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[–][deleted] 1558 points1559 points ago

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Barbies are designed to wear clothes.

At that scale, the seams on the clothes cause the clothing to bulge out. To solve this, the doll's body is reshaped so that clothes fit naturally. This is why the dolls have small waists and large busts.

The space at the waist for the seams should be clear on both dolls in the picture, with the difference being that the one on the right is designed to look more human while still accommodating the seams.

[–]AndYourWorldWillBurn 303 points304 points ago

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Also almost all women I've met tend to be physically more approximate to the one on the right. I have yet to meet someone with a chest like the one's on the left.

Then again... you never know.

[–]SockyMcSockSock 79 points80 points ago

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I'm more like the barbie on the left, stupidly broad and muscular shoulders with a protruding breast bone (opposite of pigeon chested)...My friends would joke that I must have been designed for a set of wings that were out of stock, so I was shipped without ಠ_ಠ

[–]ricktencity 77 points78 points ago

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Brienne?

[–]SockyMcSockSock 72 points73 points ago*

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of Tarth at your service. Now if you don't mind I must be on my way, I have a vow to uphold!

[–]Sulicius 31 points32 points ago

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Clever wench...

[–]Mini-Marine 20 points21 points ago

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I am shocked about how excited I am that you understood the reference!

I need to finish re-reading book 4 so I can finally get around to reading book 5.

[–][deleted] 50 points51 points ago

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A Song of Ice and Fire isn't popular at all on reddit.

[–]Ziddletwix 20 points21 points ago

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It's a pretty underground series... only the hardest core people who read stuff on the bestseller list have read the novels.

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points ago

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once dated a very pretty and kind blonde with a protruding breast bone. i enjoyed my time with her.

[–]Pemby 5 points6 points ago

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My ribs are misshapen so if you view me in profile, from the left I look like the left Barbie and on the right I look more like the right Barbie although the bottom ribs on the right poke out and down with a sharp bit at the bottom.

At least you're symmetrical. :/

[–]AndYourWorldWillBurn 2 points3 points ago

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Again, just observations from personal experience. Not making any value judgments here.

[–]the_french_army 2 points3 points ago

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Your friends are bitches.

[–]SockyMcSockSock 13 points14 points ago

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Nope, just Australian. Why avoid the broad shouldered elephant in the room when you can turn it into a running in-joke?

[–]cyberslick188 134 points135 points ago

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This is what I came to say. There isn't some conspiracy to dominate little girls opinions on what their bodies should look like based on barbie dolls.

If people want to get offended about pressuring women's body opinions go get mad about magazine airbrushing not $10 pieces of plastic. I have never seen a body like the barbie on the left, but I sure have seen thousands of them like the one on the right.

[–]PrettyPony 27 points28 points ago

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I Like a woman with a good head on her shoulders.

[–]AndYourWorldWillBurn 63 points64 points ago

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And boy, do we enjoy it.

[–]teh_tg 17 points18 points ago

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Yes.

[–]canolicat 4 points5 points ago

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What you can't see from this view is that they also just readjusted her proportions to be far more natural. If I remember right, her waist and hips now are a good bit wider. As a girl who grew up on the early 90's Barbies, I was thrilled when they changed her. She looks much better, and as a little girl, that skinny bitch wasn't a good model of what I should aim for to be pretty one day.

[–]AndYourWorldWillBurn 4 points5 points ago

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Good thing you didn't have to surgically embolster your chest to live up to that old "ideal".

[–]Infoclast 2 points3 points ago

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Yes, "barrel chested" is not often used to describe women.

[–]quigley0 448 points449 points ago

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This should be up-voted higher. For some reason everyone wants to make barbie out to be a battle for what girls think bodies should look like, when really it is a battle for what girls think clothes should look like. :-)

[–][deleted] 238 points239 points ago

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Recalling my childhood most of my female friends had naked Barbies. Their outfits being lost ages ago.

[–]lessthan3d[!] 302 points303 points ago

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Don't forget about the shoes, those were gone first. I'm not entirely convinced they existed.

[–]mimpatcha 142 points143 points ago

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They came with shoes?

[–]toinfinitiandbeyond 230 points231 points ago

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I know I do.

[–]AwesomeMandy 12 points13 points ago

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I always tried to save the shoes, but much like socks, at least one always disappeared. Now I'm sad.

