Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Today's WORD: Barbie Bash

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Teach Your Children Well

“Barbie is . . . held up as a paragon of femininity, an unachievable ideal for young girls to mimic. She is a princess, a dentist, a lawyer, a movie star. She is demure and always smiling, always pleasing to the eye, ready for anything. She is heterosexual. She is patriarchy’s ideal tabula rasa, an always-already perfect female form onto which anything can be inscribed. All you have to do is buy her. And what's worse, she teaches little girls to be the same as her.”
Thinking Girl blog, “because women are people too,” 2006

Editorial Comment: And what’s with Ken, anyway?

TODAY: REINVENTING BARBIE BASH! More than 160 Barbie and other iconic dolls try out new roles and looks as part of an exhibit, “Reinventing Barbie,” in celebration of Women’s History Month and Barbie’s 50th birthday—by students and community members at Utah State University’s Merrill-Cazier Library, sponsored by the USU Women & Gender Studies Program. “These dolls shape girls’ lives,” said one student, “and not always in good ways. We’re giving Barbie—and all women and men—new perspectives.” The “Reinventing Barbie Bash
is today, 3-5 p.m. See blog.

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