Hey kids, look who's ready for spring break!
American legend, the Barbie doll, turns 50 on March 9th marking the success of one of the best known iconic products ever. However, not everybody is celebrating. Democratic Delegate, Jeff Eldridge, has proposed a law to ban the sale of Mattel’s famous product and similar creations in West Virginia.
Once again, is this not the Nanny state, the grotesque imposition of government run amuck?
Sure, the Barbie doll phenomenon is a little on the tacky side promoting crass materialism and imagine how freakish a woman approaching Barbie’s body dimensions would be, like those waifish Paris fashion models maybe, the ones that look like they have some kind of chronic eating disorder under all the fancy clothes, hair and makeup.
Give the American people and three generations of little girls credit for being smarter than the government. There will always be freaks who attach themselves to media images and that obsession leads to them living an insane life. Can you say Octomom?
Despite all the legions of nasty jokes ridiculing the intelligence of the West Virginia population be assured that folks in the Mountain State will have nothing to do with this absurd proposal. It died for lack of a second.
Once again, is this not the Nanny state, the grotesque imposition of government run amuck?
Sure, the Barbie doll phenomenon is a little on the tacky side promoting crass materialism and imagine how freakish a woman approaching Barbie’s body dimensions would be, like those waifish Paris fashion models maybe, the ones that look like they have some kind of chronic eating disorder under all the fancy clothes, hair and makeup.
Give the American people and three generations of little girls credit for being smarter than the government. There will always be freaks who attach themselves to media images and that obsession leads to them living an insane life. Can you say Octomom?
Despite all the legions of nasty jokes ridiculing the intelligence of the West Virginia population be assured that folks in the Mountain State will have nothing to do with this absurd proposal. It died for lack of a second.
2 comments:
WV legislators had to realize proposing a Barbie ban would cause a big media stir but, then again, maybe this was strategic...
At least their Barbie stir hasn't resulted in another earmark from Senator Robert Byrd, but leave it to the esteemed Senator. Perhaps, he'll want to establish a West Virginia Mattel Toy Museum or conduct some Federal study to assess the influence Barbie dolls have on young West Virginia women by allocating one of the cited product per each female under the age of 18 in the Mountain State.
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