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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

PC Barbie

Hey guys, remember Barbie's friend Share a Smile Becky? She was just like every other doll. She loved to get her hair done and play with Barbie and get new clothes. Oh, and she was in a wheelchair.


But one day a young girl with cerebral palsy was playing with her new friend when she realized that Becky could not get into the Barbie dream house because it was not wheelchair accessible.

This story is totally true. Mattel made sure that they widened the doors to all of the dreamhouses, which was convenient because now Barbie could also invite her normally proportioned friend Cecil and High Riding Hoopskirt Cindy-Lou, both of whom also could not previously fit into the doors.

But nothing, nothing can quite explain this fiasco:

8 Comments:

At 3:01 PM, Blogger Jonah said...

um... isn't that house open on one side? thus making the doors irrelevant?

what an unimaginative, demanding and litigous girl.

 
At 3:04 PM, Blogger steph said...

oH MY GOD

 
At 3:22 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

I just can't get over Oreo Barbie.

 
At 3:43 PM, Blogger Raymi Lauren said...

why couldn't that selfish gimp just use her imagination, not even standing up barbie sans wheelchair can fit thru that fucking door. hello it's called FLOATING up into the house GOD.

 
At 3:55 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

Yeah, seriously.

 
At 7:50 AM, Blogger Jay said...

But how do you explain "Colored Francie" who made her debut in 1967, and she is sometimes described as the first African American Barbie doll.

 
At 9:21 AM, Blogger Tempy said...

Really? Is there one?

 
At 5:40 PM, Blogger Jay said...

Yes, yes there was. It used the same mold as the "normal" Francie doll, but was made out of dark plastic...
very creative.

 

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