However, as a child, I have never ever looked at a Barbie doll and thought, "wow I wish I could look like that!" In fact, I never even thought she was especially attractive. To me, she was just a doll - just a plastic plaything with hair to brush and limbs to twist into unnatural but hilarious positions (yes, that's pretty much all I did with my Barbies.) Looking at her unnaturally small waist and stick-thin legs, it seemed clear to me that Barbie was not intended to look like a real human. Wanting to look like Barbie would be no less of a stretch than wanting a pink magnet on my foot and a sparkly tattoo on my butt like my beloved My Little Ponies.
Therefore, I was utterly baffled to discover that there exist people in this world who have literally transformed into a Barbie - namely Valeria Lukyanova of Ukraine, a.k.a Human Barbie. Why would anyone willingly toss away her rightful identity as a Homo sapien and reduce herself to an 80 pound mass of plastic and bones? To fulfill her self esteem? To achieve Internet fame? Side note: having a 16 in waist does not make posting half-naked photos online more respectable.
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Hey Angela! This is really interesting! It never occurred to me that things like Barbie are dehumanizing. I really like what you said about people giving up their humanity to become something unreal. It's such a shame that people would just toss away their humanness. Good job!
ReplyDeleteHey Angela! I really liked how you related what we talked about in class to the dehumanization of women in their strive to become barbie. Although i had already heard of the "Human Barbie" before i had never thought of the comparison, nice job! Also i love the captions!
ReplyDeleteHello Angela! I'm sorry to say that your blog post may give me nightmares tonight. I like how you use "dehumanizing" to a literal sense. Also, your hashtags sure gave me a chuckle. A friendly reminder that we have moved on from the homo sapien days and are now homo sapiens sapiens :)))))))). Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHey Angela! I chuckled at your crazy cute, clever captions you used. This helped me come to realization that the human race will go to the full extent of losing respect in order to achieve beauty. Twas quite the pleasure to read!
ReplyDeleteI think that the pictures combined with the facts about the human Barbie's measurements help bring in realization that looking exactly like a doll is a dangerous idea.
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