
"New Barbie Unveiled " Topic
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Hafen von Schlockenberg | 14 Nov 2017 4:52 p.m. PST |
She's "Hijab Barbie": link Personally, I have no problem with it. But what does the "End of the World" gang think? |
Saber6  | 14 Nov 2017 5:04 p.m. PST |
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20thmaine  | 14 Nov 2017 5:04 p.m. PST |
I can't really see how anyone could take offence at that Barbie (anymore than any other Barbie that is). Since it's based on Ibtihaj Muhammad at least "Olympic fencing Barbie" gets stronger legs – better for the sport of fencing! |
Cacique Caribe | 14 Nov 2017 5:45 p.m. PST |
As long as you can see a girl's face, I don't pretty much care if you can see her hair or not*. As a doll, she could be a ninja, with no face at all under the fabric, for all I care. I don't know how many legit copies of it would sell though. Dan * Though I've never been personally attracted to any girl that constantly hid her head with hats or scarves. Then again, as a kid I only played with barbies when a really pretty girl asked me to. :) TMP link |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 14 Nov 2017 7:34 p.m. PST |
Ha! Since I'd been "dissappeared" when you posted that thread, I've taken the opportunity to add a necropost. Hope nobody on those boards will be mad. EDIT: I just checked. You posted that on FIVE boards?! Jeez. I'm sure to get some complaints. |
Cacique Caribe | 14 Nov 2017 8:02 p.m. PST |
Well, she could have been of interest to a couple of different groups, so I had to crosspost! I didn't want anyone to miss out. :) Dan |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 14 Nov 2017 8:54 p.m. PST |
Natalia is something, I admit. |
Andrew Walters | 16 Nov 2017 11:52 a.m. PST |
On the surface, who cares. Under the surface, Barbie is a fashion doll: you can change her clothes, buy clothes for her, make clothes for her. She is a way to play with the idea of expressing yourself through clothes. When you play with Barbie you put on one outfit so she can go to the mall with her friends, then change the clothes so she can go the big party. But, some would say, she can also put on her white coat and be a surgeon, or her business suit when it's time for a corporate takeover. Playing with Barbie is playing with who she can be, what she can do, as expressed through the outfits. If *that* is the case, some could argue hijab Barbie is the anti-Barbie. She's going to wear the hijab. Going to the mall with friends? Hijab. Driving the kids to school? Hijab. Performing surgery? Well, she can't wear the clothes. Presenting her new project to the board of directors? Well, she's not going to do that, is she? Feminists of various stripes have been complaining about Barbie for various reasons over the decades, but at least Barbie had choices. Maybe they were limited, I don't know, is there an underwater welder Barbie? Maybe Barbie was clothes-focused, and she certainly created unrealistic body expectations. But Barbie could wear what she liked. Space suit, riding habit, whatever. The hijab represents a lack of choice, and never changing. Some might argue that it represents giving up choices for her faith. That's fine, virtually all faiths constrain personal choices in some way. But that's not Barbie, that's unbarbie. Of course, this is not hijab Barbie, it's commemorating a specific person and her accomplishments, the hijab is secondary. The person is certainly worth elevation to Barbie-hood. How will the hijab affect her how she functions as a role model? Personally, I'm pretty sure I don't care, though I liked the part about Barbie joining the SS in 1935. I did not know that. |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 16 Nov 2017 2:05 p.m. PST |
Yes,that's her fencing costume, but a minute with Google convinces me there needn't be a shortage of outfits:
Including professionals:
Rather than limiting girls imaginations,it looks to me more like opening a possibly vast new market. |
Andrew Walters | 16 Nov 2017 6:10 p.m. PST |
I did google "hijab" to make sure I was talking about the right thing, but apparently I didn't do a very good job. |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 16 Nov 2017 8:32 p.m. PST |
Maybe you were thinking about a burka?
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Cacique Caribe | 16 Nov 2017 8:33 p.m. PST |
Hijab is just a scarf. No concealment of the face, or the rest of the body for that matter. Dan |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 16 Nov 2017 9:12 p.m. PST |
Right. And none of this is to imply that all Muslim women wear any of these. Many do not--in Turkey, for instance. And of course, there are plenty of non-Muslim Arabs. And non-Arab Muslims. But the members of this forum are knowledgeable enough to know all that. The point is that there is an additional role model for girls. That can only be a good thing. Speaking of which, I see that Yusra Mardini,Syrian refugee and another Olympian, has made a couple more steps in becoming one (not that she wasn't already):
link And she has a contract with Under Armour: youtu.be/R18JNX5vhQU |
Bowman | 21 Nov 2017 5:14 a.m. PST |
Burka Barbie has a nicer ring to it, however. And to Yusra |
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