Every little girl at some point plays with a Barbie, they encompass the ideal female form and are for most girls an idol as a child. Everyone wants to look like Barbie or one of her side-kicks. Barbie has been featured in almost every type of career; doctor, lawyer, movie star, valley girl, scuba diver, princess, etc. While she has been a role model that a female can be anything she wants to be, her unreal figure has come under fire in recent years because it forces girls to try to reach an unattainable body shape.
Mattel the makers of the popular Barbie have just released the newest addition to the line of dolls, Tattoo Barbie. This doll comes with tattoos, a tattoo gun to apply the tattoos, and funky punk style clothes. This new Barbie has been under fire, many are criticising this new doll as promoting rebellion and getting tattoos. Many are worried that this is the end of the goody-goody Barbie roll model and the beginning of a more edgy, cool doll.
I think they may have taken things a little to far with this doll, what is going to be next? A Barbie with holes for piercings, or pregnant Barbie, I think Barbie should be a goody-goody roll model for your girls not tattooed and punk. As times change so do toys, but kids need positive roll models, as a child I had career Barbies, what are kids going to want to be when they grow up when their toys are tattoo covered? a tattoo artist?
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