Barbie is about to celebrate her 50th birthday on March 9th. I have fond memories of playing with these dolls for hours on end when I was a small child. I loved them so much that I used to beg my nine year younger sister to play with Barbies with me when I was in high school. She hated playing with them but I always convinced her to drag them out and play dress up with them. I never really thought of Barbie as having the perfect body that in reality no woman could actually attain. I never fantasized about looking exactly like her. She wasn’t the reason I was unsure of my looks. She was just a welcome escape from a dysfunctional family. I never dreamed that she would be the focus of a political debate.
A state delegate in West Virginia is pushing for legislation to ban the sale of Barbie Dolls. This moron is actually spending our hard earned tax dollars on this stupid shit. He said the dolls have encouraged girls to value their physical appearance more than their education and intelligence. His bill, HB 2918, would make it illegal to sell Barbie dolls "and other similar dolls that promote or influence girls to place an undue importance on physical beauty to the detriment of their intellectual and emotional development." While I may agree with the fact that many young girls do place more value on their physical beauty, I do not for one moment believe that this evolves from a doll. Society in general has more influence on our youth than one simple toy.
But by all means ignore that we are in one of the worst economic crises our country has ever witnessed and focus your efforts on a doll. Who cares if our state is the second poorest state in the nation? By all means throw our state into national headlines so that the rest of the country will have proof that West Virginians are stupid hicks! Didn’t the “Road Kill” law make us look dumb enough? Yes, we have a law that makes it legal to scoop up dead animal carcasses, haul them in our pick-up trucks and fry up a mess of possum for dinner.
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