[–] Corruption22 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Is Barbie's new career claiming benefits, watching TV all day long and getting knocked up with a giant side of Tumblr?
If they want to inspire children Barbie should be in gym wear, eating salads, reading classic literature, training to be an astronaut or something! Kids don't give a flying fuck anyway, only the ham moms care.
"I don't want -WHEEZE- my child to grow -GRUNT- up with an eating disorder! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM"
[–] ShortWarrior 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
training to be an astronaut or something!
Barbie was an astronaut. Barbie has literally been everything, and she's not empowering enough.
[–] TwoWholePizzas 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Wait, i thought the issue was that the dimensions of Barbie were unrealistic. But then why are they still the same height, for fatties?
[–] NPBFatpatrol 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Just stick her head on a basketball body. Muh cuhrves edition.
[–] pray_the_gay_away 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
"Millennial parents" is the scariest term I have heard in a long time. If our parents raised us to be narcissists, imagine what our generation will do to the children... humanity is doomed.
[–] prisonersandpriests 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Nah, it'll self correct. One day a very large group of children will look at their parents and say "Fucking really?" and it'll all be over. Think about the hippie sit-ins, except they'll have gym 'fit-ins'.
[–] ShortWarrior 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The ones with other bodies don't look like Barbie, they look like other characters.
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[–] redditHasCooties 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Ginny Rommetty, CEO of IBM, she commands a company that employs almost 400,000 people, her annual salary (bonuses and other perks aside) is close to $20,000,000 a year.
Mary Barra, CEO of GM, she makes over $16M a year, she heads a company that employs over 216,000 people (so basically, if you count everyone in Salt Lake City you'd still be 26,000 people short of the number people whose jobs fall below hers at the company), GM declared a revenue of almost 39 billion dollars in the last quarter of 2015.
May-Britt Moser is a Neuroscientist who won the Nobel in Medicine in 2014. She's also the head of her department at her University in Norway.
General Ann Dunwoody was the first female 4-star General in the history of the US Army. During her time (she's retired now) she managed the largest logistics operation in the history of the US Army (which is not exactly small).
There are thousands of others, but I'd say those are better examples of "empowered women," you know, considering they are either women that can wield power over literally hundreds of thousands of employees any day of the week, or send ripples throughout the economy by decisions they make at work, or because they can speak at a conference anywhere and large groups of people will stop and listen.
Being fat is not power, it's just personal neglect. Power is power.
[–] The-Nard-Dog 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Just imagine if the business world wasn't so internally and openly fatphobic, these mildly capable twigs would be quickly replaced by REAL women who actually know how to fix problems.
/s
[–] PsychoSkinnyBitch 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I wanna make sweet, sweet love with this post.
[–] ShortWarrior 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
How about muscle?
[–] Carsandsarcasm ago
Crossfit Barbie. I don't know if it's real.
[–] CriticalMass 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
I thought that was like the point of Barbie. As a kid it was like Barbie was a vet, a doctor, a fucking astronaut, etc. and had a sweeeeettt house and car that she earned for herself (at least in my world). That's empowerment.
[–] Fierce_skinnybitch ago
That's why I think this marketing plan will fail...