It's the summer of Barbiecore fashion, "Barbenheimer" double features, and a worldwide shortage of a specific shade of fluorescent pink. Saying the "Barbie" movie has been hotly anticipated is like saying July in New York is hot - it doesn't do a modicum of justice to the truly immersive experience that being a Barbie fan this summer has been.
This, however, is the very same Barbie that has been endlessly critiqued for being a symbol of unrealistic, dangerous beauty standards, and there's actually a significant collection of scholarship that has backed up the idea that the doll hasn't generally been great for girls' body image. For example, a 2006 study in Developmental Psychology found that girls between ages 5 and 8 who were exposed to Barbies had lower levels of satisfaction with their bodies than those who were not. A decade later, a similar study in the journal Body Image came to a similar conclusion,...
This, however, is the very same Barbie that has been endlessly critiqued for being a symbol of unrealistic, dangerous beauty standards, and there's actually a significant collection of scholarship that has backed up the idea that the doll hasn't generally been great for girls' body image. For example, a 2006 study in Developmental Psychology found that girls between ages 5 and 8 who were exposed to Barbies had lower levels of satisfaction with their bodies than those who were not. A decade later, a similar study in the journal Body Image came to a similar conclusion,...
- 7/21/2023
- by Eden Arielle Gordon
- Popsugar.com
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