'Feminist nightmare': full-size Barbie Dreamhouse set open

[cronus]

'Feminist nightmare': full-size Barbie Dreamhouse set to open

The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon.
With her ironed-straight blond tresses, doe-like baby blue eyes, blinding smile and super-human measurements, the mistress of the giant Barbie mansion has become a lightning rod ahead of the May 16 inauguration.
Just a few steps from Alexanderplatz, the main shopping district of east Berlin, the 2,500-square-metre slice of Malibu lifestyle is nestled between a railway and old communist housing blocks.
Inside, young Barbie fans can pretend to bake cupcakes in a marvellous kitchen, rummage through her sequin-studded wardrobe in the blonde bombshell's "endless" walk-in closet and lounge in her -- pink, of course -- living room while admiring hundreds of dolls on display.
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"For 22 euros ($A28), you can have two careers -- model or pop star! What kind of image is that presenting to young women?" grumbles Michael Koschitzki, the proudly feminist male leader of a grassroots group of opponents of the Barbie Dreamhouse, and a member of the youth wing of the far-left party Die Linke.
A Facebook faction called "Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse", created in March with a wink at the New York anti-greed movement Occupy Wall Street, has drawn more than 1000 supporters since its launch in March when the Berlin plans came to light.
It regrets that "the vast majority of little girls play with a doll that, if she were real, would be anorexic and whose life would consist of waiting for Ken in the car", Koschitzki said.
An angry fist piercing adverts for the attraction was printed on 10,000 flyers to publicise the fight against such "sexist propaganda" in a country headed by a childless woman and in which battles of the sexes are being fought on several fronts.


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[JimC]

Klaus Barbie?

[rainbow]

Klaus Barbie?

Did they ever do a poor Third World teenage pregnant Barbie?

[Svartalf]

I think it has been done, but not by Mattel or with their blessing.

[JimC]

Klaus Barbie?

Did they ever do a poor Third World teenage pregnant Barbie?

Who eventually stabs Ken to death in a drug-fuelled rage...

[rainbow]

Klaus Barbie?

Did they ever do a poor Third World teenage pregnant Barbie?

Who eventually stabs Ken to death in a drug-fuelled rage...

You might find that the vast majority of young women in poor countries, are not drug-taking murderers. They do however cook missionaries, when required.

[cronus]

I always thought the German men fancied smaller tits, with their recurrent pre-industrial famines over that way?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think it has been done, but not by Mattel or with their blessing.

Never happened!

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[Coito ergo sum]

Where there is nothing left to protest --- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/f ... -1.1346327

Oh, come the fuck on...

[Animavore]

Where there is nothing left to protest --- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/f ... -1.1346327

Oh, come the fuck on...

Ah they blocked out the breasts






A European newspaper wouldn't of done that

[cronus]

It is all a bit surreal isn't it?

[Animavore]

More like stupid.

[Bella Fortuna]

wouldn't of

[Animavore]

wouldn't of

Oops. Meant "wouldn't've"

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The one on the right is kinda hawt.