Wannabe Barbie?

I don't think I have ever heard so many girls state that they were the "modern barbie" so much until I came to college. It seems that if you are Barbie, that means you are flawless and perfect? I don't think so. I'm not sure why anyone would want to be Barbie. What happened to wanting to be your own person and make a name for yourself? Barbie has already made the name for herself as a perfect, skinny, successful, and beautiful person since the 1950's or before. Barbie has the perfect weight, height and appearance. She can do virtually anything and attract anyone. Shes a doctor, chemist, flight attendant, and teaacher all in the same day. But still has time to take care of her little sister, maintain her Barbie dreamhouse, go shopping with her friends in her Barbie convertible, and have a boyfriend named Ken. Anyone who states that they are or want to be just like Barbie are simply jocking her style and perfection. I don't think I have enough stamina or time to accompish all that Barbie does in her everyday life, and I'm not sure I know anyone that can either. In all reality, Barbie is fake. She is simply a doll that someone invented years ago so that little girls could be quiet and play while their mother did housework. And now, all of the sudden, everyone wants to be just like her? This makes no sense. Barbie is not real. And anyone saying that they strive to be like Barbie, or even are the "modern day" Barbie, are fake as well. many girls have gone to the extreme to even getting Barbie tattooed on them. I really want them to realize that there is no 80 year old Barbie invented. You do not see grandma Barbie driving around in her motor scooter. And I'm not sure that when you are 80 years old that you will still want to be called Barbie. So just remember that when you are all wrinkled up and old in the nursing home taking your sponge bath, when the attendant turns you over and sees that squished up wrinkly tattoo, if they can even make out the word Barbie anymore, they'll most likely laugh at you under their breathe for making such a stupid decision to try and be like a doll that is NOT REAL.Tattoos are permanent. Put some more thought into something that will be stuck on your skin forever.

I want to challenge girls everywhere to truely be themselves and not try and take attributes from various people to make up a foriegn identity for yourself. I love myself and would not change any part of my body for the world. my name is Jessica and I like to be called Jessica. I do not change for anyone because then that would make me fake as well. I would like to be respected as a writer and not as a Barbie look-a-like. Every girl should be happy with themself and embrace their beauty to the fullest. I would rather see a girl running around talking about how perfect she is as a young black female, than as the "Black Barbie".

Please do me a favor and throw out any Barbies you still own. Burn them. Or give them away. Barbie is for little kids, not young adults. Let your little sisters and nieces pretend they are Barbie, because one day they will grow out of it, kind of like how you should have.