Educating Parents Will Influence Their Views About Barbie

Introduction Barbie is one of the best-selling dolls in the world. This doll often resembles role models to young girls. What girl hasn’t had a Barbie doll in their lifetime? It is not unusual that at least 99% of girls in the population have or has had a Barbie. The main concern is with young girls up to the age of 10, with the idea image that Barbie provokes to these young minds.

One study took a group of 6th grade girls and had them play with Barbie’s, then later asked them what their views of Barbie were:

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the Barbie Doll, and the positive and negative impacts she has on society. Central Purpose: I will discuss how Barbie has effected women and the pedestal she has set upon us career wise since our youth. Introduction Quote; Once a wise female said “The first 10 years of a girls life is spent playing with Barbie, and the next 10 years are spent trying to look like one”

The Barbie dolls were invented in the year 1959 on March 9, by a American company called Mattel,inc. Barbie dolls have been around for the last 57 years it is a world wide known children toy that changes throughout the years. Barbie dolls play a major role in pop culture life in many ways. Barbie dolls reinforce the idea of fashion in the current year. They creates new styles of barbie dolls with different interests, this applies for barbies who show interest in pop, career interest women's, space barbie. Also barbie has empowered people to personal beliefs and society views such as body image and president barbie.

As a child, every girl dreamed of having a Barbie, but as an adult, I don’t think that was the maker’s objective to become an actual Barbie. “These skeptics in the Barbie debate view Barbie as a toy, stating that she does not have power or influence over little girls or grown women” (Virasin).

Young girls have been playing with Barbie dolls since the dolls inception at the American International Toy Fair in New York. Recently, researchers have been skeptical on whether the dolls have an effect on the self-image of girls who play with them. In order to determine if Barbies have an impact on young-girls self-concept, clinicians have carried out several studies where they monitor the interaction between the young girls and the famous figurine. From these experiments, scientists concluded that Barbies can have a bearing on a girls self-image, making the consumers who buy the doll more aware of the issue Barbie

Barbie has been a household name for decades and many kids around the world love and adore her greatly. Through the years Barbie has been at the top without any challengers to bring her down. Executives and shareholder love the way in which Barbie conquers all of the competition. Since its inception in 1945, Mattel has been collecting market intelligence in some form (Nash & Duvall, 2005). As a man, I even understood the importance of Barbie to little girls growing up. Around Christmas, Barbie had all the commercials appealing to the little girls and tweens.

It is making little girls see that when they get more mature or older it is okay to dress like Barbie in those revealing clothes to get attention especially from boys. I would love for young girls to know that it is many ways for them to look if they want to be successful and beautiful and not just by looking at the image of Barbie. Another topic that was pointed out in the article was that there is a very small percentage of young girls that actually look like Barbie and why is that? This to me is a horrible thing because some children truly do look up to Barbie from the way she looks and dresses and feel they can be socially accepted by following the protocol of Barbie. Even though Barbie seems to have all these negative effects, women still buy Barbie dolls for their daughters whether it’s for a birthday gift or

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has been a mainstream toy for young people in the U.S. In 1998, generally, young ladies in the U.s. claimed eight of these dolls and give or take two were bought consistently some place on the planet (Turkel, 1998). With every last bit of her notoriety and the determined part she plays in numerous young ladies ' lives, little research has yet been be carried out on whether she may have a hurtful impact on the advancement of the young ladies who cherish her.

they do not meet the image of the doll. It is known that a Barbie doll

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Introducing different body types in a doll may seem like a small change, but it will have a big impact on society. Barbie becoming more diverse will impact society positively, resulting in a more

Barbie’s image has cause a lot of controversy. There are many audiences who felt that Barbie’s body type would affect the way little girls viewed themselves. Barbie’s realistic appeal has influence little girl’s tremendously. Not only with the help of their imagination have many little girls begin to pretend to be like Barbie in fantasy world, there are some in actuality who try to make their hair and other aspects of themselves resemble Barbie. In some cases, there ae girls who begin to ask their parents why their bodies weren’t made like the doll’s, which raised more concerns to the parents. Many begin to question the company’s motives. Parents wanted to purchase dolls that had variety of body types, which in return would create

In the business of "Barbie" they plan to make the barbie dolls more unisex like. They plan to make barbie couches because most people think a couch is a boy's job. Also they plan to make Barbie doll teachers, vets, business managers, and museum workers. When little girls play with barbies they image them doing that job, and when little girls dream big they do big. So all together the "Barbie" company is improving equality between girls and boys. And to higher boy's confident they plan to make G.I.

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