Мнениеот Cherepaha » Вто 25 юли 2006 14:50
Barbie
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Body image
Along with the popularity, more controversial topics occur. Barbie has drawn criticism from parents and anorexia nervosa groups for interfering with the development of a healthy body image. They argue that the images and messages of "beauty". Barbie has problematic measurements: she stands a "too perfect to be real "body shape. A lot of young girls may expect themselves to have the same figure as Barbie's and to push themselves to lose weight in order to be as thin as possible, ignorant of the fact that Barbie's proportions are unattainable; her neck is twice as long (in proportion) as the neck of a normal woman and her legs are longer than her torso. It is often quoted that "For a woman to have Barbie's body, she would have to be 7 feet, 2 inches in height; weigh 115-130 pounds; have 30 to 36 inch hips; an 18 to 23 inch waist; and a 38 to 48 inch bust. If she were a real person, Barbie would have to crawl around on all fours just to support her unnatural proportions, and she would not even have the 17 to 22 percent body fat that is required for a woman to menstruate." But when you consider that 1) If Barbie, a sixthscale figure (two inches=one foot), were supposed to be 7 feet tall in real life she'd have to be over 14 inches tall and 2) sixth scale and smaller figures are often made slimmer so that human-scale fabric will not look so bulky on them, then the comments have less bearing on body image reality. Unfortunately, a lot more body image problems have to do with what girls see glorified in the media-women in magazines, movies and TV who will starve themselves into anorexia to be accepted as 'beautiful'.