[–]GalacticWhale 5 points6 points ago

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Wait... socks? I think my brother and me ate my sister's barbie's socks. Would explain him though,,,

[–]Kandarian 8 points9 points ago

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Wow. My brothers just ripped the heads off my Barbies to teach me valuable life lessons. They never went as far as consuming parts of my toys.

[–]armyofbono 24 points25 points ago

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i know i'm just supposed to upvote and not comment when I have nothing to add...but this was chuckle-out-loud worthy.

[–]ello_again 16 points17 points ago

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This is the internet, do whatever the fuck you want...

(while you can.)

[–]toinfinitiandbeyond 2 points3 points ago

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I know I do.

[–]Froggy_hop 4 points5 points ago

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Icwutyoudidthar.

[–]pimpernel666 38 points39 points ago

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With my daughters' Barbies I just collect the shoes as soon as Barbie hops out of her box. I've never known a little girl to give more than half a crap about the shoes and this way the cats can't eat them.

[–]bethSMASH 37 points38 points ago

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You're taking away the joy for all the adults in the house who have to use the bathroom at 2 am and find Barbie's stiletto embedded in their big toe.

But the bit about the cat eating them? That's spot on.

[–]cultured_banana_slug 2 points3 points ago

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Barbie shoes and Lego bricks: the landmines of childhood.

[–]bethSMASH 2 points3 points ago

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Landmines of parenthood / big siblinghood / babysitting. As a child, I didn't step on a single one. I feel like the day I hit 13 those damn things were EVERYWHERE

[–]zebrawarrior 5 points6 points ago

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Oh man I used to love those shoes...

[–]danicrusher 2 points3 points ago

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when i moved to college, my parents gave me the couch from our old play room. as we were moving it into my new apartment, some barbie shoes fell out of the couch. my mom and i had a moment...it was lovely

[–]logboy 5 points6 points ago

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Feed your cats.

[–]pimpernel666 9 points10 points ago

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I do. Plastic shoes. And smartasses.

[–]spectraline 18 points19 points ago

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As far as I was concerned, Barbie shoes were for chewing on. The 80s plastic smelled so good I thought that the only logical next step was to put it in my mouth. Yes, even when I was 10.

[–]xanoran84 8 points9 points ago

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You're not alone. I had some world gymnastics barbie with the elbow joints and flat feet. She came with little white sneakers and I would gnaw on those suckers like a lab rat

[–]Pwag 11 points12 points ago

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Ken takes them to work in his toolbox so Barbie can't leave the house.

[–]RedditRedneck 7 points8 points ago

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[–]ToastmahGhost 2 points3 points ago

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yeah and they're just small enough to get in your nose and just big enough that they don't come out

[–]lacienega 35 points36 points ago

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Whenever I met another girl who had a Barbie still with its shoes and still with all the clothes and accessories it came with I was highly suspicious of them. My Barbie would be naked or wearing clothes stolen from other random toys that would eventually get lost too and this girl would still have her own original Barbie shoes. Moments like that and I felt like my mother had failed me in some way and in turn, I had failed my Barbie.

[–]henshao 18 points19 points ago

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off topic: I have you in RES tagged with "london phonebooth urinal" and I don't remember why.

[–]lacienega 9 points10 points ago

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You've encountered me on a night out?

Just kidding, my mother didn't fail me and my Barbie that badly. We all know squatting in one of those things is impossible. Maybe it was from this discussion? Now everyone's gonna think I'm a phonebox urinator with naked no-shoe Barbies on RES and I'll be shamed for life.

[–]Xanthan81 5 points6 points ago

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Your tag in yellow: phonebox urinator with naked no-shoe Barbies

:)

[–]lacienega 12 points13 points ago

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I have a feeling those girls who kept their Barbie shoes are living a life of meaning and great wonder, and here I am pissing in phoneboxes. Let me be the girl all your daughter's learn from.

[–]Bitter_Idealist 5 points6 points ago

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Or just one of each pair.

[–]geekychica 3 points4 points ago

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I always found that a little sad. Half the fun I had with my Barbies was coordinating their outfits and dressing them up, and (once I was old enough to sew) making more clothes for them. When I was little, I had quite a few Barbies that wore dresses fashioned from old socks...

