Comments on: As Barbie Goes, So Goes Womanity…

By: Harpy Seminar: Tattoo You! - The Pursuit of Harpyness

Harpy Seminar: Tattoo You! - The Pursuit of Harpyness — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:23:29 +0000

[...] Kari, you’ve come to the right place. BeckySharper wrote about tattooing a few months back, when there was cultural hand-wringing about the Tattoo Barbie, but we are happy [...]

By: Unpossible

Unpossible — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:15:59 +0000

hmmm, the “cheap sluts” part was supposed to have a strikethrough…HTML, I iz doin it rong.

By: Unpossible

Unpossible — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:14:27 +0000

Sadly, zooeyibz, the “tramp stamp” label is not exclusive to Britain. America also has cheap sluts women who have the audacity to put whatever they damn well please on their own bodies. The nerve!

By: zooeyibz

zooeyibz — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:37:08 +0000

I really hate the sexist anti-tattoo bullshit. In Britain lower-back tattoos are called 'tramp stamps' because, obviously, women who like tattoos are just cheap sluts. Argh.

By: Unpossible

Unpossible — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:19:43 +0000

[...returns from bathroom, wiping mouth]

I did not heed the warning. Ick. Although the line “Since I am a daddy, and life-long member of the male gender” (bold mine), did make me laugh. But yeah, definite creepster.

Since this article IS from 2001, that means that Her Royal Highness is now 14. Wonder how she feels about her doting Old-Fashioned Daddy these days?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:02:59 +0000

“Reduced Mammaries Barbie”? Really?? Cause y’know, having ginormous boobies for the consumption of the public takes precedence over intense back pain any day . . . . *headdesk* indeed.

What an idiot . . . thank God that my dad (despite being pretty WASP-y) has more sense. Mind you, I feel that things that grow underneath rocks have more sense than this guy.

By: AprilLayne

AprilLayne — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:02:22 +0000

That can’t be a real editorial. Are we sure it’s not from The Onion or something? Because that whole ‘all of my daughter’s Barbies are stacked (so to speak) completely naked on the shelves’ made me want to scrub my skin off. Blech…. And ‘Reduced Mammaries Barbie’? This guy seems a little too into his daughter’s collection.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:46:40 +0000

@cate: yep, it’s an old column. There have been tattoo barbies before.

By: cate3710

cate3710 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:44:55 +0000

Okay, wait, I’m confused – is the column old, from before there was a real tattoo Barbie? There’s a 2001 copyright at the bottom, but I’m not sure if that applies to the article itself, or the website design, or what.

By: cate3710

cate3710 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:39:49 +0000

I should not have read that article. I clicked on the link automatically, before I saw your warning.

A quick Google search reveals that there HAVE been Barbies with tattoos before: http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-N4758-Totally-Stylin-Tattoos/dp/B001NXO1YE (one that comes with temporary tats for the kid, too!). And I think there has been a Ken doll with an earring as well. So there, Old-Fashioned Daddy!