Barbie..the sex worker

[Left Sig]

Have you seen the newer dolls like "Bratz"? Now they don't even try to hide the fact that the dolls are based on teenage prostitutes - it's really obvious.

[MarshallDodge]

"....and filing off her nipples."

Sounds painful.

[RogerinTPA]

As usual, truth is stranger then fiction. I'm listening to NPR radio, and they are discussing the 50th anniversary of the Barbie Doll. I'm just about to turn the dial, when they start to discuss the actual history of Barbie, and it reminded me truth is always stranger then fiction:

"Barbie was modelled on a German doll, a three-dimensional representation of a fictional prostitute called Lilli in the comic-strip of a German newspaper, Bild Zeitung. She serviced German businessmen and was cheeky to the cops. Platinum-haired and tarty, she would do anything with sweaty clients, provided the money was right. This was the doll Ryan encountered in 1955, and he adjusted it for the consumption of American children, by tidying up her lips and filing off her nipples."

The doll Ken, was based on their son, who indeed named Ken. He was a gay man (amazingly, didn't we all know Ken was gay?) and died of AIDs in 1994.

See:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...y-1331669.html

Funny shit!

My favorite was from the old Nissan commercial, where Barbie took off with GI Joe in the 300Z...it always crack me up!