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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    I do think it's odd that in a time in which increasing numbers of black women are trying to wear their hair natural that so many of these black Barbies have straight hair.

    But more troubling to me is most of the clothes. They're incredibly "ghetto." What happened to aspiration? Just because you're poor doesn't mean you want a doll that looks exactly like you (supposedly). The Cinderella doll comes dressed in a gossamer ball gown, not in rags.

    I'm no Barbie aficionada; was there a "White Trash" Barbie? These then, would be the black counterpart.

    These Barbies are "more horrible." White Barbie gets a convertible and a house in Malibu. Some of these black Barbies look destined for their very own street corner.
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    For the first few seconds I th0ught the "Shiny Bubbles" commercial was mildly amusing -- I read too quickly and thought it was a sponsored ad leading in to the main item -- but as the bubbles' remarks began to escalate into a group taunt it was scary. How could the makers not realize that this was going too far and evoked a rape scene?

    Advertising and the movies love the image of the beautiful, helpless, naked woman on the brink of being assaulted, sexually or with a knife (Psycho). I can't think of a similar image of a man.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    Adding insult to injury, after the soap scum raped her, she sat for an hour in the shower, crying as the water poured over her.
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    If it were a real black barbie doll, there's no way in hell she would let you touch her hair.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    That commercial doesn't contain anything that doesn't go on at during halftime at a Jets game.
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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    Oh please. I would totally fuck Grace. She's hot.

    Seriously - what's the problem?!
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    M-E-T-H-O-D, man.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    It could be worse. Mattell initially wanted to charge 3/5ths of the price of a white Barbie doll.
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    Image of jbwan jbwan
    12/03/09

    @econdave: ha!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/03/09

    @econdave: I was in the spice aisle at the grocery store when I noticed that white pepper costs more than ten times as much as black pepper.

    Stop & Shop is racist!
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    12/03/09

    @econdave: That's nothing. I'm going to the caribbean for christmas and I'm bringing several of these dolls which I intend to trade for rum.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    Those dolls are black? I thought they were part of the Orange County Barbie series that come with their very own spray tan booths.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/03/09

    @misslinda: They're actually just promotional tools for Jersey Shore.
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    DahlELama was starred DahlELama was unstarred
    Image of misslinda misslinda
    12/03/09

    @DahlELama: So they come with a Bud Lite, neon glow necklace, and low self esteem?
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    misslinda was starred misslinda was unstarred
    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/03/09

    @misslinda: Plus all the cubic zirconia money can buy.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    I once jumped into a shallow tub and got sexually assaulted by a bar of Lifebuoy soap, so you never know.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    The doll thing actually does make me sad, b/c I had an awesome black Barbie when I was a kid, with much darker skin and curlier hair than any of those dolls have. My best friend still says that when we were kids and didn't actually like each other, the fact that I had a black Barbie is the only thing about me she thought was cool.
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    Image of JaviDecimal JaviDecimal
    12/03/09

    In reply to Everybody Mad at Dolls, Cartoons
    Those dolls have "Good Hair"
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    11/17/09

    In reply to Branding Appropriately Inspired
    Post Secret is amazing. That is all. #branding
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/17/09

    In reply to Angelina Jolie's Face Spurs Massive Internet Dialogue

    I'll take Pepper. #angelinajolie
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    11/17/09

    In reply to Angelina Jolie's Face Spurs Massive Internet Dialogue

    Here is the answer. #angelinajolie
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