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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