Pregnant Barbie Research Paper

I couldn’t say exactly what the teen birth rate in the US is, but while the big media sensationalist like to blame MTV, Disney Kids, and Rap music—I instead look at Barbie. Not in a feminist, “Barbie needs to look more like a real woman,” way. I think instead, “What do you expect from the country that brought us pregnant Barbie?” If we are going to insist that we didn’t fail as parents, turn and point our fingers elsewhere, why not load more blame on Barbie. I know her shoulders can’t bear the weight, but that is just what she gets for having that insanely tiny waist. Over the years I have had more conversations than I can count about pregnant Barbie. She was a weird blip in my childhood, somewhere around the time when my sister got a

They had multiple television shows to be guests on, friends to visit, and dates of their own to worry us. What elementary school student actually has time to take care of a pregnant plastic blonde chick? We had a new brother when pregnant Barbie arrived on the shelves and even if I could have convinced my mother of the importance of this doll in my life—that she wasn’t stupid, she was cool—I’m sure, now, I wouldn’t have been able to keep up with the appetite of a pregnant adult, plastic or not. When I was 7 though I was convinced of my need, and it just wasn’t

It was like a Mormon commune with Ken as the leader. Every Barbie married Ken. The other dolls in the Barbie line, we left single. I didn’t know many girls who had more than one Ken doll, and since we all had at least three Barbies, I think this was going on in young girls bedrooms around the world. I actually liked the other dolls better than Barbie. Her blonde hair and blue eyes weren’t the problem. I just thought she was boring. Barbie didn’t have movies back then and unlike my other dolls, she didn’t have a story. At least Ken, Skipper, and Midge were Barbie’s boyfriend, sister, and friend. This alone made them more