“Our barbies, ourselves "

After reading the article “our barbies, ourselves by Emily the first thing that came to my mind is a song sang by Aqua, “I’m a Barbie girl, In a Barbie world, life in plastic, is fantastic” I loved this song as a kid . I agree with the writer, Emily Prage because, I think most girls wanted to look like Barbie, have the perfect body with long nice legs. Every young girl wants to own her, dress her and play with her. I think Barbie is the most popular doll ever created and it has a lot of influence on how we want to look like or how beauty is defined as.

As Emily Pager says” Barbie looks like someone who got her start at the play mansion. She could be a regular guest on the Howard stern show.” This is the image of mans perception of women and the fantasy there in. Millions of women have gone along with this fantasy and have been entranced by the unrealistic standards of appearance and false qualities of life. Sadly, more and more women have accepted these standards as their own and have even resorted to changing who they are to become what they believe to be real. This may be a major contributing factor to the rise of women seeking breast implants and or plastic surgery. As I grew older I realize that a Barbie’s body is like no real woman's body. Most of these girls on playboy have had breast augmentation or some sort of plastic surgery to look like Barbie. Barbie was on the book written by Dr. Lazar called "101 most influential people who never lived" .Dr. Lazar pointed out that the reason he put Barbie on the list is because "Barbie teaches every girl that, to be happy, you have to own everything". The concept of the American dream seems to have dwindled from where it was in the past generations. It has gone from success, freedom, and happiness to having lots of money and having the perfect body and face.