When Barbie meets ballet...?
September 9, 2001 7:15 AM Subscribe
When Barbie meets ballet...? Mattel are shelling out £85,000 to sponsor the ENO's traditional Christmas run of the Nutcracker, which coincidentally starts just as Barbie in the Nutcracker hits the cinemas. A good way to "interest young girls in the ballet", or a head-on crash between two questionable influences on their body image? (more inside...)
My girlfriend was a skinny ballet dancer for a number of years and doesn't seem to have suffered much permanent damage, but I think she just was scrawny and long-limbed; I don't think ballet did it to her.
It's the effects of years of accordion lessons I'm worried about.
posted by pracowity at 3:50 AM on September 10, 2001
It's the effects of years of accordion lessons I'm worried about.
posted by pracowity at 3:50 AM on September 10, 2001
I've been working at a toy retailer over the summer and I can assure you that Nutcracker Barbie is the most disgusting toy in the world, followed closely by Angel Of Peace Barbie. Sorry to have an anti barbie sentiment here but I like my escapist illusions to have a possiblity of being true. Barbie is just so physically impossible that it can only be doing bad things. Give them toys with guns, toys with guns, then they'll be well adjusted...
posted by nedrichards at 12:10 PM on September 10, 2001
posted by nedrichards at 12:10 PM on September 10, 2001
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So when I think of "Barbie" and "ballerina", two polarised ideals that are equally freakish, I can't help but squirm.
posted by holgate at 7:23 AM on September 9, 2001