Torturing Barbie Dolls (experience, Christ, science, christmas, holiday)

[Todd]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

What’s this? Aggression against the beloved Barbie, the beaming plastic icon of (allegedy) idealized beauty? Could it be that society has misinterpreted how young girls view Barbie? For decades, journalists and social critics have assumed that young girls idolize Barbie dolls, but little actual research has been done on the topic. In the absence of evidence, assumption and speculation ran rampant.

hehehe *rubs hands together fiendeshly*. I used to destroy my sister's barbie dolls when I was a kid. I'd go to war with them (GI Joe vs. Barbie Dolls). There were always a lot of Barbie heads and limbs laying around after I was done with them. Needless to say, my sister was never very happy to find the mess of barbie limbs lying all over her room.

OK, I guess this was a little off topic since they were talking about girls aggression against Barbie, but I thought it was relivant to state that boys have an aggression against barbie too.

[ChrisP]

Originally Posted by Todd

hehehe *rubs hands together fiendeshly*. I used to destroy my sister's barbie dolls when I was a kid. I'd go to war with them (GI Joe vs. Barbie Dolls). There were always a lot of Barbie heads and limbs laying around after I was done with them. Needless to say, my sister was never very happy to find the mess of barbie limbs lying all over her room.

OK, I guess this was a little off topic since they were talking about girls aggression against Barbie, but I thought it was relivant to state that boys have an aggression against barbie too.

I for one was never so dastardly Todd, I'm shocked.

What Hawk and Snake-Eyes do is their own business.

[Nehustan]

I hear they are Bringing out an ugly sister to Barbie called Lyndie, its a cross between Barbie & GI Joe, who bottles up all the repressed anger from when she was young, then takes it out on others...

I thought it was funny, tho' looking at the picture she didn't get the joke...

[Pardus]

My partner tells me stories of her "sending her barbies to boot camp".

[FFH]

Originally Posted by Seyorni

I saw a Barbie camp art installation at Burning Man a few years ago. Hundreds of barbie dolls displayed in amusing, bizarre or shocking situations.

What a waste of perfectly good plasic. Wow, now I can say that I know someone who has been to Burning Man.

[FFH]

My wife has a couple of barbies that her mom bought in the fifties and sixties I think. They are worth a few bucks. The plastic starts to melt after a certain amount of time so she wants to sell them before that happens. This is what we have heard. The old style plastic starts to naturally decay or something like that. I think they are only worth about a hundred bucks each.

[Pardus]

I have a copy of "The Wicker Man" if that counts.

[FFH]

The crazy thing is that my wife's mom had these barbies in her house until she died in her eighties. She must have bought them when she was 30 or so. My wife just got them out of her old house when her mother died. My wife hates barbie dolls too, but got them to try to sell them. I am surprised that she did not destroy them when she lived at home. They must have been well guarded. Her mother new they would be worth something some day. I think my wife actually sold them to a neighbor who sold them to an old lady who was interested in them. Yep I think they are gone now. Thank goodness.

[Nehustan]

I bought my daughter a pegasus barbie and accompanying hunk today. If anything happens to them I'm ringing social services....

[Shadow Wolf]

A girl I almosted dated told me stories of how she would have her unicorns make sacrifices that composed of barbie dolls to the dragons that would eat the unicorns if the barbie-food sacrifices weren't made.

I can remember breaking a few of my sister's barbies. I vividly remember once, pretending they were being electricuted, and I ripped the limbs and heads off and scattered them. And I had my transformers either run over or shoot some of them.