That's not the combination to my bike lock.
Nope it is not the co ordinates to buried treasure.
It's not an important date either.
It's Barbie’s bust, waist and hip measurement if she was a real walking talking breathing human being. everyone is all caught up on Barbie and how ridiculous her proportions are and how all of her internal organs wouldn't fit in her tiny waist, or how she'd have sever back problems because her waist is as big as her head and wouldn't be able to support the weight of her chest, or how she wouldn't be able to walk because her feet and ankles are so small they couldn't carry her weight...even though she'd only be 100lbs which with her upwards of 6 foot frame wouldn't have enough body fat to menstruate.
As a kid I didn't care about Barbie. I realized early on she wasn't a human. But I did grow up watching Disney movies looking at Ariel and jasmine and belle.
All three of them have waists half the size of their head and eye balls bigger than their mouths. I don't know why I thought they were a more realistic version of what a woman was. [maybe it was because they were alive in the TV...I don't know, moving on.] Disney also gave me really unrealistic exceptions about hair. I may keep my do cropped off and short these days, but as a child I longed to have hair like the little mermaid or Pocahontas.
Anyways. I went to Disneyworld in grade 5 and I met a few Disney princesses and I remember thinking...they look fat. I mean, how messed up is that!? I didn't even really know what fat was in grade 5 but I knew those women in costumes were not as thin as the cartoons I watched on TV.
Well, food for thought. hahahahaha...food.
nom! nom! nom!
<3
p.s. Does anyone else dwell on the fact that Ariel was 16 in the little mermaid? and she got married at 16.
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