Barbie is a popular doll that became the symbol of the desired beauty norms that nearly no woman can achieve. The American Barbie is a doll that is beautiful, tall, skinny, and blond. It has slim waist, large breasts and long legs. Barbie is a goddess that symbolizes the norms of feminine beauty in the western world. Barbie owns a handsome man named Kan, a Barbie baby, Barbie children, multi-floored villas, cars, an accessorized kitchen, …
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…who is pretty and who is not. Obviously the perfect image of Barbie does not contribute to the effort to change the world's perspective around. About feminism, I do not think that Barbie lowers the power women posses. After all, there is no contradiction between beauty and feminism, and a woman can be beautiful and a liberal successful woman. Barbie brings up impossible standards for women but is it not human to want the impossible?