because, for example, say a Rainbow High has a line come out and Barbie Extra, they RH dolls has high quality clothing, 2 sets of shoes, a bag, some other separate accessories, and maybe a second outfit, while the B.E. dolls has one outfit, a purse, 1 set of shoes, a statue pet, and literally nothing more, but both are between 25-35 dollars (dolls cost more for the price of plastic rising), it shows how this system really effects the quality of Barbies. On the subject of MGA, Bratz was originally designed by a creator under Mattel, but more like a side idea when he went home, part-time working for Mattel at that time, but never taken to Mattel and pitched. So later he pitched it to MGA, which they made and then Mattel wanted to stop it, because Barbie’s weren’t doing so hot. That’s why Myscene basically copied Bratz. Even before that, Gem and The Holograms was coming out in the 80’s and Mattel rushed out Barbie and The Rockers to literally throw off Gem’s sales. Mattel is messed up and while I buy from them, I find them to be messed up and literally, most their big lines or big creations were ripped off. Also, and I hate to say it, Barbie isn’t a great brand. They are cheap by modern standards, they are a little over priced, lack quality and creativity, and literally tanked other dolls brands in the company (Monster High and Ever After High for example) to make sure Barbie, a household name, kept afloat. Mattel is trashy and I respect Isaac Larian for dragging Mattel through the mud.
I'm also an adult male doll collector and I also grew up on Barbies. I haven't bought one in my adulthood except for an older one from the 90s that I found at a collectors shop and yeah... Modern Barbie dolls are not that great in comparison to LOL dolls. It makes me sad cuz there's so many kinds of Barbies that didn't exist when I was a kid and now there's all kinds of colors of Barbie dolls. It's sad but I always wonder if Mattel will ever change for the better cuz maaaan. They really need to up their game and stop being so awful.
@@monkeymita Yeah, like I like Barbie, and even back a decade ago, like life in the dream house was the last Barbie line with pretty decent quality. If I were the, I’d reboot maybe MyScene or Generation Girl, which have characters and marry Made To Move bodies and the different sizes to give the characters personalities and a sense of fashion. And have some lines for budget dolls (the fashionista dolls are ok for the price, especially marketed for younger children), that way it’s not just one thing, but yeah, they don’t have doll lines really and the ones they have are crappy and overpriced in my opinion.
As a girl never played with Barbie. Only used the off brand stuff.😂
The impact that Barbie had on me was I grew my blonde hair long to be like her. It looked so good & just like hers 😢
I'm a biracial woman and my sisters and I NEVER played with Barbie when we were young. However my parents bought us Black dolls and I'm so glad bc this with my parents teaching us to be proud of who we are and our background since we were very little, we've always looked at Black ppl & other POC as beautiful 😊
Even as a woman, I never played with Barbies as a kid. Honestly, I never really liked dolls back then, and I still don't. But hearing about how they're still being made in sweatshops even today makes me kind of glad I didn't. Very interesting deep dive, and I think there should definitely be a part two.
I grew up with bionicle, star trek, and my plushie parrot and snake. I wasn't a girly girl person and saw barbie as a bit of a nuisance
I absolutely loved Barbie growing up! Every new movie or doll whrn released back in the day my dad would buy it for me. For me I never saw myself into the doll or ever thought about me wanting to look like her, i was always chubby as a little girl with black hair and never did it cross my mind of me having body issues when little not even when Bratz came along.
I dont remember little girls attempting to inflate their heads to look like bratz dolls
honestly they sucked majorly but have definitely improved. i know the whole "beauty standards pretty girl" thing can seem damaging and can be damaging to some but its also a message of stereotypical blondes not just being dumb. shes had every job on the earth
I'm a woman who grew up playing with Barbies, watching Barbie movies, etc, and now, in my late 30s, I even still collect Barbie dolls. I just want to say that my dolls, just like any other toys, mostly used to play, pretend, to play out something that came from my imagination, fantasies, etc. So I never really expect my dolls to be realistic, nor look like me. I don't need them to represent my appearance or most people, I LOVE that my dolls are very beautiful and over the top because that's part of the fun. Even as a child, I knew that. Well, this is just my opinion and experience playing with Barbies, maybe different from other people.
