Is Barbie a Good Role Model For Girls? Barbie dolls are the most popular toys for young girls. Parents choose Barbie as a mentor for their daughters as they grow up. In the essay, “You Can Never Have Too Many,” Jane Smiley discusses her experience with Barbie dolls. In addition, she witnesses her daughters grow up with Barbie influence.
In “Barbie Dream House,” there are 3 Caucasians, 1 African, and 1 that doesn’t show her face. One of the blonde girls is the main character because she gets to play with the doll house first while everyone in the background are non Caucasians. The blonde girl gets all the attention. As a leader of the commercial she gets to play with the doll. We need to be aware of what’s taking place in children programming’s.
I strongly agree with the Peggy Orenstein’s article. In my opinion, we have to forget the stereotypes that had been thought for years. Is a girl predisposed to play with pretty dolls wearing pink clothes? Definitely not. By only handing a girl pink playthings for the first three years of her life, she may decide pink is her favorite color because “that’s what girls like.” In fact, researchers think that parents and other social factors lead children to prefer gender-specific toys.
Smiley’s first Barbie doll came into her home when her now twenty-four year old daughter was three. The author describes how both of her daughters would only wear pink and purple as they went through the “Barbie phase.” Jane Smiley says, “Both of them (her daughters) learned how to put on makeup before kindergarten” (376). What Smiley means by this is that her daughters were advanced in age mentally. Smiley’s daughters were doing things at age five that most girls would only start doing at the beginning of their teenage years. Now that’s growing up without a childhood.
What needs to be kept in mind however, is that if the unplanned and the unintended consequences of technological innovation become dominant, it becomes a problem for the society, organisation and individuals. The doomsday scenario argues that humans employ technology to amoral and destructive ends, while the positive scenario is that humans have reason, choice and opportunity to take moral and just decisions about the use and application of technology and it is the ethics of new technologies and how they are used that are particularly relevant to HR
Piercy analyzes the girl from birth and uses a detached, expecting tone to portray her normality. In lines two through five Piercy creates a bitter tone when talking about the toys her parents presented her as a child. Piercy's tone can also seem as if she is disgusted because she talks about the “dolls that did pee pee” and uses a sarcastic alliteration when she said “lipsticks the color of cherry candy” (2-4). At this point it is clear the child is a toddler or in adolescence since she plays with these toys that little girls are expected to pay with at that age. The first stanza abruptly ends with “You have a great big nose and fat legs.” (6).
Author Greenfield’s Susan article, “Modern technology is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist”, published in MailOnline on 3rd August 2010, emphasizes technology is extensively modifying our life as human beings. The author, a neuroscientist, opposes technology that changes the physical and mental capacity of a normal human being. Greenfield Susan mentions the development of mood controlling drugs and prosthetic limbs. Greenfield asks the question, “What would such aspirations to be ‘perfect’ or ‘better’ do to our notions of identity,” concerned about individuality. In an experiment conducted it has been discovered that electronic devices and pharmaceutical drugs affect the brain’s micro- cellular structure and the complex biochemistry.
The context discusses in depth how technology can limit human interaction, in-turn affecting the development of social experiences. The purpose of technological innovation is to change the world and provide convenience and functionality. However, does the extent to which technology is used help or hinder our society in relation to human interactions? The increase of dependence on technology has created a form of laziness within society, limiting an individual for thinking for themselves. The world should not be created to have technology run it solely; humans should be more involved with processes that are in their control.
At any given time, approximately 25,000 Disney princess products can be found on store shelves, with more released every day. Are these mass marketed fairy tales in a box damaging our daughters by having them believe they are helpless and incapable and must be rescued by Prince Charming? Or are they inspiring our daughters to believe they can be heroines and have it all? As a mother I can understand the constant struggle to keep my own beliefs to myself while simultaneously allowing my daughter to grow and discover her own, or to my dismay Cinderella’s. (1) As a fellow feminist mother, I am of the same opinion as Ms. Orenstein regarding the princess obsession.
When we would be playing our computer games they are on Facebook. What does a seven year old actually do on Facebook? We now live in a world where children are inspired by glamour models, “wags”, pop stars, actors and beauty pageant queens. Little girls form when they are just babies are entered into the world of beauty pageaunts. There are three types of beauty pageants: Glitz, Semi-Glitz and Natural.