Blog Post #3

We have talked so much in class about how women are always looked at as sex objects. However, we have not talked about how children see how woman are sexualized from the time they are little kids. The main controversy on this subject is the appearance of Barbie. Barbie has the most perfect body. She is thin, attractive, and blonde with a big chest and bottom. When I was a little girl the only Barbie dolls I could find were blonde thin Barbies. I loved Barbie and I wanted to be just like her when I got older, boobs and all. I wanted to have a Barbie dream house with the perfect man like Ken. I would wear skimpy out fits and have my chest hang out every day. I wanted to wear lots of makeup and dye my hair bleach blonde. I wouldn’t eat anything but fruit and veggies to maintain my perfect sexy figure. Why does that have to be our role model at such a young age? What about all the other toys that are coming out for girls? Every girls toy has to do with baking, or jewelry, or baby dolls, or toy vacuums, or make up, fake cell phones. Everything a girl has to choose from has to do with how woman are percieved.

 

 The main thing I wanted to express was the clothing that has been coming out for little girls. First, I work at T.J. Maxx and we receive girls toys and clothing every day. The outfits little girls are wearing now a days is crazy to me, especially the bra’s and underwear little girls have the option to buy in every day department stores. Do you know how hard it is to find a bra for little girls that is not padded? Every girls bra now a days is padded. Why do little girls have to have pretend boobs at a young age? This is because girls do not feel pretty unless they have boobs because of things like Barbies. There are also bathing suits for little girls with built in padding so that it looks like they have breasts. Also, there are little girls underwear that are string bikini style and they have recently came out with thongs for girls. How is that okay? One will never know but there is seriously something wrong with this. I know that when I become a mom I will never let my child wear these things and I will guide them to toys that are not so sexualized.