Thank you so much for covering this topic! While I'm sure Barbie had some sort of impact on how I felt about my body, the real impact was on my desire to pursue a career in Science. I had the "Math Class is Tough" Barbie. That, coupled with the direct mocking of my interest in Science, that I was "too stupid" for Science, as well as being told "Men don't want to date women smarter than them" really held me back and made me feel terrible about myself. Luckily, they were right, to an extent... it turned out I was "too stupid" to believe them, and finally went on to obtain an advanced degree in biochemistry from a very prestigious university. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that children's toys are made within our societal framework of expectations and can greatly reinforce those expectations, whether positive or negative. I know it did for me, although I don't regret playing with Barbie.I would like to believe our societal expectations for young girls and boys has changed for the better, but I think we still have a long way to go.
I had around 15 Barbies growing up, my first one bought for me at age 6, in 1994. At no point did I ever think that she was what I was supposed to look like. She was just a toy. I rarely changed their clothes and constantly lost their shoes. I spent more time setting up the furniture and lining them up to play teacher. I think it might have been my upbringing by parents who made sure I understood the difference between fantasy and reality (such as I never believed in Santa, never crushed on tv/movie characters till middle/high school, etc.). I loved that saccharine sweet pink Barbie aisle in the toy department as a kid, but now as an adult, it just looks uncomfortable and silly. I mostly see them as collectors items now.
Even as a woman personally, I always found the "impossible body standard" argument a bit... silly at best. I DO get the reasoning but... didn't boys grow up with He-Man and GI Joe and such? Wouldn't all that be very similar? Or do people still ignore that aspect for the sake of convenience
Again, I do sorta understand where the idea comes from but even as a child, when i looked at a toy, I didn't see real people or such. I saw fun time to let my imagination and when I was done, so did all that until next time. I dunno, maybe I'm somehow the odd one in all thag. Which is fine, I guess
to me makes me wonder how the young girls parents are treating them, comments by my own sister on my weight made me more self-conscious then my barbie dolls did.
The fact you put that "What the hell is even that!?" in had me rotfl
The whole toy industry has a problem with workers and the way the products are made, plus it's an ocean of plastic.... It's not just Mattel.
Please do a part 2!! This video was so interesting to learn about!
Plus, boy stereotypes are just as nuts, but people don’t pay attention to them.
As a feminist, I apologize to all men for getting hated on. Remember folks, it’s about the BALANCE of genders, not overthrowing men.
The factory conditions are just standard for ever industry where the production is shipped to places like china and Bangladesh and almost everything you described is common place in those factories.
My Godzilla Doll as a kid gave me an inferiority complex "How could I ever be as amazing as Godzilla? I'll never have that body type?!"
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I feel like you cannot be speaking for all the girls on the body thing. I never thought I had to look like my Barbie dolls or ever after high dolls. I thought they were pretty and liked their outfits but I never thought I was meant to look like that. The problem isn't Barbie, it's people telling girls to look a certain way. I mean I played with Lalaloopsy dolls as a kid and I didn't think I was supposed to have a giant head and button eyes, did I? And old Barbie movies taught me so many important lessons. I would say Barbie dolls positively impacted my life more than any of the toys I played with, and to reduce that to just being about a doll's body is ridiculous.
“Now let's forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream.”
Absolutely hate it when people who aren't in the doll community make videos about dolls cause they ALWAYS get things wrong. I'm only 3 minutes in and there's already misinformation.
Can u tell me the parts where there's misinformation?? Not trying to say ur wrong, I just genuinely wanna know
@@gossipkitty69 I need to go to bed bc I have school tomorrow. I will let you know tomorrow.
