The feminine ideal
In the children’s bookstore at the
Jinan Art Museum, I saw a book obviously intended for little Chinese girls.
Even in China, one cannot escape from Barbie, with her infinitesmal waist and gargantuan
chest. No Western woman I know is
actually shaped this way, and Chinese women have way smaller breasts than we. Besides, the Chinese have very dark
hair. Shouldn’t a doll look more like
the child who plays with it?
1 comment:
Most definitely! As in books, toys should reflect (mirror) the culture and allow a child to see other "real" cultures (windows). (It all goes back to Rosenblatt)! Without such depictions, alas, we have social issues based in individual dysfunction.
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