[–]captain_asparagus 27 points28 points ago

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Not only this, but the cloth itself is proportionally thicker. And clothes simply cannot drape, hang, stretch, or shape at that scale the same way they do on a real person. Yes, the unclothed versions look ridiculous, but let's compare how they look once you put the Barbie outfits on (y'know, since that's how you're supposed to play with them ಠ_ಠ) before we go making judgments.

[–]MikeOfAllPeople 11 points12 points ago

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Yea I always thought they were to look like the women in the clothing design sketches.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points ago

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Agreed, but I am just going to say right now that I NEVER understood those sketches. No human looks like that, so why design clothes that look good on those imaginary figures? If I wanted to make a dress I would design it to look good on a human body, not a sketch-lady whose height is 90% leg and has 1% body fat.

Just curious, hoping someone can shed some light on the subject.

[–]Ampersamd 9 points10 points ago

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They don't actually design the clothes to fit those proportions. They sketch it out so they know what they want it to look like, then they use a mannequin that has more accurate human proportions.

They usually sketch it like that just because it looks better than a more realistic sketch does.

[–]znine 5 points6 points ago

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In addition to what Amersamd said, design isn't always about making something practical. It's a similar idea to concept cars. They are showing off their design abilities/ideas. The designs may be used as a base for the aesthetic of their products, but they are not necessarily intended to be sold in their current form.

[–]ExplainsTheObvious 34 points35 points ago

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I am not convinced that this is the only reason the body is shaped this way, but this is an interesting idea that sounds plausible.

[–]HotRodLincoln 20 points21 points ago

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There's also the bonus, using less plastic.

[–]SwampySoccerField 14 points15 points ago

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Probably because it was easier to do at the time. Any introduction to Art History class shows this same trend.

[–]deaddog692000 1 point2 points ago

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Very good explanation. Do you work for Mattel?

[–]Soileau 1 point2 points ago

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You've given this a lot of thought.

[–]BrainInAJar 1158 points1159 points ago

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she looks more like a real woman now instead of a weird misshapen freak?

[–]MLJHydro 104 points105 points ago

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The reason the 90's Barbie torso looks misshapen to us today is because we don't often use the shaping undergarments that were common in the 50's, when Barbie's old torso design was implemented. Look at a picture of a woman from the 50's, notice that her torso appears to be a similar cone shape. Barbie's old torso is an exaggeration of the body shape that was idealized at the time.

Source: I'm a costume designer that specializes in historical undergarments.

[–]NOACeulemans 575 points576 points ago

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Seriously, the old one looks like a beefy male chest with boobs tacked on.

[–]cultured_banana_slug 44 points45 points ago

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The barbies with "rings" always freaked me out. They had holes drilled through their hands so you could slam a ring spike in there. I got in trouble for calling them Jesus barbies. :(

[–]JacksInflatedEgo 68 points69 points ago

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What you don't know is that was actually a Ken doll. The head is missing so we can't quite verify.

[–]NOACeulemans 84 points85 points ago

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in that case... DOSE PECS.

[–]mrcrazydrawrs 4 points5 points ago

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Reminds me of the bulky imps on Zero Punctuation

[–]eat_abagofdicks 1 point2 points ago

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I agree. she looks like she has COPD.

[–]spazzmckiwi 77 points78 points ago

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Yeah, adding the head was a nice human-like touch.

[–]if_you_say_so 146 points147 points ago

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We've gotten better at molding plastic more accurately for cheap?

[–]saladtossing 375 points376 points ago

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NO! Something something something idealized female body something something eating disorder

[–]BrainInAJar 139 points140 points ago

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obesity epidemic something something we evolved to run around eating almost no carbs and lean meats something something athletic women are what we should look like something.

[–]TheGreatWhiteNinja 120 points121 points ago

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Something something you don't even have a body. Something something you're just a brain in a jar something something

[–]excited_by_typos 61 points62 points ago

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Something or other seventeen magazine another thing justin bieber something something photoshopped tits something or another kardashians

[–]captain_smartass 108 points109 points ago

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Something something Dark Side. Something something complete.

[–][deleted] 38 points39 points ago

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Something something combo something breaker.

[–]MuggyFuzzball 20 points21 points ago

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something something insult something old meme something something

[–]someweirdguy 21 points22 points ago

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Something.

[–]MuggyFuzzball 31 points32 points ago

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You're weird.

[–]m4sc4r4 7 points8 points ago

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Is this woman athletic or just modeling?

