A Silly Post

Now, I’m not one to “bag on Barbie”. I spent hours and hours of my youth playing with an assortment of wonderful flea market and garage sale Barbies that my parents picked up here and there. I know I can't claim any serious self-esteem issues that I can directly correlate to those dolls. Of course, my 1970’s Barbies were dressed in glittery bell bottoms, puffy faux fur jackets, and beautiful hand knit baby blue full length dresses and lavender lace and satin ball gowns (don’t worry Bzee - Diana has them all today!) not the mid-drift baring dolls on the market today.

I just saw a commercial for the new Barbie living quarters Barbie® Totally Real House™” and I now have an issue with Barbie and her marketing. It has nothing to do with what she wears – but how she washes what she wears. A stacking front loading washer and dryer?! Are you kidding me? I guess I should be thankful there’s not a plasma tv there too.

So today's girls not only will compare themselves with Barbie's body, they get to compare their washer and dryer to her flashy high end appliances, too.

Now I have Barbie related self-esteem issues…