Facebook
Twitter
RSS
![[Masthead]](http://www.t-g.com/images/nameplate.png)
|
|
Overcast ~ High: 51°F ~ Low: 29°F Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 |
|
Tattoo Barbie?Posted Wednesday, March 4, 2009, at 8:23 AM
Oh, this time Mattel has gone too far. They just reinvented Barbie -- again. This time she comes with tattoos. And a tattoo gun so her young owners can give themselves temporary tattoos.
My 10-year-old son said, "That's stupid. That will just make little girls want to get real tattoos." From the mouths of babes... I have friends with tattoos and weird piercings and even they were kind of appalled by this. Mattel just insists they're allowing girls to be creative. Personally, if they're that creative, all they need are some colored Sharpies and they can make their own. What they should do is sell the Barbies already tattooed, then make the kids pay $3,000 to have them lasered off when they don't want them anymore. I wonder what's next? Bondage Barbie? Botox Barbie? Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
Mary Reeves is a staff writer for the Times-Gazette.
Hot topics ooops, she did it again ...(4 ~ 9:36 PM, Aug 10)
We all scream for ice cream!
Everybody, quick, catch a cold and spread it!
I'm baaaack....
No more track at Central?
|
Email link
Read comments (19)
Blog archive
![[Feed icon]](http://www.t-g.com/images/icons/feed-icon-14x14.png){kind=icon}
Barbie was Botoxed from the beginning.
When she and I used to hang out, she never did anything like that, not even close. Okay. Maybe the signs were there and I just didn't see them, or didn't want to see them. Let's face it, she never wore a bra, not even once. But it was okay for a girl built like her. I mean, she did have that great figure, long neck, tiny waist. She was in great shape. A girl like that could get away with it. Come to think of it, I bet she got that idea from GI Joe because he always went commando. Back in the day, when she was my best friend, he was always following her around and I don't remember him ever even wearing a shirt. That was Ken. Ken wore a shirt, ususall a tuxedo shirt because it came attached to his coat, but he didn't wear socks or shoes. And Barbie only hung with him when she was dressed up and needed a ride somewhere. He didn't mind driving her pink car. But Joe was the one she kissed, over and over. I don't think they even hugged. They just stood there kissing and kissing. If I'm remembering it right, it was quite romantic. Yeah, there were signs, even back then, that she was just the kind of girl who would get a little pink flower tattoo.
Tattoo Barbie comes with a six pack of beer and a motorcycle. Hours of fun for my daughter!!!
LOL @ jdcoughlin
I loved your story I needed a laugh this morning so Thanks :>)
http://www.djron.com/jokes/TenBarb.html
Here's a good one too.
Jacks4me that was so freaking funny!!
Yeah i have tattoos but Tattoo barbie??
That is like Trailer trash barbie, or Biker barbie
or mud wrestler barbie...
or....Octo-mom barbie complete with 14 kids!!
Wasn't there a Barbie out at one time that was pregnant Barbie? You could open her tummy and take out the baby?
Dianatn - there was once a pregnant Barbie! I remember that, my cousin had one - we were all jealous.
Barbie never thought of doing such a thing before Ken bought that Harley.
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Odd%2...
She should have stuck with her gunbunny (and all those extra positions G.I. Joe's joints could make) or dated Captain Action.
Henna tats or other temporary body art are fine but permanent body modification is not for kids.
According to some of the folks who favor Muslim fashion dolls like Sara,Fulla and Razanne,Barbie is Jewish and "too Western".
If Barbie acquired her ink in a concentration camp,her rabbi might overlook it but if it were done out of vanity,some sects would insist that she' had "mutilations" that could keep her out of Heaven.
It wouldn't matter if she were a runway model/astronaut/doctor/political figure,she might not get hired to wait tables or babysit if she had Mayan cuttings,snugs or implants to look like a cat or wood elf.
It wouldn't hurt kids to have action figures that let them rehearse adult roles,try on their dreams and still confine the alterations they make to their bodies to things that could wash off or grow out.
Better yet,let them learn to express individuality in who they are on the inside and not just what they look like externally.
Some would say half the fun of body art is stepping outside the norm and outraging the stodgy folk.
It's about being willing to suffer and committ to be true to one's vision.
Just what are our pre-teens ready for?
Maybe,Barbie's become fascinated with Chinese Bush art.
Maybe,she wants to join one of Ray Bradbury's dark carnivals and have the illustrations on her flesh change,relate stories and vanish (ony to be replaced by new pictures).
