saving girls from themselves

I think they should outlaw Madison Avenue (is that too much of a NYC reference?).

That's a great idea.

BBB

I think people who believe they know whats best for other people and are willing to ban things based on their beliefs should be banned.

As much as I think that the entire concept of "Barbie" and their ilk sucks, I don't think that a government has the right to ban these products.

I believe in banning, but it should be by the customers, not the government. If that crap did not sell, Mattel would stop making them.

I think looking at magazines like Vogue, Cosmo, Playboy, Elle, Glamour etc. did more to make me (and my girlfriends) insecure and materialistic than any doll.

My nine year old daughter likes to sing:
I'm a Barbie girl
In a Barbie world
My body's made of plastic
I think I'm so fantastic

I guess the proper role of government is to regulate every aspect of our lives and to make sure that we're right-thinkers. Those who have wrong ideas can be helped at re-education camps.

Yeah, right Brandon . . .

The sky is falling, the sky is falling ! ! !

This is silliness. I speak as no Barbie fan, mostly for perplexed aesthetic reasons and a few of the regular qualms, while knowing that millions of little girls have enjoyed having them and appreciating that. I don't think they're really so different in effect than the zillion little dolls available in my childhood. A friend of my husband and me even took Mattel to the supremes to defend his right to ridicule Barbie in his art, and won. Talk about a slippery slope, let's ban all dolls..

I'm not so sure the people behind this ban, or in front of it, expect it to succeed re any challenges in court; it could just be a ploy to motivate people not to buy them.

... what about the kid who lost both her eyes?

Yeah, well, what about people who think people who believe they know whats best for other people and are willing to ban things based on their beliefs should be banned? Huh?



Actually, I agree with you. We're already way too regulated, monitored, and controlled.

A must watch.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0d4lOYKb8I&feature=related

Straw man. I didn't say it was serious or important. I only said that it's a bad idea representing a fascistic outlook.

You can have my Barbie when you pry her from my cold, dead Barbilicious fingers.

You claim it is not serious or important, but then you write:



. . . having made an idiotic remark about re-education camps.

So, i repeat:

The sky is falling, the sky is falling ! ! !

Barbie's don't make girls do anything.

Sheesh.

Why are parents so quick to blame everything but their parenting?

A very good, and a very apt question in this situation. What is silliest about this is that if such a measure passed, it would simply mean that sales of Barbie dolls would increase in Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.

<snort>

I think people who need to be saved from themselves, don't deserve to be saved from themselves.