I found an article comparing an "average" doll versus an unrealistic Barbie. An American artist Nickolay Lamm created a prototype of a Barbie-like doll last year based on US government measurements for an average 19-year-old American woman and the response was huge. He named her dolls Lammily. He wanted to find a way to show young girls the ideal and realistic body image that girls should be looking at and not at the unrealistic Barbies. He wants to stop the body image issues from getting worse among young girls.He also mentioned how he was not going to sit around and wait for toy companies to change their doll designs. He wanted to create his own manufactured doll and he then did create it. I am glad he was brave enough to show what a woman really looks like. I think that with the Lammily dolls their will be less body image issues among young girls.
The barbie on the right of that picture is better. I feel like year by year the barbie will get even skinnier and young girls will still be greatly influenced by toys, media, and models and other girls. we need to stop this stupidity of a perfect body. The perfect body of which everyone wants, no one has, the media changes the image to make into a perfect body as we have seen from the dove video and photoshopping.
ReplyDeleteIts true that the media has not done much to try and introduce the realistic and average body type of young girls out their, that is why this is a perfectly good example and step not only for a society but also something to impact the "perfect" image in the media. I think that what this man did was a great step towards a reality check for some girls and this could lead to more things that can eventually lead to acceptance of the average body type.
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