I think that many of these studies are flawed; I had Barbies, played with Barbies, watched the Barbie movies and everythgin but I never compared myself to her or wanted to have her looks; rather I was often bullied by other people because of my looks and Barbie as a child was my comfort. I think these studies tend to not look at other factors such as what kids learn at home, school and etc. I was bullied my whole life and never wanted to look like a doll; but these kids do after only spending 3 minutes playing with them? That's ridiculous... Like how do you know if the parents aren't the ones putting these expectations on them, or their colleges? Teachers? Etc? Also, why do only girls suffer this pressure but boys don't when they are haneded far worse body expectations such like per example Thor, Hulk and stuff; why do these types of studies are always about girls and not boys? Oh, because girls are more "affected because they care more about self esteem and stuff" okay, but why?? We evolved as a society, now girls and boys seem to have equal oportunies and such and many women and young girls are more insecure than ever, and we have diversity in music, art, movies and everything and they are still unhappy; I think the problem lies way deeper than that... I think the problem is probably standard put on women by other women, or by people around them? I don't know... I think this idea that a DOLL can influence a person whole peraonality and life is really stupid... I watched MLP growing up and I never tried to kill people with rainbows, or try to turn a person into stone... That's just dumb. Good video and all, but I think you're just repeating points that most people say instead of going deeper into the missing details. I still fail to see a video where people adress all these problems related to Barbie and give an answer besides: "is the doll's fault"
even if they were influenced some what take into consideration too that barbie had over 250 careers, has a boyfriend, a dream house, tons of clothes, canoonically 46 pets including pandas, and so many cars and means of transportation,and literally the freedom to do what she pleased, that is what really influenced me, I didn't want to look like because to even get to barbie standard would take not only ungodly amounts of phyiscal work but surgery to get the body proportions down, I wanted her lifestyle the ability to do what ever I wanted at a drop of a hat with unlimited potential, and have people like me for me, and not what i can do for them.
Love your content man! I grew up watching Barbie, but I was way too naive to know any of the dark stuff at the time. Honestly i think my child brain just liked all the pink.
I didnt even realize how skinny barbie was until i was in fifth grade when i just saw a naked barbie and was like “damn thats a tiny waist!!” But it didnt make me feel bad or anything, i kinda disregarded it.
Also, i was a huge monster high girlie in elementary school as early as 1st grade and those were even skinnier but i just never noticed or focused on that. I just thought they were cool, fun dolls
Barbie is a big part of my childhood and made me who I am today. There weren't that many female hero movies back in the day as a kid. So I grew up on Barbie being my heroine. Especially with Barbie and the Three Musketeers and the Fairytopia trilogy. I'm Mexican so I look nothing like Barbie. But that didn't mean I didn't relate to her or not love her as a character. I don't think it made me feel insecure either, I personally don't think a character needs to look like you and be your race to feel represented. Barbie was a female and I was a female and that was enough for me.
When I look at a Barbie doll, I get uncomfortable, the still, (kinda) creepy smile to me is weird.
oh yay more background audio!!
As a kid my brunette/red head dolls were the ones I saw myself as, the blondes were the mean girl, and everyone else was friendly. I’m 27. So idk maybe they need to do that study again. There could be more to it, like lived experience (I’m a red head, my bullies were blonde, my friends were of all hair colors and skin tones) than purely just internalized racism.
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I only got Barbie’s for the pets, and accessories; LPS was my childhood and I used the accessories from Barbie for them. 👍
have you talked about the nestle company? Ive heard a bunch of stuff about them
Yeah I've never felt bad about myself playing with a Barbie..... side note pregnant Barbie was the worst thing ever
I used to have a barbie doll along with the dream house. Honestly as a kid I thought her body figure looked weird. Not as a doll but I just thought "Someone would look really weird like this in real life"
But I was never into playing with dolls anyway, I just did it because I just thought that's what girls were supposed to be into. (Plus my mom spent money on it and I felt bad for rarely playing with it)
In short: I was too much of a realist to actually be affected, found dolls boring, and didn't find anything so unrealistic interesting.
I was born a girl and have played with barbies and stuff my whole life. I believe that Barbie dolls most definitely effected effected on how I view my body today. I'm 18 years old now and I still find myself staring at Barbie's body wanting to be her shape and size. Not even just Barbie, but many of tv shows that feature women with "perfect" body types also greatly effect/have effected me. I'm 100% sure this is the same for dudes, too. Also that racism study... I'm a lightskinned black girl. My dad is black, mom's hispanic. I have very pronounced black features tho, like the 4c hair and bigger lips. But I used to want to be lighter SO BAD because of like, Barbie dolls and the cartoon girls on tv and the kids who bullied me because of my features because I genuinely thought that to be pretty I had to be skinny, white, and have straight blonde hair. Honestly how would we even fix these issues today?
