1:6 femfig & fashion scrapbook, featuring action figure Barbie (a.k.a. artiBabs, Barbie-Jane)
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Why Barbie is So Thin
There are many Barbie-bashers who are critical of Barbie's measurements, claiming they promote a standard of beauty that is impossible for healthy/real women to attain. This, in turn, leads to a poor self-image of their own bodies, further leading to self-esteem issues. This criticism bespeaks a lack of understanding of the realities of scale miniaturism and why "her" creators gave "her" the measurements they did.
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