The point he/she was trying to make was a "few extra pounds" started in 1949, "Overweight" started about 1967, and "obese" came into play around 1973... so all the girls pre-1948 were slim and barbie-ish...
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Apple Online Store Gains New Toys Ahead of the Holidays, Now Offering Barbie and Skylanders
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The point he/she was trying to make was a "few extra pounds" started in 1949, "Overweight" started about 1967, and "obese" came into play around 1973... so all the girls pre-1948 were slim and barbie-ish...
Doesn't parents talking to the baby while it's still in the womb promote baby-parent bonding when the child is born? They can just play loops of the Mac startup chime.
I wonder how many of those robots are going to end up taking a trip down the stairs.
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I always wonder why "slim" has become unrealistic. People need to give their head a shake. People have developed poor eating habits and become less active. Simple as that. Health takes effort, and that effort is increasing lacking in the people that let go.
(and yes, I know there are also health-related causes of obesity but what caused those health problems, hmmm?)
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This will be awesome, young girls can get a start on their unrealistic body expectations at the Apple store now.
I always wonder why "slim" has become unrealistic. People need to give their head a shake. People have developed poor eating habits and become less active. Simple as that. Health takes effort, and that effort is increasing lacking in the people that let go.
(and yes, I know there are also health-related causes of obesity but what caused those health problems, hmmm?)
those used to be expensive and a rare treat. and Mcdonalds used to have real food at one point instead of pink slime.
same with soda or now we have all these crazy sugar filled juice drinks posing as healthy drinks and loaded with sugar and crap
Barbie is shaped pretty much like Victoria Secret models.
Come to think of it, this app sounds pretty cool even for dirty old men.
Those probably influenced all the douchebags I see at the gym... with flat-front baseball caps and beats headphones...
Gosh. Barbie looks awful. What happened to her? Poor thing. She needs to eat more and get more exercise. Also looks kind of young for the things she does.
Nor should it! Learning to separate toys and fantasy from reality is part of maturing into an adult. It is unfortunate that the kids who struggle with this lack adequate parentage to guide them.
Girls being depressed about failing to match a ridiculous body image? That is not Barbie's fault. That's poor parenting.
Those are pretty obviously fictional characters, though. They fight aliens and have superpowers. Barbie, on the other hand, does mundane, realistic things, but ends up with unrealistic proportions.
This will be awesome, young girls can get a start on their unrealistic body expectations at the Apple store now.
Not everyone who plays with these toys adopts an unreasonable body image. You seem to be doing okay!
for some, parents can indeed be the problem. for others it's a personality trait.
some folks who get showered in love and sound guidance from birth onward feel nothing but despair and isolation. look at siblings with their vastly different outlooks and mental issues/abilities, etc.. kids are as varied and different as adults are - the notion that they're all tabula rasa until they hit puberty is a farce, imo.
At least on the games front it wasn't until the late 80's before they were common household items.
If you think that's an example of misandry, you're are immensely uneducated in the matter.
And not everyone gets fat from eating McDonalds, whats your point?
Umm, the story is about Barbie. No "guy dolls" in the story, so I made no sarcastic crack about guy dolls.
I'm liking the Skylanders. My kids are dying for it, but sadly the two iPads we have don't support it. I'm not ready to go into a full blown gaming system, but this is a nice compromise that doesn't cost much (if you already have the right hardware).
What do you think rap music is? The heavy base that they play transmits quite well to an in situ fetus.
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It was from the beginning. The first Apple One's sold through The Byte Shop as a computer hobby store.
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The point he/she was trying to make was a "few extra pounds" started in 1949, "Overweight" started about 1967, and "obese" came into play around 1973... so all the girls pre-1948 were slim and barbie-ish...
Wait til VR finally takes hold in the consumer space.
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Only unrealistic for the weak minded with the wrong people in their lives.
I know one guy who started working out and formed a very good V in his torso over a summer. Girlfriend loved it at first but then freaked out that other girls were going after him.
He dumped her for hotter girls by the fall and she went into big time depression and I think gained 20 lbs by Christmas that year.
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Search "gangsta barbie" and you'll love it!
What's the problem?
Of course you need to 'draw and push' innocent future gizmo zombies into the fifth circle of Cupertino.
Besides, there were children at Jonestown, too.