Is THIS the way you want to teach girls about the 60's and 70's?

[Archae]

:wtf:

Barbie To Take Girls On Tour Of 1960s, '70s
Books Aim To Teach Modern History

POSTED: 11:26 am CST March 28, 2005

Girls can now learn history, Barbie-style.

Mattel is getting together with Golden Books to launch the "Barbie Diary of the Decade" series. The Washington Post says the first two books focus on 1964 and 1976.

The '60s diary has Barbie hosting a Beatles party the first night they appear on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Barbie also learns about the Civil Rights Act with her African-American friend, Christie.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/family/4323104/detail.html

[Fridays Child]

1. "And through it all, I maintained my abnormally tiny waist by...

...vomiting three times a day."

[stellanoir]

2. Ughhhhhh

yet another triumph for the feminist movement. "Just be anatomically correct, (gentalia optional) have many outfits, perfect hair, and you'll do just fine darhling."

[LynneSin]

3. Does Barbie go to Woodstock and trip on the brown acid

:shrug:

[Nay]

4. Will Barbie get passed over again and again for the "man's" job

that she has trained a succession of younger men to do?

[bobthedrummer]

5. Ken gets drafted then and winds up in Vietnam.

Most of Christie's friends have their lives "disrupted" by Operation CHAOS and COINTELPRO.

[Deja Q]

6. Does Barbie smoke pot with Grace Slick too? Or are these books simply

a cleansed version of the decades they wish to address?

We need history. Not his story. (or in this case, her story... but Barbie is a male created fantasy anyway, no doubt.)