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If Barbie was an actual woman, she would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3 shoe.

• Barbie calls this a “full figure” and likes her weight at 110 lbs.

• At 5’9” tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia. She likely would not menstruate.

• If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.

 • Slumber Party Barbie was introduced in 1965 and came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions inside stating simply “Don’t eat.”

WELL GOOD MORNING, MISOGYNY 

what’s funny however is in my childhood I had two barbie (well three, one is this gift we got, little bo peep barbie, but that one quickly made it to the glass cupboard) and the way I play with them is either I hack more than half of their hairs off or by painting their hair in many colours. I did more typical things like dressing them up too and all that but it fades fast.

What’s even funnier is I ended up plucking both their heads off and there they went and I never missed them. After all, I have always been the car and japanese superhero insect and totoro and books kind of girl.

So, either:

a) it was actually a closet Freudian whatever act and I was unintentionally projecting my inability to conform to the standard of beauty by attempting to destroy the standard itself

b) I am actually a closet misogynist, because I decapitate women basically and thought the standard of coolness as to be male dominated like having fast cars and dudes in aviator sunglasses

c) I am actually a feminist, cause I destroy barbies obviously that’s explanation enough

d) I have pent up childhood anger angst and all that shite that found itself an outlet

e) none of the above

f) all of the above

Probable answer is actually G I think which is basically e) + f) put together.

But glad my barbie period is over with. I kinda like it better being an almost adult verging on a quarter life crisis with the possibility of a lawyering job looming and the social pressure of a relatively early marriage still intact. Wait, what?

(via bean-nighe)

G.C. Cheshire, D.C.L., F.B.A & C. H. S. Fifoot, M.A., F.B.A., The Law of Contract

LOL OKAY. Gotta love law books!