Die! Barbie! Die!
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The author shares the story of beheading her own Marie Antoinette Barbie and suggests it is time for Barbie to exit the world stage.
The nail in Barbie’s grotesquely proportioned coffin is last winter’s study by a British university about how ferociously little girls mutilate their Barbies, just for fun. They scalp them and dismember them and burn them and microwave them. Frankly, Barbie had it coming. She’s just too unreal. How do you bond with something that looks like a taffy pull with a face? Stuffed animals are more flesh and blood than Barbie.
Better to euthanize the 46-year-old doll than subject us to another fanciful makeover.