For those who don’t visit the AG site: According to a report in Reuters, Barbie remains number one in the list for girls’ holiday wishes for the fifth year in a row and boys are going more high tech.
I feel like brushing off my soap box (again). For those who wish not to roll your eyes, please stop reading… NOW.
Listen Mattel, obviously you have females brainwashed some how and they turn into Real World contestants and party girls. Just looking at your latest dolls show why: Barbie entered the dark seeded world of meth and prostitution. I’m not quite sure how it happened because for a while she was working at NASA and also moonlighting in the medical industry. Please tell us her story. Did someone slip her a mickey and she woke up in a brothel? Finally able to escape, she was penniless and needed to strip (oh I’m sorry- dance exotically) to feed herself, her cosmetic surgery addiction and her drug habit. Obviously unable to maintain a healthy relationship with her on and off again beau (I’m curious as to if it sent her over the edge) she wound up throwing away her briefcases, astronaut suits, medical bags and instead took a crash course in limo hot tubs .
You’ve got the consumer world by the (um, that place down there…) and it boggles my mind as to why you’re not using it for a greater good. Instead of teaching girls how to twirl and dance in hopes of turning them into a tortured ballerina (and let’s face it, they’ll wind using those skills to slither around poles for cash); create programs or toys designed to teach them about robotics (seriously- a robot Barbie that they can build would be awesome), computer programming (something in which they aren’t always an end user would truly prep them for their future), how to build a computer (make it stereo-typical pink if you must- although studies show that my gender does prefer silver, black, red and blue) or develop some other way to get them to create and use their minds. Help them so that their after school jobs can go towards an education instead of an eating disorder clinic, drug rehab or breast augmentation surgery.
As Black Friday approaches: For those buying gifts for young girls this year, if you’re going to buy into the continued Barbie hype, at least lop off her head and stick it onto an Autobot or one of those laser tag helicopters. I mean seriously, I’m tingling just thinking about it!
I am now stepping off my soap box and putting it away so I can cut off some Barbie heads. I suggest you do the same as it sounds like a ton of fun. You don’t even have to do anything further with the heads, or perhaps you can just cut them off and place them on tooth picks for a pretty cool medieval shoebox diorama!