Less media like that. Barbie has been correcting the body issues thing since 2016, thankfully. To me, before that she was the thing everyone used to avoid talking about the actual problem, which was the absolute bullshit media around telling people that they had to look like barbie, or they had to look thin or be white to be accepted or wanted.
In Depth fascinating analysis on the History of the Barbie doll fashion Line it has a weird and Strange Origin story
It was kind of incorrect, but the story is actually very interesting indeed.
That chain and rings are peak Briish 'person' fashion
'person' 💀💀💀
IM A BARBIE GIRL IN A BARBIE WORLD
not really it might also be the environment that the girls grew up in. there is also comparisons to barbies for boys.think another part is needed. also maybe do one on the effect of male dolls on boys.
I mean, all factories are miserable place and everything we use in the Western World is made in a factory in a country with loose human rights laws.
I think we should make the rounder rolls wear attractive and/or trendy clothes so it will make people desire chubby girls more.
Plus, the large features like a big 🍑 and big 🍒s aren’t very common on skinny girls, but are very easy to find on bigger girls, so since Barbie is meant to be attractive, let’s do that to bigger dolls.
You mentioned a male equivalent to body issues little girls might get from Barbies and I'd wager it's superheroes/action heroes, -especially the live action ones. It's no secret that for one good shirtless scene, male actors will starve, overwork, and dehydrate themselves to give the illusion of bulging, veiny muscles for thirty seconds. A lot of impressionable kids are going to assume that's achievable for them. I'm curious if anyone has looked into it.
It’s manufactured in similar ways as many other big brands, particularly the clothing industry (including accessories and shoes)
Underpaid, mistreated workers that oftentimes don’t have any other option. If it’s not outright modern slavery then it’s pretty close to it
I had one barbie doll growing up, it wasn’t the boring blonde one though, it was darker and prettier. Would fight with my blonde sister over wanting that one rather than the boring one and that’s pretty much my memories of it. Well apart from when the French Revolution came because turns out you can’t put their heads back on so blondie ended up getting a funeral, very fitting considering that we were clearly getting too old to play with them anyway, taking inspiration from our history textbooks. Barbie and the guillotine lol
I have more memories of playing with snow than with the dolls, playing outside was more fun when you were a little kid, sledding and climbing trees or even fishing later on > barbie dolls
what do u expect from a company from the 50s
Thanks for the deep dive! I find brand history fascinating and worth giving my eyeball real-estate to.
I feel like Superhero action figures and movies may be equivalent of negative body image for boys
On the last chapter, you should make a video on the exploits of labour.
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When I was a young girl(like 20 years ago), I preferred darker skinned characters and dolls. I remember my favorite barbie was a darker type of barbie, and my favorite bratz doll was Nevera(the dynamite edition) and my favorite witch was Taranee. I have no clue why, but I just always preferred darker skin, and I'm from the Norwegian country side. There were like three darker people around me. And they were from Asia!
I don't believe that Barbie had any impact on eating disorders at least in case of otherwise mentally healthy peoples (eating disorders is more of mentally disorder) after all who compre themselves to a toy that is made to not be realistic.Oh and we have toys like that for boys (GiJoe or HeMan) and I would say they are worst If we going to say that toys can contract to some behaviors and problems because you can get body like that by getting addicted to steroids with will stay with you forever.
Now the bigger problem is in Hollywood that gives roles only to people who are somewhat you cen call "universally bountiful" were they are showing unrealistic body standards that technically you can get but only If you do something stupid like using steroids or starving.And no it's not going into good direction because even so called plus size actress are in most cases are just slightly closer to what majority of people looks like and also I didn't seen or heard about a actor that is plus size and they are don't choose him to play joke character expect some specific kind of movies like "Whale" (didn't watch it but I saw some promotion materials) and that type of movies showing unrealistic body in in other way ( I know there are people like that real life but still they are minority and they should take care because it's unhealthy) so either way Hollywood is scared of every body type that isn't "the perfekt one" with for everyone is different but for Hollywood is just one simple thing that body types must have those must be unhealthy ones.
I have to remind myself that I can't be everything and many careers are unrealistic
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actually in germany children would buy the lilli dolls and the extra fashion packs. the handlers purchased the dolls in a toy shop in germany on vacation but by the time bild found out it was too late and they went bankrupt trying to fight mattel over the rights
I remember Doctor Barbie and I was appalled she was wearing heels. As far as I've seen, doctors do not wear heels. It's stupid and unsafe.
