Fat Barbie ... or should we say plump ... or curvy?

[patrick jane]

I think it'd be cool to have a nerd Barbie.

I'm thinking they could have dozens of Barbies for all genres, styles and looks.

 

[NightHawkeye]

I'm thinking they could have dozens of Barbies for all genres, styles and looks.

Kinda like Bratz dolls.

 

[patrick jane]

Kinda like Bratz dolls.

Yeah, I guess it's been done before.

 

[nightflight]

nm

 

[patrick jane]

What about Black Barbie ? Or gay Ken. Or Trans Barbie

 

[jimmyjimmy]

Original barbie would be over 7 feet tall, if her proportions are correct.

Her height can't be calculated unless you assume other measurements.

 

[The Cadet]

Time ran an article on this which I found very interesting:

http://time.com/barbie-new-body-cover-story/

“Hello, I’m a fat person, fat, fat, fat,”

A 6-year-old girl giving voice for the first time to curvy Barbie sings in a testing room at Mattel’s headquarters. Her playmates erupt in laughter.

When an adult comes into the room and asks her if she sees a difference between the dolls’ bodies, she modifies her language. “This one’s a little chubbier,” she says. Girls in other sessions are similarly careful about labels. “She’s, well, you know,” says an 8-year-old as she uses her hands to gesture a curvier woman. A shy 7-year-old refuses to say the word fat to describe the doll, instead spelling it out, “F, a, t.”

“I don’t want to hurt her feelings,” she says a little desperately.

As always, Barbie acts as a Rorschach test for the girls who play with her—and the adults who evaluate her. It’s a testament to anti-bullying curriculums in elementary schools that none of the girls would use words like fat in front of an adult, which Barbie’s research team says wasn’t true even three years ago. Still, the girls learning the ways of political correctness do not as wholeheartedly embrace the new dolls as their moms.

“We see it a lot. The adult leaves the room and they undress the curvy Barbie and snicker a little bit,” says Tania Missad, who runs the research team for Mattel’s girls portfolio. “For me, it’s these moments where it just really sets in how important it is we do this. Over time I would love it if a girl wouldn’t snicker and just think of it as another beautiful doll.”​

Slate puts it in more stark terms:

These are kids who are barely out of kindergarten, and they already know that the thicker Barbie is the odd one out. Clearly, Barbie isn’t the only one indoctrinating young ones into the cult of super-thin perfection. Celebrity culture, which promotes skinny bodies just as handily as Barbie, already has a vice-like grip on little girls’ psyches​

 

[Lik3]

Triple chin is overkill IMO.

What plus sized or fat chick has three chins in reality? I agree. It is total overkill.

 

[brinny]

it's a DOLL......

besides,

Jazzy Jessie's MUCH better than any Barbsie

 

[jimmyjimmy]

If we want realism, why not a chunky Barbie with type II diabetes, on antidepressants who hooks up with a bunch of dudes, gets pregnant and has an abortion? (free PP sticker with every doll!)

 

[The Cadet]

What plus sized or fat chick has three chins in reality? I agree. It is total overkill.

It's also a parody.

 

[timewerx]

L
From the OP article. Still looks very attractive.

Still?? I actually thought the curvy barbie looks better than the original...."Hails a taxicab and goes to the nearest Toys'r'us"......

Looks too real though, I'm actually worried these things might come alive at night! :o

 

[Nithavela]

Still?? I actually thought the curvy barbie looks better than the original...."Hails a taxicab and goes to the nearest Toys'r'us"......

Looks too real though, I'm actually worried these things might come alive at night!

 

[Sistrin]

What about Black Barbie ? Or gay Ken. Or Trans Barbie

Ken has always been gay.

 

[timewerx]

Wouldn't want to sleep with that in my room, perhaps, not even inside our whole building!

 

[Sistrin]

Triple chin is overkill IMO.

You earned that one.

So let us begin:

"Your Barbie is so fat..."

 

[Sistrin]

Ok guys, here is how this works.

When someone post "Your Barbie is so fat..." someone else has to post "How fat is she?" Then comes the punchline. Such as:

"Your Barbie so fat!"

"How fat is she?"

"Your Barbie so fat, when Buzz Lightyear saw her he ran to infinity and beyond!"

Heh...

 

[brinny]

If we want realism, why not a chunky Barbie with type II diabetes, on antidepressants who hooks up with a bunch of dudes, gets pregnant and has an abortion? (free PP sticker with every doll!)

LOL!

 

[brinny]

Ok guys, here is how this works.

When someone post "Your Barbie is so fat..." someone else has to post "How fat is she?" Then comes the punchline. Such as:

"Your Barbie so fat!"

"How fat is she?"

"Your Barbie so fat, when Buzz Lightyear saw her he ran to infinity and beyond!"

Heh...

LOL!

 

[brinny]

speaking of dolls....