[–]BrainInAJar 2 points3 points ago

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I don't know. Point is look at the top half of any given marathon run and that's basically what we've evolved to look like. Lots of running around plains and eating lean meat, not a lot of eating carbs and watching TV.

[–]dieselnut 19 points20 points ago

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Where is the head?!

[–]soyabstemio 69 points70 points ago

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Women didn't have heads in the 90s.

[–]Xanthan81 39 points40 points ago

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She gave it to her boyfriend.

I'll be here all night. Tip your waitresses!

[–]KevfromSD 50 points51 points ago

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I'm more of an ass man than tits. So I see an improvement.

[–]ExplainsTheObvious 50 points51 points ago

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I love tits and I see an improvement. WTF was up with her toso?

[–]wankerschnitzel 43 points44 points ago

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mmmm...Toso
TIL

[–]PastorPaul 49 points50 points ago

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[–]candacelaine 10 points11 points ago

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While I agree with you, I sympathize with 00's Barbie. The poor woman looks like she's had her lower back smashed in with a bat. I would be in a wheelchair if I were shaped like that.

[–]MotherFuckingCupcake 15 points16 points ago

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I have a pretty similar arch, and I'm not in a wheelchair.

[–]InfiniteLiveZ 5 points6 points ago

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Don't argue with people on Reddit, don't you know we're all medical experts? We're essentially doctors. Go get yourself a wheelchair ASAP.

[–]squirrelscout 8 points9 points ago

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She just looks ready for sex, is all.

[–]awesomedave680 1 point2 points ago

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haha, built like a brick shit-house

[–]patternfall 323 points324 points ago

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It's almost like we've gotten better at molding plastic.

[–]ObamaisYoGabbaGabba 108 points109 points ago

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no no this is a commentary on how the toy companies are ruining the body image of women, please stay on topic.

[–]Tfish 77 points78 points ago

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If people want to point out dolls that are ruining young girls, then they need to go after those bratz dolls.

They look like they were all born with fetal alcohol syndrome, and hydrocephalus.

[–]jettrscga 46 points47 points ago

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And worst of all, in New Jersey.

[–]D14BL0 9 points10 points ago

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Except this image shows how Mattel has actually adjusted to the actual form of a woman's body, instead of an odd, triangular shape of the past that no woman in the world actually had.

[–]RoachOnATree0116 500 points501 points ago

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Ever since they started putting heads on them the expectation has just become to much on young women

[–]mauxly 53 points54 points ago

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00''s Barbie: 100% more head.

[–]stdtm 18 points19 points ago

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Giggity

[–]adokimus 8 points9 points ago

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That's not how percentages work.

[–]ICANSEEYOUFAPPING[!] 61 points62 points ago

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Came here to make sure someone mentioned the missing head...

[–]lifeis 34 points35 points ago

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Came here to say "me too", to the guy that commented "you beat me to it" to the guy that commented anything about the missing head.

[–]rimo 29 points30 points ago

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I came.

[–]Aztecius 2 points3 points ago

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We got no foooood, we got no jobssss, our dolls' HEADS ARE FALLIN' OFF!

[–]Ahh_Gene_Parmesan 1 point2 points ago

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Came here to make sure I tell you to shut up.

[–]imyourplusone 89 points90 points ago

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False - 90s barbies originally had heads.

Source - I remember. I used to rip off their heads when they cheated on Ken with GI Joe.

[–]ImaGirlnStuff 41 points42 points ago

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I used to chew on their feet. I just now realized how weird that is.

[–]Nervebible 25 points26 points ago

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I chewed the fingers off of mine. I left the thumbs alone though, so they appeared to be in a constant state of approval.

[–]ImaGirlnStuff 3 points4 points ago

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Nice, nibbling away until you have a little source of encouragement.

[–]deedlezx 15 points16 points ago

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ok i know its weird but i would sometimes too. they were so rubbery. i'm not weird i promise...

[–]erpfei 1 point2 points ago

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Are you my sister? She chewed all my Barbies hands over my first few days of school. The story was that she was jealous I got to go to kindergarten without her. Or, she missed me or something.

[–]Kayleanetta 1 point2 points ago

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they were the best thing to chew on... I commend you on your choice of appendage treat

[–]effervescence 1 point2 points ago

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I think the point is that none of the 90's dolls still have their heads, primarily because of brothers like you.