I mean...she's not a real doctor. She's a piece of plastic, the old ones with pointed feet that could fit anything BUT heels. Luckily for you the new ones are all in...very boring slides or sneakers nowadays. Realism really kills fun sometimes.
At one point, he said we can't be further from wrong. Wouldn't that make someone correct? The furthest away from wrong?
Bobby😂 there's an "R" in there somewhere😂
Hey yall my ex's mom got plastic surgery to literally look like barbie and when anybody that wasn't a family member she'd lose it... and me as a teen people like my grandma or even some friends would be like you'd be pretty if you looked like barbie (suggesting I should be thinner) keep in mind I'm abt 5'6 and I weigh 105 pounds.... as you can imagine this lead me to eat less so yea I think barbie could be damaging I think...
It's less barbie herself, shes simply a childrens toy made to look good in fabric clothes that begin to become very thick on the small plastic body. It's more people or media around you telling you that barbie is what you HAVE to look like.
I grew up watching Barbie movies
I even owned Barbie Dolls when I was young. I was only 7 to 10.
This is making me feel bad cuz I was playing with Dolls that were made by the Hard working people who put their blood into it.
Barbies body is so thin at the waist in part because up to 12layers of fabric could be used when counting hemlines and seams on blouses , skirts, petticoats etc. and to give Barbie a natural waist would leave her looking like the Michelin man
Super bulky and unrealistic after adding all the fashion pieces.
4:08 I own one of those. Never seen another one out there before. lol. 😮
I was a monster high kid
I’ve never showed up so early to a video
In a part 2, please address LGBT+ representation, especially the controversy surrounding ‘earring Ken’. Oh how times have changed
problem with barbie is it hard to tell the feminist complaints from the fake feminist complaints. Like its good to have them of all types but bad to exclude the overidealized ones
Pffft... I've played with Barbies all my life and the only body image issue I ever had was finding out I'll never look like He-Man no matter how much I work out or how many steroids I snort up. Stupid human biology...
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After watching this make me regret destroying my barbie doll as a kid
KEEP IT UP!!!
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Grew up in the UK I never liked Barbie. I did like my Sindy doll though which was similar but not as sexual.
Barbie wasn't sexual. Not even from the start. Bild Lilli wasn't a sex doll, she was a novelty figure based around an adult oriented comic strip. Her body wasn't made to be sexual, it was made to look good in the clothes, as when the human fabric is piled onto the doll's small body, it looks much thicker. And so her body was made so she could still look glamorous. Her actual doll lines are either focused on careers, trendy fashion, or fantasy.
1980 was the first black Barbie but she wasn’t the first black doll in the Barbie universe black Francie and Christie happened in the 70s
I had the weight issue but my real problem for me was the 500 careers and the you can be anything crap
I always had a like-dislike relationship with Barbie but not because of any self esteem issues
thats crazy
I played with my little pony, never had a barbie. School mates who had barbies told me I was fat lol
The male equivalent would be He-Man and Goku action figures.
Bratz is Barbie's first real competition and they keep comes back
17:08 they straight up lock all the employees in the factory for days at a time starving people and some other crazy shit
Man I would like to know where they get this interesting information from 😏😌
PT 2plz! Thank you for talking about the workers in china that are pretty much enslaved into making stuff for this side of the world and they work so many hours even though it's not technically legal because they don't have a choice in order to feed their families they have to work as much as possible to make as much as possible If their hours were cut back they would just simply Not be able to provide for their family However with the amount of money barbie makes They should be paid more Without having to charge more for the dolls themselves
Ken
Your video is awesome my friend!!
The last barbie I had cut their heads with my brother Martin,
It s the first time I could remember having a blast to being not able stopin laughed......
We cut theirs hairs shorts, make up them like goth to the top ,
A pretty lovely memory with my big brother...
Ah, another souvenir about Barbie!!!
I was a little 5 yo me, in the runabout of my Quartier, it was everyone made a garage sale ,
My two brothers take all theirs money's and buy me a pool for my Barbies !!! I was so happy,
See, it s engraved into my memories to this day, and forever
What about action man for the boys