Does anyone here have a problem with Barbies?

[scuzzin2U]

I can totally see what your talking about........my niece has those Baby Bratz dolls and it has a SHEER THONG and mini skirts!!! She's five I asked her parents what the hel kinda dolls are they buying for their daughter. Those dolls are very disturbing

[Native Disc Dogger]

I can totally see what your talking about........my niece has those Baby Bratz dolls and it has a SHEER THONG and mini skirts!!! She's five I asked her parents what the hel kinda dolls are they buying for their daughter. Those dolls are very disturbing

WHOA a sheer thong. That's CRAZY!

[Lakota Wiyan]

I never did like the Native Barbies being sold...as I said before, the Princess Jasmine dolls have a better ethnic look and they are more realistically posed, and so I just made the dresses myself. All the Mattel Barbies have the exact same features, including that stupid mouth, but the "Ethnic" barbies are dyed various, inhuman shades of beige. Very ugly!

[Annie Fawn]

I hate Barbies!! There are Barbies up the wall in my house! LOL. Naw just kidding, don't hate them, but I was too busy buying them and next thing I knew, I was stepping on them in the hallways, in the restroom, in the tub, outside in the yard, it becomes an epidemic. My daughter has like 20 of them!

Polly Pockets were the things I used to end up stepping on all the time and finding in the tub. I swear those things should come with a label called tweezer toys!

[Annie Fawn]

you know now that I've reread this, my niece may owe a large part of her fashion sense to Barbie and those Brat dolls. She's somewhat outgrown them now and thankfully because those little shoes and accessories were EVERYWHERE and they would hurt when you stepped on them. So maybe Barbie isn't all bad since it did make her fashion savy......but I'm still against the plastic surgery part

I would sit down with her parents and discuss this plastic surgery bit with them. Something is very wrong that she feels as if this is an easy out from taking care of herself physcially.

[Native Disc Dogger]

No it is not a matter of taking care of herself. From a health standpoint she is probably healthier than most people. She rarely chooses to eat sugar. And because of her diet she gets all of her nutrition from eating properly balanced foods. She chooses to exersize daily because she is very hyper active and when she exersizes and eats right she is able to focus and learn (and not get into trouble). I asked her about it and she quite simply does not believe there is anything wrong with plastic surgery. I guess I can't really blame her. I mean you see all these film and pop stars. They talk openly about surgery and how it has drastically improved thier lives. You see them flat chested one day and then the next day they look like they have shoved balloons down thier shirt. Ever watch MTV lately? those girls are pretty much naked and the popular song lyrics all talk about womens parts. What do you "My Humps" by Black Eye Peas is talking about. Fergie, the singer, talks about how guys give her all sorts of things like diamonds so they can be near her " lovely lady lumps". On MTV a few years ago (it may still be on, I don't know.)they had a reality show where teens (mind you they are 18) were surgically changed into thier favorite stars. Look at shows like The Swan when people compete to undergo the most drastic surgical changes to win. I read in one of her teen magazines that many affluent parents will give thier children as a gift for either thier 16th Birthday on high school graduation, boob jobs. (which says to me that they have more money than sense) And No she nor her older sister, is not allowed to read that magazine anymore but we can't lock her in a box. Maybe I'm just the one that has become old fashioned. Gracious I have turned into my mother! :0

[Annie Fawn]

No it is not a matter of taking care of herself. From a health standpoint she is probably healthier than most people. She rarely chooses to eat sugar. And because of her diet she gets all of her nutrition from eating properly balanced foods. She chooses to exersize daily because she is very hyper active and when she exersizes and eats right she is able to focus and learn (and not get into trouble). I asked her about it and she quite simply does not believe there is anything wrong with plastic surgery. I guess I can't really blame her. I mean you see all these film and pop stars. They talk openly about surgery and how it has drastically improved thier lives. You see them flat chested one day and then the next day they look like they have shoved balloons down thier shirt. Ever watch MTV lately? those girls are pretty much naked and the popular song lyrics all talk about womens parts. What do you "My Humps" by Black Eye Peas is talking about. Fergie, the singer, talks about how guys give her all sorts of things like diamonds so they can be near her " lovely lady lumps". On MTV a few years ago (it may still be on, I don't know.)they had a reality show where teens (mind you they are 18) were surgically changed into thier favorite stars. Look at shows like The Swan when people compete to undergo the most drastic surgical changes to win. I read in one of her teen magazines that many affluent parents will give thier children as a gift for either thier 16th Birthday on high school graduation, boob jobs. (which says to me that they have more money than sense) And No she nor her older sister, is not allowed to read that magazine anymore but we can't lock her in a box. Maybe I'm just the one that has become old fashioned. Gracious I have turned into my mother! :0

I'm afraid that I'm one of those parents who will be giving their daughter a boob job for her 17th birthday, but its a breast reduction and the earliest the doctors will do it is 17 and we want her to have it done while she's still covered by our insurance. Normally, my husband and I don't like plastic surgery but our youngest daughter took after my mothers side in the breast dept. and she has severe back pain because she is so active and the doctors have told us if she doesn't have reduction done she will be in a back brace by the time she's 20. I just worry about young girls who think plastic surgery will solve all their physcal short comings.