Pregnant Barbie - A quick Q&A
Jan 02 '03
The Bottom Line Getting comments and e-mails are fun, but since I have too many to answer individually I'll do it here instead.
Just when I thought it was safe to open my e-mail, the controversy over Immaculate Conception Midge and Infertile Alan has once again heated up and I seem, according to a fringe minority (or perhaps majority), to be the reason that Mattel has decided to pull the Happy Family off every shelf in the US.
Mattel claims it's a recall - I just think Mattel is chicken - they never seem to be able to stand behind any product that causes the consumer to go "Huh?"
Take for example Butterfly Art Ken and his posse - pulled from shelves I'd say in early to mid 2000, because get this dolls with tattoos are a bad influence on kids - hello, can you imagine any teen boy dragging his Ken doll down to the local tattoo parlor and saying, "Give me one honkin butterfly holographic tat just like. Please, Ken was an educational toy - about what not to get tattooed on your upper arm.
Then there was Earring Magic Ken - who got pulled through no fault of his own - it's just that the folks at Mattel were too dumb to realize what that ring could really be used for. Let's just hope with their new Prince Ken line they don't make the unfortunate mistake of naming one of them Albert - although it would be a good opportunity to use up all those recalled rings.
I'm sure by my purchasing these dolls and laughing about them I somehow caused them to vanish as well. I'm just that good. In fact according to many I'm all that and a lot more - so much so in fact that a chunk of my morning was spent sifting through the fan mail.
At first I thought to answer each one, but who has that much free time and since I saw many recurring themes in the notes, I thought it would be more efficient to just pick out my favorite quotes, comments and questions and address them here (if you find I haven't touched on a specific topic of interest, feel free to comment and I'll get back to you).
So here goes
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
Yes! I do every time I see her, and then I thank her for raising me in traditional 60s/70s household where the men ruled the roost and the women made martinis. If it hadn't been for that I might have thought that as an adult I should look pretty and keep my mouth shut, never uttering an original thought. In other words I wouldn't be such a big mouth today.
Oh, and just to clarify, she bought me my first Barbie.
Dear ignorant _itch,
Please that Miss _itch to you and I am not your dear. I take pride in how I am and always embrace the itch in myself - if you don't believe so, ask my friends from college - my junior year I dressed up like a tampon for Halloween because so many folks said I was a raggin' itch.
Can you crawl back under that rock you came out from under?
No, no I can't! I'm like that little groundhog; once I come out and see my shadow it's at least 6 more months of cranky.
If anyone disagrees with your opinion you call them names
Oh, my bad maybe I should just draw the target on my head and let everyone take free shots. Oh, I think that’s what they did.
Perhaps calling someone a moron, nut job or stupid wasn’t the most mature thing to do, but that was done after getting e-mail after e-mail that started off with words that rhyme with witch and hunt I did lose some self-composure.
Do you have to be so mean?
Yes, yes I do! I have lots of free time and I love to get my drink on – that isn’t always a pretty combination, but it does make for some funny Epinions, as long as I don’t get to drunk to type.
How can you pass yourself off as an expert?
Thanks for the compliment but I’m sure the words NED1 and expert never came out of my mouth or appeared in any sentence I wrote. I think I may have called myself a diva once, but never an expert. And frankly what am I supposed to be an expert in – wasting money on toys I hate?
It's so disgusting and your bitterness towards pregnancy would turn anybody off.
Obviously it didn’t turn off my husband - he shtupped me at least a few times to get all these kids.
And since when is honest the same as bitter? Am I never supposed to say I barfed or started lactating uncontrollably during a major business meeting? What rock do you live under? The one at the corner of let’s lie to the kids and candy cane lane where every pregnancy is happy and every woman never has problems?
Is a piece about a plastic doll an accurate representation of my 4 pregnancies – heck no! It’s a goof, wake up and get the rocks out of your head. Although, I will add I wish someone had been honest with me during my 1st pregnancy – and spelled out all the horrible things that could have happened. It would have saved me a lot of worry and trips to doctor – frankly I never knew my boobs could do half the things they did.
Despite the realities we have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world so guess they aren't listening . . .
Hello, has the air thinned out so much on Mars that you can’t think straight? How did my piece about Midge turn into a lecture about the teen pregnancy rate? Maybe I should get in my time machine, go back 16 years or so, post the piece and everything will change. All I know is I have one, she isn’t pregnant yet so I must be doing something so-so.
Many women, like Pam Anderson or Demi Moore snap back to their pre-pregnancy size soon after delivery (and yes, those are the examples they used)
Heck if I had that much plastic and silicone in me I’d expect to snap back as well.
Also, who said I didn’t snap back – three out of four times I did, in fact with my 1st three I weighed less leaving the hospital than I did when I got pregnant. Co-workers use to joke that I was the only pregnant woman they’d ever seen with a waist.
PS – not that it’s any of your business, but after baby number 4 the hub and I beat Pam and Tommy’s other snapping back record, and if you don’t know what that is, go search for the fact.
How dare you distort what is suppose to be a doll showing family values
Please, what am I supposed to do, crank out some lame review documenting what you get with the doll – I don’t earn any money on this site, so I may as well have fun.
And by the way – why do you need a doll to teach your child family values? Isn’t that your job as the parent? If you need to rely on Barbie for that, you have no right to criticize my family or me. All I can say is thank god you didn’t use the term Barbie and role model in them same sentence.
And last but not least – my all time favorite quote from all these letters
How dare you express your opinion in such an open way
This one gets me every time. And you wonder why I use words like stupid and moron in my comments.
DUH!! Hello, have you seen the name of the site or did that small tidbit fly past you? I guess I should stick to ingredient lists and listing out the box contents – never once inserting my thought or opinion about the toy or how I used it.
Now, like I said earlier – if I left of something negative you said about me, feel free to comment and I will address it. Oh, by the way –I’m just about to ship Midge out –so if you’d like to join the Pass the Pregnant Barbie Write-off let me know – why should I have all the glory.
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