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[–]Alibababonanza 1 point2 points ago

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I stole my brothers gi joes and "max payne" dolls so I could give my barbies bf's. It was easy once I told him he was a girl for playing with dolls. I was mean :( haha

[–]Hobbes4247791 59 points60 points ago

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All right, quick question:

How do you pronounce "00's"?

[–]nox_fox 155 points156 points ago

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You don't. Just avoid talking about it except in writing.

[–]oogew 48 points49 points ago

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I love that we collectively decided as a planet to ignore this question for ten straight years.

[–]queenofshovels 12 points13 points ago

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I love that it's pretty much the only thing we have been able to collectively accomplish.

[–]gerbs 108 points109 points ago

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The aughts.

[–]Ray57 56 points57 points ago

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the naughties.

[–]the_showerhead[!] 9 points10 points ago

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Mythbusters did an episode comparing cars from different eras, they called the 00's the... I don't know how to spell it but it's pronounced "Naughties". They also needed a small segment to explain that's what you call the 00's. I'm still going to say the thousands.

[–]reposter_guy 2 points3 points ago

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Noughties.

[–]RadicalFaces 22 points23 points ago

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[–]Wazowski 1 point2 points ago

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  • The Ohs
  • The Oh-ohs
  • The two-thousands
  • The aughts
  • The aughties
  • The noughts
  • The noughties

[–]APiousCultist 3 points4 points ago

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I love Barbie in the naughties. creepy smile

[–]ismelldeath 247 points248 points ago

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It wasn't until the 00's that barbie had a head. She kept giving it to Ken.

[–]the_real_woody 41 points42 points ago

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We all know Ken is the one that gives head.

[–]wanking_furiously 3 points4 points ago

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Q: Why did Barbie never get pregnant?

A: Ken came in a different box.

[–]stonedotjimmy 91 points92 points ago

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thank god she's no longer barrel chested

[–]Rephlex 20 points21 points ago

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The awareness about the risks of smoking have really brought down COPD rates in teen-age plastic figurines.

[–]Wraith12 27 points28 points ago

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Reddit: Where men can talk about dolls.

[–]noseham 51 points52 points ago

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The one on the left has no ass and the rib cage of a gorilla. Could it be that the manufacturers just wanted a more life-like design?

I suppose this is trying to make some point about putting unrealistic expectations on girl's body image. There's hardly any difference between this argument and claiming that violent video games turn kids into criminals. If a girl grows up with poor self esteem, I think it's safe to say that there are plenty of more pressing issues in her development than the fact that she happened to have owned a few barbies. There may be some negligible factor they play, but this is so clearly a non-issue and I'm sick of hearing it.

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[–]hackysack 164 points165 points ago

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[–]omginorite 26 points27 points ago

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[–]Canuck147 16 points17 points ago

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[–]Porunga 37 points38 points ago

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What an oddly high resolution picture.

[–]Canuck147 10 points11 points ago

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[–]nostatic 19 points20 points ago

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TIL i have lordosis :(

[–]sandusky_hohoho 21 points22 points ago

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All (healthy) humans have lodorsis in the lower spine and at the neck. It's a good thing (within reason). It was actually a physiological adaptation that humans picked up right around the time we started to become efficient bipedal walkers (See the third blurb in the "Other" section of the Lodorsis wiki page)

[–]loercase 32 points33 points ago

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And let's be honest, lordosis is fucking hot.

[–]Avysis 5 points6 points ago

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I honestly think I have it too looking at the diagram.. ._.

[–]sandusky_hohoho 6 points7 points ago

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This is not a bad thing. Lodorsis is a natural feature of a healthy human spine (see my comment, one level up)

[–]blart_history 39 points40 points ago

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Okay, listen y'all. I'm a woman, I owned like 100 Barbies, and I'm a feminist. I know many women who have acquired eating disorders for a myriad of reasons, but owning a Barbie was never one of them. That is not to say that nobody has gotten a disorder that stems from their Barbie dolls, but seriously, they are, in no way, causing the downfall of society.

[–]Whirledpeas1129 5 points6 points ago

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I don't think you can blame body image on any one thing, but, rather, you need to look at media as a whole. We live in an age when people idealize thin women. I just read an article the other day that explained how the Victoria Secret models go on a liquid diet for nearly two weeks before their fashion show, and then they stop eating even liquids entirely for about 24 before the show to be as thin as possible.

