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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont know. To OP’s original point, Barbies always felt… free. Yes, they were silly and top-heavy and pink, but basically the life they were selling was: you could do whatever the f—- you wanted. Perfectly accessorized to boot!

Ironically as an exhausted WOH Mom of 2, this sounds aspirational not regressive! [/quote]

+1 - this encapsulates how I feel about Barbie, but I hadn’t articulated it.

Gen-Xer who had Barbies and was a loud mouth feminist from an early age, even while wearing long pink dresses, now with a career in a male-dominated industry.  No body image issues growing up, because my mom almost NEVER talked about dieting and size.

My elementary school fantasy was being single, with a cool job, living alone in my loft apartment in Manhattan - this was all well before Sex and the City, and the only thing I think I had seen in NYC was the Statue of Liberty, so likely it was inspired by some Barbie and Big (the Tom Hanks movie) mash-up![/quote]

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