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March 8th 2009     

Our Crumbling Civilization: Barbie’s Tatts

Posted by: Laer at 01:29 pm

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ve researched this quite thoroughly, and I can assure you that in the 1950s Mattell never offered a Cocktail Barbie, complete with a little whisky sour and chic cigarett holder.  Nor did they offer Coke-Head Barbie in the 70s, with a razor-scratched mirror in her white powder-filled compact.  So why this?

Barbie turns 50 this month, and to shake off a midlife crisis she’s getting tattooed …

Mattel Inc. has released Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie. The doll comes with a set of more than 40 tiny tattoo stickers that can be placed on her body. Also included is a faux tattoo gun with wash-off tats that kids can use to ink themselves.

A spokeswoman for the El Segundo toy maker said it was a great way for youngsters to be creative with their pint-sized gal pal. (LA Times)

Child psychologist Dr. James Margulous told Fox News that it’s all no big deal:

The tattoos are not offensive; they’re puppy dogs and stars.  It doesn’t have snakes and marijuana cigarettes on it. 

Well, that makes it all better.  No matter if Barbie influences girls that getting butterflies needled deep into their skin, just so long as they don’t tatt something icky, Mattell shouldn’t be criticized. 

If parents don’t succeed in forcing Mattell to withdraw this horrible idea by not buying Totally Stylin’ Tattoo Barbies for their clean-skinned little girls, I wonder if Mattell will follow up with a Girls Gone Wild Barbie, complete with a “c’mon boys!” tattoo above her rear end and a Playboy bunny on her cleavage, or maybe a 65 Years Old with Sagging Skin and Droopy Tattoos Barbie to remind little girls that tattoos, unlike third husbands, are forever. 

No, in the name of protecting our civilization from further crumbling, they should stick to that good old nearly anorexic, skirt too short, blouse too tight Barbie.

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  1. Steve

    March 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

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