This doesn't mean I (or people like me) am fighting to say that being obese is good. Rather, it's sad how extreme thinness is marketed to women. If you turn on the TV, you can notice how men often come in different shapes. Male newscasters can be hefty and balding and old. Men can star in shows and have a beer gut. When you look at women on TV, you'll notice that almost all of them are thin and pretty. It's just not acceptable for women to be portrayed as anything else.

There have been surveys done in the last few years that have shown girls as young as 3 worry about being fat. Three years old. Three.

Maybe you can't point to Barbie and say she is why girls have body image issues. Maybe you can't point to Cosmo and say that is why girls have body image issues. But when you look at everything as a whole... when you see that the only female body type we're exposed to in media is tall and extremely thin... you'll start to see an idealized image that is impossible for most women to obtain.

[–]blart_history 5 points6 points ago

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Oh totally, I am sick of absurdly hot women in 100% of roles on television and in movies. However, I also think that it's silly to raise a Barbie in the air like it's the damn DOLL'S fault. It's not. It's so much more complicated then, "Well the Barbie is skinny." I think a lot of your everyday body-image pressure comes from the idea of male-gaze, which realistically has nothing to do with a Barbie doll. It has a lot to do with guys who go see whatever freaking movie and see Megan Foxes compared to Jonah Hills and make relentless jokes about how ugly Sarah Jessica Parker is.

[–]solidcurrency 15 points16 points ago

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She's shaped like Skipper.

[–]adzey 35 points36 points ago

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Damn, she has aged well.

[–]canadamoose18 6 points7 points ago

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Some serious anterior pelvic tilt.

[–]Alibababonanza 12 points13 points ago

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I never played with my Barbie and thought. I wish I looked like this :((. For one I was like seven and didn't even want boobs. And two I dont even think I knew what the term body image was. Now rainbow brite.. That's the bitch I wanted to be.

[–]iowa116 25 points26 points ago

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So Barbie grew a head in 2000?

[–]Necavi 22 points23 points ago

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Definitely surprised no one has brought up a feminist perspective on this one just yet.

But for a comparison, take a look at how male action figures have changed throughout the decades: Scroll down to page 71 if you don't feel like reading the sociological stuff

[–]youknowthedrill 12 points13 points ago

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Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo ?

[–][deleted] 47 points48 points ago

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Leia: I love you.

Hans Solo: Ja, ich weiß.

[–]ABitCurious 2 points3 points ago

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pope.pdf

[–]johnyquest 12 points13 points ago

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Well thank god someone fixed her, finally. Took them long enough.

[–]clutterbang 21 points22 points ago

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Seems to me both time periods are emphasizing the most conventionally fuckable features a woman can be bestowed. Firstly, the tiny waist and ample bust (not expertly sculpted, slightly comically exaggerated), and secondly on the right, smooth flat stomach and protruding ribcage (not very obvious from this angle, but a quick wander through your Barbie doll isle will reveal they're almost half as prominent as the breasts). Mattel aren't conspiring to make little girls insecure about their bodies for kicks, it's just that they focus on making these dolls as beautiful and fashionable, as perfect and pretty as possible, just so every little girl will WAAAAAAANT it, with all of her psyche, as much as they can make her. If she doesn't yearn to have what the doll has, how would they make money? Encouraging curiosity and intelligence? Nope. They're fashion dolls. They're about being beautiful. That's what they're about. And the problem is, that's just not feasible for everyone, or even useful. I agree the doll on the right is more realistic, I don't believe the one on the left is any less sexist, or oppressive, (it's just a typical fuckable hourglass shape, however exaggerated) however I've seen these newer dolls in person and they definitely do not represent a common body shape. They fucking do not. Like someone in this thread said - everybody can't be beautiful, because beauty wouldn't exist in that context. They don't make Barbie dolls to look like fucking everyone.

[–]Tredici_13 3 points4 points ago

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looks like Barbie stopped bench pressing.

[–]bestbiff 3 points4 points ago

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The 00's barbie's dimensions are more realistic in case you haven't already read that 100 times.

[–]xyroclast 4 points5 points ago

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In all fairness, the one on the right is a lot more plausible than the one on the left. How many women do you know what are shaped like an inverted cone?

[–]Peek_a_Bo0 6 points7 points ago

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Not a comment about the missing head

[–]aerynjbson 18 points19 points ago

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the 00 babrie looks like a women whos fit and in shape. I'm ok with this.

