Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie

If you wanted to watch a Barbie film with feminist talking heads and multiple mentions of "white supremacy" this is it. For me it was just interesting to see just how far off the mark certain types still were, ideology warping their understanding of basic realities.

Yes there are beauty standards. Academics have tried to deny this pointing to historic art painted for the pretentious rich of their day which like todays elites and their obsession with modern art is not representative of any wider norm. Go look up Michelangelo's Pieta for the honest reality that beauty has always been idealized. When creating art to glorify god not only is the mother of Jesus depicted as beautiful, but she is unrealistically young.

One should note the concern over body shaming coincides with an epidemic of obesity, so the assumption behind the concern is questionable as the protection from standards leads to undeniable real world harm far greater than hurt feelings. Its notable in asian cultures where obesity is far less common, body shaming is actually common.

The concern over eating disorders was one of the original pieces of "fake news". The statistics were fabricated, as were the reasons. All the elaborate explanations cultural and psychological were false, in real cases its simply a feminine form of OCD. Originally seen in religious form when afflicted nuns would starve themselves to be closer to god.

The pernicious use of childrens toys to indoctrinate should really stop, it doesn't work and those who push extreme ideologies denouncing such toys usually are the example of how their own ideologies are the true danger. Roxane Gay, Gloria Steinem, the bitter critiques of the permanently childless when they are the living examples of the wrongness of their ideas.

Maybe the lesson to women is that they should stop over thinking things. There is no similar documentary or concern over male toys like GI Joe or He-man, fantasy is fantasy. It' s even more disturbing once you realize that boys toys depict the selfless, while feminist toys depict the selfish. The feminist narrative has always been an inversion of reality.

Stupid movie! it's a doll! I don't think that playing with a pretty doll makes you feel bad or better about yourself. Barbie, if anything shows little girls they can be anything when they grow up. Like a doctor, flight attendant, bee keeper, veterinarian, dentist, astronaut. The movie was basically about people who don't like the way they look blame it on a doll.

Obesity in America is 36.5% of the population, another 32.5% is overweight. In all, more than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. This is a MAJOR issue.

Barbies WEIGHT wasn't the problem.

She's so much more than her body and if you can only think about her body when you look at her, the issue is really on YOU.

The thing with Barbie is that she's perfect, she's gorgeous & she's a career woman.

Girls SHOULD aspire to have these goals which some perceive as unrealistic, because, frankly, it's no more unrealistic than a woman president (something we still have never seen).

--- The documentary was only interesting to me for the history of the doll, as well as a review of the intent of the doll by the creator. When I purchase Barbies in the future for my daughter it will be online VINTAGE 80's & 90's Barbies ONLY.

Obviously u folks spewing all this negativity towards this doc never played with dolls. I thought it was a really good, necessary watch. People saying "it's just a doll" never had insecurities or body image issues. Although I wished for more interviews with children, since their opinions mattered most with this subject matter, it was nice to hear from actual Mattel employees. I also enjoyed learning a little about the founding couple behind the brand, especially Ruth, who was a bad chick. Barbie has meant so much to women/girls the last 60+ years so as a progressive figure she was long overdue for a relaunch. I think she still has a ways to go to be more inclusive and to keep the attention of kids, but think it's a step in the right direction.

I do believe society has placed too much pressure on a doll, however since Barbie is in the public eye, there's a certain level of responsibility that entails.

I really daily run Barbie are qualified to be. They missed the whole point of Barbie! She's supposed to be fun to play with! And the thing is she was perfect what's wrong with playing with the perfect little doll? She had plenty of black fans in the early 60s! In the 80 she was cute too but it's these two thousands Barbie dolls that look weird, and then we get to meet the people behind it. People who are offended by growing up Etc. You know, the name of the documentaries tiny shoulders but they spend more time talking about her thigh gap. I'm actually offended by the plus size doll and I look similar to that plus size doll. Is this her face is so ugly! What was wrong with regular Barbie in the first place I think she's perfect and I ain't look more like the real Barbie than the Plus Size Barbie! Is so ridiculous and that plus size doll doesn't have any cute clothes I mean they're vaguely cute which is a problem that plus-size people have. In real life Barbie doesn't have that problem. The people who run Barbie currently just really overthink things to the point where it's no longer fun It also shows the company purposely getting low-ball publicity for Barbie which is kind of sad but I guess they needed to do it. Another painfully obvious thing is it the original creator of Barbie at the secret sauce and so did the second head of Barbie in the 1980s she did a really good job and make Mattel billionaires. They really need to take lessons from the previous CEOs and owners and creators of Barbie she doesn't need to be changed anymore we like her being very pretty and beautiful. We like her big breasts why take them away? In fact that's what the owner the original CEO said, none of the men thought that the dog will be successful because she had breast but when they sold out instantly by women. She also went on to make silicone breast which is actually very interesting and shows how powerful she is! Very happy for her and proud of her she's a very creative woman. Now, if we can only get this new generation that get up on that. For the most part it's just feels like another publicity stunt. It seems like Mattel sponsored it or something like that I guess the documentary tried but not until the very end to be a documentary more like a reality show