Barbie Doll Should Be Allowed

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In 1959 Mattel released a new toy for young girls to play with. The doll was meant to be a friend,to spark creativity, and, according to the creator Ruth Handler. “let girls practice for adulthood.” This doll is the world famous Barbie. Nowadays you can find her in almost every toy box and most parents buy the doll without a second thought. Barbie may seem harmless, but there are many reasons to why you should not be buying a Barbie doll for your child. Some of these reasons are: she makes girls strive for materialistic things, the race problem, and the unhealthy and damaging image. Ever since Barbie came out Mattel has been creating more and more materialistic items that are hard to obtain in real life. She has the Barbie dream house, the pink convertible, the pool, and even a Barbie mall. Since so many children and even some adults look up to Barbie in so many aspects of their lives, they are taught at a young age that in order to succeed in life they have to have the best of the best. Some adults have even spent millions of dollars trying to replicate their homes after the Dream House. These kids end up having a lot of greed, always wanting more to add to their collection of accessories, and this ends up …show more content…

In stores colored Barbies are rarely priced equally and in Mattel’s advertisements you only get glimpses of the colored dolls. Kids think that there is only one “real” barbie, which is blonde and white. This has a big impact on kids; for example one mom’s quote from “5 Reasons NOT to Buy Barbie for Little Girls (It’s Not Just Body Image)” states that, "Several weeks ago my daughter Boogie (who just turned 5) had a Barbie doll eaten by one of our dogs. Normally this would have led to a meltdown of epic proportions. This time, however, she shrugged nonchalantly and said ‘She’s just the Black one’

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