Barbie: A Negative Public Icon
“Come on Barbie lets go party”, goes the popular song by Aqua, a song that is loved by many but when listened to carefully this song has some very demeaning messages towards Barbie. “I’m a blonde single girl in the fantasy world,” is a message that many people claim her to be, living in a fantasy world. Unfortunately too many girls young and old want to follow in her footsteps. Barbie is indeed a negative public icon. Not only is she a negative influence towards young girls but she also promotes an impossibly perfect body figure and a fantasy lifestyle which is unrealistic to achieve. Barbie plays a major role in many young girls’ lives. (You’ve already strongly established that Barbie does this – you said so when you called her a “public icon” and again when you said
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In reality how fantastic is it? Barbie is perfect. Perfect hair, face, and body shape. To often do we find women trying to imitate her. Not only do females starve themselves or try other ridiculous methods to achieve her body shape, but they have also turned to plastic surgery to achieve this “goal”. Take Nicki Minaj or Kim Kardashian for example. They are famous and they try to achieve that ultimate beauty that Barbie holds through artificial ways. Nicki Minaj even takes it as far as calling herself Barbie. Women need to understand that Barbie is indeed plastic and that they will never achieve her looks or body size, even when they try to manufacture them through surgery. The following paragraph kind of jumps out at the reader without warning, because we were reading about single motherhood and plastic surgery before (dangerous and destructive things in society), and the next paragraph begins with “pink.” You need to lead up to the next point about materialism with a smoother transition. Maybe you can say, “Barbie not only encourages unhealthy ideas about motherhood and physical perfection, she encourages unrealistic expectations about money
In reality how fantastic is it? Barbie is perfect. Perfect hair, face, and body shape. To often do we find women trying to imitate her. Not only do females starve themselves or try other ridiculous methods to achieve her body shape, but they have also turned to plastic surgery to achieve this “goal”. Take Nicki Minaj or Kim Kardashian for example. They are famous and they try to achieve that ultimate beauty that Barbie holds through artificial ways. Nicki Minaj even takes it as far as calling herself Barbie. Women need to understand that Barbie is indeed plastic and that they will never achieve her looks or body size, even when they try to manufacture them through surgery. The following paragraph kind of jumps out at the reader without warning, because we were reading about single motherhood and plastic surgery before (dangerous and destructive things in society), and the next paragraph begins with “pink.” You need to lead up to the next point about materialism with a smoother transition. Maybe you can say, “Barbie not only encourages unhealthy ideas about motherhood and physical perfection, she encourages unrealistic expectations about money