Move over Barbie

[Kathi]

Lets face it Barbie was not a healthy image for a young girl.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/us/anti-barbie-doll-lammily/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

-- It began for Nickolay Lamm as a question: What would Barbie look like if she had the dimensions of an average woman?

His answer came in the form of the Lammily doll: a shorter, broader, brunette version of the idealistic blond Mattel doll.

Now Lammily is ready to make her debut, complete with a sticker pack that features pimples, moles, cellulite and scars that can be applied.

"I feel she looks so real, so ordinary, that you don't focus on what she looks like but ... on what she does," he said by telephone on Wednesday.

That perspective helped propel Lamm's crowd-funding effort to build the doll.

 

[Obadiah]

Wow, I was skeptical until I looked at the link with the picture. She really DOES look a lot more like a real girl! I don't think it's good to encourage kids to be fat and ugly like some of the things I've seen, but this doll is cute and healthy looking while still looking like a real person that a kid can aspire to actually be! Good job! (Even from a guy's point of view!)

 

[Kathi]

Wow, I was skeptical until I looked at the link with the picture. She really DOES look a lot more like a real girl! I don't think it's good to encourage kids to be fat and ugly like some of the things I've seen, but this doll is cute and healthy looking while still looking like a real person that a kid can aspire to actually be! Good job! (Even from a guy's point of view!)

"Encourage a kid to be fat and ugly?" I will have to digest that statement for awhile.:neutral

 

[evenifigoalone]

Heard about the plans for this earlier this year. It's awesome.

 

[evenifigoalone]

"Encourage a kid to be fat and ugly?" I will have to digest that statement for awhile.:neutral

Ever heard of the "anti fat shaming" movement?

 

[Kathi]

Well,shallow came to mind at first

shallow. The adjective shallow can describe things that aren't very deep, like a shallow puddle, or people who don't have much emotional or intellectual depth, like shallow people who judge others on their looks and how much money they have

 

[Obadiah]

"Encourage a kid to be fat and ugly?" I will have to digest that statement for awhile.:neutral

Yeah, that's a bad thing.

 

[Kathi]

Yeah, that's a bad thing.

How can a person encourage a child to be fat and ugly?

 

[AirDancer]

Barbie is a doll, a toy. For people to go so far overboard in making Barbie to be anything more than a doll is ridiculous. When I was young, I didn't equate her to be a source of inspiration or a model of what I wanted to look like when I grew up, and my daughters didn't either.

For society now to proclaim size 12 as a Plus-size, I say: 'Nonsense.' Many women would not be healthy to be a size 0 or size 2.

Society is too obsessed with stick-thin, anorexic-looking runway models.

 

[evenifigoalone]

How can a person encourage a child to be fat and ugly?

By telling them that saying that being fat is unhealthy is offensive.

 

[evenifigoalone]

I don't have anything against Barbie and I played with them as a kid, but I know that some girls would try to have a body likes her's, or wanted to. My mom once told me that that happened to her as a kid.

 

[Kathi]

If a person is fat are they automatically ugly?

 

[Gary]

The video in the story wouldn't play, so I grabbed one from Youtube.

 

[Gary]

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Deborah13]

This is a great idea, well done.
I went to the website, her clothes are really cute too.

 

[evenifigoalone]

If a person is fat are they automatically ugly?

No, but some individuals see all the emphasis on society's definition of beauty (which is shallow and problematic) and instead of responding logically they respond in such a polarized fashion as to go too far in the opposite direction.

 

[Kathi]

No, but some individuals see all the emphasis on society's definition of beauty (which is shallow and problematic) and instead of responding logically they respond in such a polarized fashion as to go too far in the opposite direction.

Ok there is that word "shallow" that is how I look at how many in this world see others.

 

[Gary]

No, but some individuals see all the emphasis on society's definition of beauty (which is shallow and problematic) and instead of responding logically they respond in such a polarized fashion as to go too far in the opposite direction.

I agree. Society has taken body weight and made it one of the characteristics of beauty.

 

[Willie T]

I was startlingly impressed at the glaringly opposite contrasts some of the kids attributed to each of the dolls. Barbie seemed to elicit images of the negative stereotypes of the typical cliquish "cheer-leader" kind of girl, while the Lammily doll brought out emotions of the kind of girl they could see as a good friend.

Shrinks are going to love this new tool.

 

[reba]

never liked dolls except for bb gun targets.. never saw any good reason to set around taking doll clothes off and on..
marbles .. pockets knives.. baseball ...building forts..... bikes ...more my style...

The new doll is really nice...


Some folks could do a great job of making clothes for them