While I've read the posts about the positive aspects to this and acknowledge that it can raise awareness and money, the idea still seems very unpleasant to me. At the same time, I think it is very innocent that a child would buy this doll in honor of her mother, and I don't think my feelings are incongruent at all.
Maybe if Barbie was not such an impossible vision of perfection for the children who play with her to ever achieve, and the source of so much lack of confidence, and the source of so much need to buy whatever it takes to look like her, it would have more positive meaning for me.
Cancer doesn't make women feel like Barbie at all. I think Barbie only emphasizes the importance in our culture of having perfect breasts. I have to agree with Steph's first impression. If the maker of Barbie wants to donate money for breast cancer they don't have to tie it to an icon of false image to make money on the side.
AlaskaAngel
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