Barbie Dolls Meaning

Growing up during your childhood, with little girls and boys, they all had toys and movies. When you’re a kid you don’t think about what Barbie dolls, Bratz Dolls or movies like High School Musical and Mean Girls mean, toys and movies are not supposed to have meaning when playing with them, the job is to give them meaning with your own imagination. After taking this class “How to be a Girl” it has helped realize that toys do have a meaning, but you wouldn’t realize that unless you have witnessed and really think about the design of the dolls or movies. This will show that toys and movies for both girls and boys do have meanings to them and that meaning is how society has described boys and girls to us. Not only is the relations to girls and dolls so similar, but also putting the toys into characters and in movies. Toys like the Bratz dolls is a big example of how society looks, sees

Growing up as a little girl, Barbie’s were sold separately or with her boyfriend Ken. Barbie was a perfect girl with long straight blonde hair, white teeth blue eyes, white skinned, skinny and fit, tall with big boobs and a big butt. All the dolls were blonde and white, there were no black or brown hair Barbie dolls it wasn’t till about 2005 when Barbie’s started to change. The reason being was because blonde hair and blue eyes were considered the perfect girl. I don’t think there is a movie that would be relatable to Barbie just because she is herself and there is different unique Barbie’s. Throughout the years Barbie has changed, there is skinny, small boobed, brown, red-haired and even multi-colored hairs. They also have made Barbie’s plus sized and short, with tan, pale and black skin. These Barbie’s are not to make fun of girls, they are to help encourage girls to be themselves and make something of themselves so not every girl is the exact same on the outside nor the