May 11, 2010
Tweet Modern science has confirmed what you’ve long suspected: Centerfolds, models and the like are aspiring to be barbies, down to the coochie. After studying Playboy models from 1953 to 2007, “results suggest the perpetuation of a “Barbie Doll” ideal characterized by a low BMI, narrow hips, a prominent bust, and hairless, undefined genitalia resembling ...
February 15, 2010
Tweet Just when you thought it was safe to take your little girl back into Toys R Us, they manage to combine the combine the cocaine that is Barbie and Lady Gaga into one substance: Lady BarBa? These toys modeled after the hottest singer of the moment lend credence to the olf motif: Life imitates ...
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January 12, 2010
Tweet With the Barbiefication (that’s my word, don’t even try it) of American femininity going on now. It’s vewy, vewy (Elmer Fudd voice) interesting that even Mattel, the Dr. Frankenstein behind the Barbie doll, is pushing a new campaign to have her take on new occupations as a way to transcend the dim-witted blonde arch ...
November 17, 2009
Tweet Barbie has long been the atypical prototype for young women everywhere. As a princess, a vixen or even a bikini-clad beach body, she’s been the one to aspire to. But now, Mattel has come out with more “careers,” for Ken’s girlfriend. Enter: Barbie, the race car driver. Can you find vrooom in your closet ...
September 17, 2009
Tweet Barbie is no longer assigned the menial task of being a plastic sex kitten for the masses. Her makers, Mattel, have stepped up her game and Barbie has a back story now: She’s a kid doctor. Wouldn’t you know, the Woman Everybody Wants to Be graduated from high school with honors and got accepted ...
January 23, 2009
Tweet I don’t know, maybe it’s my childhood coulrophbia (fear of clowns). Maybe it’s just me, but this Obama doll is just too life-like. Anything that is fake but too realistic, just gives me the creeps. Plus, I keep thinking about the movie “Tales From the Hood,” where they had this segment on “niglets” that ...