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> Leigh Meyers wrote:
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> >Sugar and spice and torturing Barbie
> >By JILL LAWLESS
> >Monday, December 19, 2005
> >Associated Press
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> Well, this is encouraging.
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> >They found that Barbie provoked the strongest reaction, with youngsters reporting "rejection, hatred and violence," Ms. Nairn said.
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> Good, good.
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> >"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.
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> >Joanna
My sister did. She burned her "baby" doll when she was replaced by a newer model as it were. Before I was in grade school (age 3-4) I built a gallows for my stuffed bear and repeatedly hanged him after a mock trial. I remember quite distinctly that he was guilt of cattle rustling which was odd since I had never seen a cow before and didn't particularly like cowboy tales. Kids do some strange things.
John Thornton