March 8th is Barbie’s 50th Birthday

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   March 9, 2009

   Anne, you beat me to it. I just read this and was going to write a post.

   What interested me the most is this…

   “Why did my Barbies end up dismembered, naked, pierced and slashed in the toy-dregs mausoleum of dusty closet crates? Apparently girls do this, according to research from the University of Bath, as a “rite of passage.” For me though, I had additional ire — by my pre-teenage years, I felt sure Barbie was in cahoots with my mother: impossibly beautiful plus an extra dose of bossy, someone who would chase me around the house with lipstick before an “event.””

   I’ve read a lot of articles mentioning this phenomenon recently and I’m not sure what to make of it. Personally, when I outgrew my Barbies they ended up in a box in the basement, fully clothed. I never ‘mutilated’ them, so I am wondering if this is something common among other young girls.

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