EXTREMESTS: don't read this post!

I have heard about so many barbie controversies that I can barely count them all on one hand. I've heard of the unmarried barbie and the body shape of barbies and people who change their appearance to look like barbies, but I have yet to hear of anyone complain of the Ken dolls being too fit or not representing a real body type (or not wearing his wedding ring *tisk tisk tisk*). He has perfectly toned abs, calves, and biceps, but... the absence of genitalia... sorry to be lewd but its true. If you have ever changed your doll's clothes you know what I'm talking about.

But why are we all up in arms that these dolls are not anatomically correct? So what if they are not the right proportions and not every girl or boy will look like that when they grow up. Thats just how we show that something isn't human, we dumb down the features. look at Raggedy Anne and cabbage patch dolls...

Anne looks NOTHING like a person at all and the cabbage patch girl is short and round and doesn't have the right proportions at all... but no one cares about that do they.

Long story short we need to step up the parenting in this country. Instead of kids learning their information from T.V how about when we buy our kids barbies we talk to them to make sure that they are aware that these dolls are not a model for what ALL of humanity should look. It is just a TOY... not reality.

This argument can be said for many things but I don't want to get myself into a frenzy.

Lets all take a little bit of responsibility for our selves and tell your kids what is real or fake please so were not all messed up when we're grown.