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#1 Apr 19 2011 at 1:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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“As a pop-cultural icon, Barbie is often used as art to express one’s own personal opinions and views,” a Mattel spokesperson said in an email. “Girls see female body images everywhere today and it’s critical that parents and caregivers provide perspective on what they are seeing. It’s important to remember that Barbie is a doll who stands 11.5 inches tall and weighs 7.25 ounces — she was never modeled on the proportions of a real person.”


As someone that has struggled with weight my entire life, I would say that the ideas on weight have been changing. While I remember a time when I wanted to look like Barbie I think in the back of my head I always knew that was a bit crazy. Now a day’s I'm not as worried about what I look like and more worried about my health.

Mainly I just found the picture to be funny and wanted to share.
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#2 Apr 19 2011 at 1:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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The only thing I thought about when I saw Barbie was that it'd melt well in a microwave.
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#3 Apr 19 2011 at 1:44 PM Rating: Good
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**** the rack, look at the arms. Smiley: eek
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lolgaxe wrote:
The only thing I thought about when I saw Barbie was that it'd melt well in a microwave.


I like where this is going.
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In the spirit of USA tax time, all I can think about is that those easily qualify as "working breasts". She could get a pretty hefty deduction for all that plastic they crammed in her.. plastic.
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In the spirit of USA tax time, all I can think about is that those easily qualify as "working breasts". She could get a pretty hefty deduction for all that plastic they crammed in her.. plastic.
Some of her is wood.
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#7 Apr 19 2011 at 1:53 PM Rating: Decent
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ORLY.

I haven't even seen a Barbie up close in years. Sadly the last dolls I've seen are those insanely expensive anime/manga ones from Japan that my son keeps purchasing for his girlfriend. I firmly believe they're made of diamonds and gold given how much they cost.
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She managed to f--- up the proportions something fierce, not the least of which was her choice to use a toy head that didn't match the body. If it was built correctly, you should be able to hold your hand over the girl standing next to it (to remove her from context) and think "That looks like a regular Barbie doll..."

Take a photo of a Barbie from online and use an image editor to blow it up to 6' tall. Tell me if it looks like the thing she made.

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#9 Apr 19 2011 at 2:01 PM Rating: Good
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I think the point was to build a life sized Barbie doll based on the proportions women think men think they want women to have.
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Four years ago, Slayen, then a student at Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., built what she believed to be a life-size version of the doll she played with as a child[...]
“It’s a shocking image. A lot of people have seen it, and it’s started debates,” she said, particularly after she wrote about it for the Huffington Post. “Her proportions are not 100 percent correct, but her look is not invalid.”

Of course it's "invalid" if it's not accurate. Is the goal to start a "debate" based upon her warped ideas of what a Barbie looks like and her half-assed math & carpentry skills?

Edit: Bonus irony-lulz for the "Get Real, Barbie" poster next to a doll she knows isn't accurate in depicting Barbie.

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I'd hit it.
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As a man, I appreciate the title of this thread.
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Speaking of people taking childhood memories and ruining them.
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Speaking of people taking childhood memories and ruining them.
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The victim of this sexual assault went on record saying that the perpetrator lured him into false sense of security by promising some "Rooby Racks".
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The victim of this sexual assault went on record saying that the perpetrator lured him into false sense of security by promising some "Rooby Racks".


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Typically, we have distorted perceptions about what the other gender generally finds appealing. I'd like to link you to some actual surveys, but google is a mess of crap and I can't find my textbook at the moment. Many American women believe men find larger breast attractive than the average size men actually find to be the most attractive, and similarly with muscularity and men.
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Heh; I was at a thing last week where I got the opportunity to... interact with a lot of guys (and girls) and I've actually found that gender doesn't matter as far as build preferences go, soft and squishy people ftw! Had this really really skinny guy sit on my lap, his **** was so hard and uncomfortable!
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Kalivha wrote:
Heh; I was at a thing last week where I got the opportunity to... interact with a lot of guys (and girls) and I've actually found that gender doesn't matter as far as build preferences go, soft and squishy people ftw! Had this really really skinny guy sit on my lap, his **** was so hard and uncomfortable!


Shouldn't it be the other way around? What kind of guy sits on a woman's lap?

Really, I don't think I've ever seen that, unless the male was a young boy and the female was an older cousin/aunt/mother.
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TirithRR the Eccentric wrote:
Kalivha wrote:
Heh; I was at a thing last week where I got the opportunity to... interact with a lot of guys (and girls) and I've actually found that gender doesn't matter as far as build preferences go, soft and squishy people ftw! Had this really really skinny guy sit on my lap, his **** was so hard and uncomfortable!


Shouldn't it be the other way around? What kind of guy sits on a woman's lap?

Really, I don't think I've ever seen that, unless the male was a young boy and the female was an older cousin/aunt/mother.


You don't have any short skinny friends? I've seen it a lot, some time the woman isn't comfortable sitting in a guys lap, things tend to pop up in that situation. Which could lead to awkwardness.
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I sat on his lap, too. People sat on each other's laps randomly. It was an interesting weekend.

I think when he tried to sit on my lap I already had someone on the other knee, although I can't recall who that might have been.
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Kalivha wrote:
Heh; I was at a thing last week where I got the opportunity to... interact with a lot of guys (and girls) and I've actually found that gender doesn't matter as far as build preferences go, soft and squishy people ftw! Had this really really skinny guy sit on my lap, his **** was so hard and uncomfortable!


Shouldn't it be the other way around? What kind of guy sits on a woman's lap?

Really, I don't think I've ever seen that, unless the male was a young boy and the female was an older cousin/aunt/mother.


You don't have any short skinny friends? I've seen it a lot, some time the woman isn't comfortable sitting in a guys lap, things tend to pop up in that situation. Which could lead to awkwardness.


The few male friends I have small enough to do this, must not be close enough to any women to actually do it.

There was one guy in high school who we called "shorty". He had to be less than 5 foot tall. He dated a woman who was much taller. I never saw him sit in her lap, though he always found the opportunity to slow dance with his face resting in between her breasts.
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I'm all for blurring the lines between the genders. I like people on my lap (if their ***** aren't too bony)!
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Boo for bony ******


Also I do wish people would stop misusing the words weigh and weight.
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I don't think it's misuse. I mean, people don't need to distinguish in this context, and using the correct terminology doesn't really help the meaning and is just really not elegant.

Sheesh, non-linguists being all conservative about stuff.
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The One and Only toohotforu wrote:
SwiftAusterity wrote:
In the spirit of USA tax time, all I can think about is that those easily qualify as "working breasts". She could get a pretty hefty deduction for all that plastic they crammed in her.. plastic.
Some of her is wood.


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I would totally sit in Kalivha's lap! Lucky RJ
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