Stemming from Sunny Pao's Real Beauty blog, I cam across this photo while randomly searching through the internet. I found this photo really funny, because if you think about, Barbie is a little over 50 years old. Imagine all the revenue that Mattel would make if they started releasing 'age appropriate' and 'realistically proportional' Barbies? They could buy out the world! If you didn't take not of the sarcasm there, Im disclosing it to you now. :) If Barbie looked somewhat similar to her age, or even proportionally resembled somewhat of a realistic female physique, Mattel would skyrocket ... down. Our generation has been so influenced by the media and their standards that what would have been seen as normal, beautiful, and sexy 30-50 years ago is now being seen as inadequate. For instance, in Mattels case, if Barbie looked like this aged Barbie then less people would buy her. If Barbie gained an extra 20-30 pounds, would people still buy her? I think it all depends on the marketing. In our society to date, everything is photoshopped to be slimmer, smoother, and more vibrant. Nothing we see in the advertistements (billboards, television, packaging) is ever the way that it actually looks like in real life. We're so used to seeing everything being placed on this high pedastol, when even most of us will never achieve in the first place because it's literally impossible. Psychologically, this is very messed up.
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