Among the most verbal critics of the upcoming Barbie movie are women's studies professors and other members of feminist academia, who insist that keeping the perfectly proportioned ideal alive — even in its most modern iteration — will set back girls everywhere (via Inquisitr).
"If filmmakers try to remake a real person to look like Barbie she will look too absurd for anyone to concentrate on the story," says Renee Sentilles, a women's studies professor at Case Western Reserve University.
And Executive Director of Women and Media in News Jennifer L. Pozner added, "Whatever very tall, very thin, huge rack-having, genitally incorrect, long-haired, blonde, white actress they get to play Barbie, even though she will be structurally sound unlike the doll, even though she won't fall forward on the weight of her own breasts and the lack of ability of her frame to hold herself up, she will still be taking a franchise into 3-D that tells girls that the further away they get from that white, skinny, tall, blond, big-rack ideal, the less pretty, the less valuable, and the less successful they'll be."
Damn. Do they not know that Human Barbie's out there in all her "absurd-looking" glory?
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