[–]distortednet 17 points18 points ago

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insert rant about consumerism shaping society and how they are intertwined here

[–]generalchaoz 7 points8 points ago

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Last time I saw this the number one comment was something like

"90's barbie was a linebacker and benched 200lbs"

[–]texmed 2 points3 points ago

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Dang, so 90's Barbie had some emphysema

[–]RonaldFuckingPaul 2 points3 points ago

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let me know when the 2010 models come out

[–]WaitThisIsntDigg 2 points3 points ago

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I see now why girls in the 90's felt so pressured to be headless. pathetic really. How do you sleep at night corporate america?

[–]Hebes 7 points8 points ago

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Man, 00's Barbie has a really bad case of Lordosis.

[–]Nicktendo 27 points28 points ago

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What's wrong with encouraging people to be healthy anyway? America is wayyy too fat. Sorry if your feelings are hurt, but I don't want us to be fat pansies any longer! Shit!

[–]johnkong 38 points39 points ago

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You're so insensitive! We can't help being fat! We have a disease! stuffs face with cheeseburger

[–]alive41stime 11 points12 points ago

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And all I eat is vegetables. I order them in all the time.

[–]Anonymous_Bosch 1 point2 points ago

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00s Barbie is hot.

[–]Sukoh 1 point2 points ago

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Why do you have these things laying around?

ಠ_ಠ

[–]jackelope 1 point2 points ago

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Just going to say... I played with barbie, ken, and a rabbit doll as a child. I never thought I was expected to look like any of the three, and grew up to be what I feel is fairly well-adjusted.

[–]D14BL0 1 point2 points ago

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To be fair, the 00's Barbie actually looks like an actual human female body. The 90's Barbie looks like motherfucking Alice the Goon.

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Injection molding techniques have come on quite a bit haven't they

[–]ebscot 1 point2 points ago

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I would totally do 00's Barbie.

[–]poop_lol 1 point2 points ago

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90's Barbie had a big-ass ribcage.

[–]kirakun 1 point2 points ago

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NSFW?

[–]blackhighheels 1 point2 points ago

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First of all it's a doll! Second, children don't think the same way adults do about barbies, unless there is a parent out there teaching their child that Barbies figure is "way out of proportion". It's about imagination! One of the greatest things to have when growing up. I played with barbies all the time and not once thought of how "skinny" she was or how good her "boob job" looked. I was too busy "going shopping" with barbie or "hopping in the pink jeep to go for a drive". I wonder what would happen if Mattel suddenly made obese barbie. Would parents say "oh honey she's too fat", "that's disgusting". Why not focus on feeding your children a healthy balanced diet, turn the tv off once in a while and go outside and play instead of blaming a doll for how awful it is to be fat or skinny.

[–]foyoinformation 1 point2 points ago

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Looks like she gained a little junk in the trunk aaaaand scoliosis.

[–]Dogonmylap 1 point2 points ago

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90's Barbie looks like she could bench press a house.

[–]eyezofblue 1 point2 points ago

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Uses less plastic = environmentally friendly Barbie.

[–]TronCorleone 1 point2 points ago

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So we added a head and subtracted underwear?

[–]iamcq 1 point2 points ago

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i don't see the problem. they both have small breasts

[–]azrhia 1 point2 points ago

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I just want to know why 90's Barbie doesn't have a head.... O.o

[–]joshbike 1 point2 points ago

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I'm glad she stopped bleaching her ass.

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Oh come ON. Don't act like if a girl that looks like the one on the right wanted to have sex with you, you'd say no. My body is shaped very similar to the one on the right. Making me feel bad because I am slim is the same as making someone feel bad because they are fat. We shouldn't be promoting fat or skinny. We should be promoting healthy.

[–]ohiostatefan24 1 point2 points ago

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I've got one friend who looks like the one on the left and all her friends look like the one on the right. Needless to say she.... sticks out :D

[–]Killen4money 1 point2 points ago

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They didn't have heads in the 90's?

[–]VampirePirateNinja 1 point2 points ago

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Um...I remember my Barbies having heads in the 90s

[–]SystemError69 1 point2 points ago

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Barbies didn't have heads in the 90s?

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I have no problem for the later design for any reason.

[–]redd9 1 point2 points ago

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new one is hotter