Posted by LambChop
From Reuters:
Feminist protesters
disrupted the opening of a life-sized Barbie’s
Dreamhouse Experience Berlin claiming
that it “objectified women.” The display promoted the Barbie Doll made by Mattel Inc. for
the past 54 years - the house allows paying visitors to try on Barbie's clothes,
play in her kitchen and on the pink piano.
The feminist group
Femen protested during the opening of a life-sized Barbie Dream House in Berlin,
Germany by chanting slogans. A topless woman, a member of the Femen protest
group, who had the slogan "Life in plastic is not fantastic" scrawled
across her chest, set fire to a Barbie doll tied to a mini crucifix. A male protester in a wig, pink shirt and
shimmering skirt held a poster reading: "Do you like me now?"
"There's too much emphasis on becoming more beautiful
and on being pretty and that puts an awful lot of pressure on girls as well as
wasting capacities which they could use to simply be happy or for school,"
said Stevie Meriel Schmiedel, a founding member of the "Pink Stinks"
protest group.
"We're protesting because Barbie would not be able to
survive with her figure and yet she is an idol for many girls and that's not
healthy," she said.
One placard read: "Dear Barbie - don't just bake
cupcakes, eat them too!"
The group’s website calls the Berlin protest a “Ritual
Barbie'cue with fried meat of the plastic idol was made to demonstrate the true
meaning of the history of commercial monster Mattel. They have turned a piece of
plastic into a god for millions of girls from all over the world who now seek
only to imitate plastic shapes and stupidity and absurdity of conduct.”
Femen describes itself as the “new woman,” the “new amazon,
capable of undermining the foundations of the patriarchal world by their
intellect, sex, agility, make disorder, bring neurosis and panic to the men’s
world. … Femen is sextremism serving to protect women’s rights, democracy
watchdogs attacking patriarchy, in all its forms: the dictatorship, the church,
the sex industry.”
Judging by the topless protestor-it looks like sour grapes to me. Barbie's boobs are bigger.
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