We need to get back to selling Barbies that girls actually want to play with, not dolls we think will appeal to their feminist mothers. My own girls want a Barbie who is tall, thin and pretty. Does anyone seriously believe girls aspire to be fat electricians and "robot scientists"?
Personally, I'd like to keep my job more than I want to push my political opinions.
Hey dipsh-t. Father of two girls and damn proud of giving them the best example I can every day. GFY. I never insisted they be like the thick Barbie you dimwit.
Majority of barbies have their feet bound as children in china factories so they grow up to have tiny feet and can never stand on their own. That’s why they made ken.
Curvy Barbie was actually such a success that retailers wanted exclusives on this year’s Full Bush Barbie. WalMart was practicaly begging for it...You guys are way off...
Hahahaha! This is hilarious! Clearly, the angry commenter below who insists her daughter be like thick Barbie lest she throw herself off a tall building, is the disgruntled feminist mom the original poster refers to. LOL!
You’re missing the point - no one cares about Barbie because she’s just a fashion doll / she hasn’t changed her product configuration for 60 years! What do you expect? Eventually everything changes and Mattel’s fear of killing the golden goose has in fact, killed it.
Curvy barbie was our bestselling fashionista last year. Pay attention to the numbers you pleb.
Clearly not Mattel employees or they would know that Barbie has high heel and flat foot options across multiple body / ethnicity options across tons of girl-friendly careers. While we make some PR noise around a few key inspirational/aspirational careers, those are just a drop in the bucket.
Do some homework before you lazily troll. Yawn.
It’s just a fricken doll!
Tall, thin, and pretty are their aspirations? Wow...did you come in a time machine from the 50’s? And before someone says it, I’m not a millennial, but I’m certainly not stuck in the past where Trump felt America was great.
We get good press on Barbie instead of the normal body image, vapid personality, and god only knows what other complaints, and you come up with “thin and pretty.” Wtf?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! If all my daughter wanted to be is thin and pretty I’d need to throw myself off the tallest building I can find as I would have failed miserably as a parent.
And wth with the body shaming?! If you don’t like a thicker Barbie, move the hell on. You know where the door is. Go be tall, thin, and pretty plastic somewhere the hell else.
My kid would be happy if barbies could actually stand on their own without those ridiculous high heeled feet.
Lol!
Nothing, not even your precious job, is more important than advocating for diversity and inclusiveness in STEM field jobs. NOTHING!