The Barbie doll has been with us for many years now and we have become accustomed to his elongated and thin figure, so much so that it seems normal to be so. In fact, we have become accustomed to other dolls with a more aggressive aesthetic such as the Monster High, which virtually all girls have or want, and whose clothing and aesthetic, call me old, seems taken from a group of prostitutes celebrating Halloween night .
With all this I mean that neither the Barbie is normal, nor are the Bratz, nor the Monster High, which represent a way of being a very unreal woman, becoming a model for girls that very few will ever reach and that In fact, they should not even try to achieve.
In order to show the world what would Barbie be like if she had the measurements of a normal 19-year-old girl, the artist Nickolay Lamm has created an alternative doll to the one of the whole life, thanks to which we can see how excessive the proportions of the real Barbie are.
Lamm took the measurements of a 19-year-old healthy average American girl and moved them to a doll with the same features as Barbie to compare them. The result is what you see in the photos: the new Barbie It's not that tall, it's not that thin and, among other things, it has slightly larger feet.
There are people who will think that it is absurd, that it is only a toy, however it is known that for girls it is more than just a doll to play with. In a study conducted with girls from 6 to 10 years old, it was seen that Girls who play with thin dolls tend to eat less than those who play with medium sized dolls.
In another study conducted with girls from 5 to 8 years they saw that those who played with Barbie had a worse concept about their own body and a greater desire to be thin than those who played with less thin dolls or those who did not play with dolls. In older girls that effect did not occur, serving as a warning for girls under 8 years of age to play with normal sized dolls.
Lamm has commented that his intention was to show that a doll with the measures of an average person can also be beautiful, which can also represent beauty, and I agree with him and I am sure that girls will think the same. Why not make the dolls look more normal then? Namely, maybe Mattel is, consciously, the first of the hundreds of inputs that a girl and then a woman will receive throughout her life to feel dissatisfied with herself.
