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Since the time I was a toddler, I have witnessed the preaching of society that, features like Barbie's are the epitome of what it means to be beautiful woman. Tiny waists and large breasts were beginning to come out as the image of feminine beauty. Society has unconsciously made women focus their attention on their looks, which in my opinion has turned into a social disease.
I think that Barbie was an early advocator of the "beauty myth". A doll whom, if she were real, would be too thin to fit all of her internal organs in to her body, and is too busty to stand under her own power. Barbie living in her pink palace and riding her pink corvette with her molded man Ken. Barbie had taught me that every member of society was living this very same life. Her whole existence was to drive around in her car, shop, hang out with her friends, and show off her Ken.
I have to question if the weight of responsibility for this beauty myth falls only on Barbie's tiny plastic shoulders? Of course not, to be fair, Barbie was not the only culprit, I can remember getting dolls whose main purpose was to remove or apply make-up, style hair, or spend fake money with a fake credit cards, as if that's all it meant to be a woman. .
Barbie had now redefined what it is like to be a feminine in our society. Although today I can see more of an ethnic variety when it comes to dolls, but the majority has perfect white skin. I still believe that Barbie reigns as Queen of it all; queen of pink, of porn-star bodies, of tiny designer clothes, and of tiny pink malls. .
I see these images everywhere: in every ad, on every television show, on the big screen, and staring down at us from billboards. I think that Barbie has contributed largely to the problem, to the point she may be the root of this situation? Conger (2000) said, "The media definitely encourage eating disorders, if you interview 100 women, you would be hard-pressed to find one who is happy with their body because of the standards the media set.