No,we didn't need Tattoo Barbie.
But,Mattel could have given us a new doll,Lydia.
" Oh Lydia, Oh Lydia
Now have you met Lydia
Lydia the tattooed lady
She has muscles men adore-so
And a torso even more-so
Oh, Lydia, Oh Lydia
Now have you met Lydia
Lydia the queen of tattoo
On her back is the battle of Waterloo
Beside it the wreck of the Hesperus too
and proudly above waves the red white and blue
You can learn a lot from Lydia
Lydia, oh Lydia, have you met
Lydia, the queen of them all!
She once knocked an admiral off of his feet,
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat.
And now the old man is in command of the fleet,
For he went and married Lydia!"
-E.Y. Harburg
Jacks4me . . . do you know DJ Ron?
No, the link was sent to me by a friend some time ago.
Well I always wanted a Barbie with 6 inch spiked heels, a pack of cigs and a 40 oz.. I bet she would come with a welfare check and a delousing kit too. I used to cut all of the hair off of my sisters barbies...boy would she get #$%%@!. No seriously, when I was 10 years old, my friends and I would go into the woods and find a really long, tall, skinny tree and pull the top of it down to the ground. We would break the branches off leaving just the trunk of the skinny tree standing there, tie a noose to the end of it, attach it to a steak on the ground, put the noose around my sisters unsuspecting doll and catapult it into the sky. The dolls head would pop off and the body and head would go flying through the air like a rocket. Then I would split my friends up into teams and each group would form a search party to find the head and the body. The first group back to the tree house won. The game was over suddenly one day when the doll was found in the middle of Tullahoma Hwy run over by a truck. But we just started a new game at that point where the doll was brought back on a stretcher and put into traction for rehabilitation. Oh Yea...Tim, I told you not to go riding mini bikes without me that day and you probably wouldnt have tore your arm half off. I had some really cool childhood memories.
Oh ok, I actually know the guy and help him do music reviews for a website. I was wondering if you was someone I knew. :-P
jax - Anyone who can come up with that is my kind of smarta$$ :-P
I hear Barbie abuse is a normal part of childhood.
(Maturing kids reject the inanimate "plastic princesses" and their lifestyle in ways the grown folks won't let them try out on the dolls' human counterparts.)
My crowd didn't attack our Barbies but that could be because ours were emulating Emma Peel,April Dancer,Cinnamon Carter,Modesty Blaise,Honey West and every gal Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson ever played.
They saved the world as part of S.H.I.E.L.D. the Legion of Super-Heroes,the Avengers,the Justice League,the X-Men,the Challengers of the Unknown, the Fantastic Four and the Doom Patrol.
They solved mysteries and had adventures in other galaxies.
(That mussed the dolls up enough but it went with the territory.)
We weren't *abusing* Barbie.
We were just helping her let off some steam between photo shoots,cotillions and being a modern day Renaissance woman.
this is a great idea.
and there is nothing wrong with them they are a form of art just like piercings. and if you want to express yourself like that thats great!
im 15 and im gettng one soon and i already have 10 piercings and im getting 3 more soon. i love them they help express who i am and its a great idea as long as theyre done safely.
Yea I agree tats are really a good way of expressing yourself and they do look really Kool until you get about 60 years old then that pretty tat becomes a wrinkled mess.
i wonder what our young people will look like in 60 years..Tattoos, piercings..implants and viagra.. haahahahh
and won't remember why they look like that...
Now that will be amusing...
They're coming up with technology that will give people imbedded medicines and diagnostics plus give folks changeable,programmable make-up and tats.
Can you imagine little beads or nanoes under the skin that could be inert and invisible one minute and in the next do stuff like read our vital signs,provide us with sunscreen,regulate our blood chemistry,paint our skin with exotic designs and provide "make-up" that could change in color and placement according to our whims?
In raysixx's future,the tattoos,piercings and other body modifications might be things of the past while the descendants of today's computers might lie within us and manipulate our cells for our health,to keep us informed and to affect our appearance and our comfort.
In a dystopian society,it'd be all about our bar codes and gang images but,on a more optimistic note,we could "wear" our pharmacy or university and display designs of our choice for work,leisure time or festive occasions.
(BTW,I think I could live with a Barbie with washable body art [anyone remember dolls with changeable hair color?] but,if they ever do her up with hooks,cuts,etc. like some outtake from Hellraiser,it's goodbye Cenobite Barbie and Safeword Skipper and hello,Raggedy Anne and the American Girls.)