Leigh Meyers wrote:
>Sugar and spice and torturing Barbie
>By JILL LAWLESS
>Monday, December 19, 2005
>Associated Press
>
Well, this is encouraging.
>They found that Barbie provoked the strongest reaction, with youngsters reporting "rejection, hatred and violence," Ms. Nairn said.
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Good, good.
>"The most readily expressed reason for rejecting Barbie was that she was babyish, and girls saw her as representing their younger childhood out of which they felt they had now grown," Ms. Nairn said.
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Nonesense. I've never heard of girls burning/mutilating/microwaving
their "baby" dolls.
>Joanna
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