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By Liza Featherstone @ Jacobin Magazine, June 26
The feud between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters is getting ridiculous. Warren isn’t Hillary and Bernie is no sexist.
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by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 3:33am
Appropriation Olympics?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 6:56am
Hah. Do you have to take litmus tests to play with her? This one I did look at the replies. Some are pretty funny. I'm with this guy:
I played with my original Barbie like crazy, but I always thought her a handicapped mutant already. She had a weird body unlike any grown woman I ever saw, with knees that didn't bend, no nipples and could only walk on her tiptoes. I'm glad they finally got her a wheelchair accessory!
Seriously. I've been interested in the Barbie topic a long time. But first comment hit me with something new on it...imagination is lost on kids today... who the hell tells kids their toys are role models? You are supposed to use them to imagine things. Why do some kids even do that, look for role models in their toys?
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 10:44am
p.s. comes to mind that the point of the original Barbie was to make money off of imagination. Like novels do. Most dolls wore the same clothes over and over and you got bored of them. With Barbie, there was something new: the kid with the most outfits and options for their Barbie won. It was about being able to change her into something else the next day, the next hour.. And they were fucking expensive (which also sent the message: better get some money, or you won't have as many options).They must have watched how a lot of us original Barbie kids eventually cut her hair because we got tired of it. They came out later with a model that you could pull the hair out of her head to make it longer, and shove it back in when you wanted it shorter. So in actuality, the wheelchair accessory is continuing the original marketing model. But skin color you can't change: not so much.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 10:59am
Are you suggesting Blackface Barbie? Come on, fess up - you and Joe just can't leave old times behind.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 11:20am
Very intriguing question!
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 11:23am