Other dolls, like Barbie’s younger sister Skipper, have also been added in subsequent years.
Unfortunately, noteverythingBarbie has been considered a good thing.
Gender-normative, sure, but cute for the time, right?
The book featured bold instructions for weight loss on the back: “DON’T EAT!”
However, this alert was not meant to go public.
The FBI stressed that there hadn’t been an incident involving the doll and ill intent.
Nevertheless, the doll was enormously popular with kids at the time.
The bright pink ribbons [in her hair]?
That kind of stuff is so easy to use."
He then added that many portrayals of Mexicans and Mexican Americans rely on the same tropes.
“[Mexican Americans] are tired of being seen as merely colorful,” he said.
Claudya Martinez, staff writer for MamasLatinas, chimed in.
2014’s Barbie Babysitter was underwhelming
In 2014, Mattel launched a new doll called Barbie Babysitter.
The second time around, Barbie Babysitter was included as part of a collection about careers.
In other words, the rest of the jobs were a little more mature.
The result was Oreo Barbie a blonde, blue-eyed, white doll dressed in an Oreo-themed blue dress.
The doll was enormously popular, and in 2001 Mattel came out with another set of Oreo Barbies.
This time around, one of the dolls was Black.
The doll was immediately met with a wave of disbelief and outrage and was ultimately discontinued.
While one might assume that Mattel would never repeat the mistake again, that wasn’t the case.
Each doll had a voice box, which was programmed with four of 270 possible phrases.
and “Will we ever have enough clothes?”
but the doll also offered up phrases like “I’m studying to be a doctor.”
However, there was one phrase in particular that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
Some of the Teen Talk Barbies were programmed to complain, “Math class is tough!”
Teen Talk Ken, however, uttered no such phrase.
Also like Martha Stewart, Barbie was hit with some backlash after she graced the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Sports Illustrated Barbie definitely struck a chord, but not all the feedback was negative.
At the time, theLos Angeles Timesreported that the Barbie was offensive to some.
“They’re reducing our culture to a fad,” one college student told the publication.
A situation where you’re inside, but you’re outside.
That position where people scorn you but imitate you."
