Barbie vs “Real Life”
A few years ago, I got the opportunity to paint my newly purchased house. I was thinking of a blue-violet with red trim, but when I got the paint cards together with the color red I wanted, the best match turned out to be a pinkish-violet. A while later – maybe a year after it was done – I asked my boyfriend what he thought of it, and he goes “it looks like a Barbie mansion!” This was a surprise to me, but immediately appreciated. See, I had always wanted Barbie dolls when I was a kid, but I was denied them. At the time, my conservative Christian mom said it was because “Barbie is a sex symbol” and a “dating doll”. Years later, when the Heart Family (a Barbie & Ken style doll with two children) came out, I was allowed to have them. But the thing is, I […]
