From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.angst
Subject: Re: Games
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:13:13 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: The Autodesk Menagerie - Housecat Division

In article <my7TVB3w165w@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> thespian@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Stephanie M. Clarkson) writes:
>scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Free) writes:
Lists games:
>> 	Barbie's Queen of the Prom
>> 	Barbie's Dream Date
>> 	Heart Throb
>> 	Dream Phone
>> 	
>> 	There were probably more, too.  The basic premise of all these 
>> games is to get a date with the hunk and avoid some "loser" date.  Just
>> what are we teaching our kids these days?  That the most important thing
>> is to be good-looking and popular?  There's more important things in life,
>> ya know, like Crown Royal and periodic squicking.
>
>right....lets go back to the days when we all played Life, where the 
>important thing was to marry the guy with the bucks instead of the 
>looks...:-)
> 
>(it's my birthday, 

Happy Birthday, Stephanie.

Anyway. 

Its interesting to see a male perspective on these games. It makes
men feel bad that girls are being conditioned at an early age to
select out the vast majority of men in favor of Ken dolls, who are
nicely proportioned and slender and have all their head hair because
their penises have been removed.

Trust me, the first time I got a Ken doll and changed his clothes, I
had a Colossal Brain Dump because he was not equipped like my little
brother at all. I knew Bubba was the rule and Ken was the exception.

So, it is terribly unfair to men to have women conditioned to love
plastic men without penises. This goes a long way towards explaining
the immense wealth of Michael Jackson and not his brother Jermaine.

For me, as a female nerd, there is another perspective. Recently Mattel
made a talking Barbie who whined "Math is HARD." No, its not.  Its
boring. There is a difference and girls who don't learn math, which
helps with basic work skills are going to use that excuse to justify
their inability to make CEO. I called and flamed on the phone, as did
all the other little girls and ex-little girls. Mattel won't do that.
Its propaganda, and its insidious.

I was born in 1956 and got a Barbie in 1963. Barbie had jobs back
then.  Admittedly, they were "female" jobs like teacher, nurse, torch
singer and flight attendant. But, they were jobs. In the 1970`s when us
hairy legged feminist types were marching all over the place and
allegedly burning their underwear, Mattel gave Barbie real jobs like
doctor and executive. Now its the 90's and Barbie is a mall rat or a
Miss America contestant.

Kids are stupid and their toys teach them things. Parents who are harried
and rush into Toys R Plastic grab stuff the kids have seen on TV and pay
it no mind. So, the girls are learning to be materialistic mall rats
selecting men with no penises and boys are learning to be serial killers
with lightning reflexes and a large array of armaments.

The carnage will be incredible. It will be a solution to our overpopulation
problem, but at what cost.

!Peeve: By the time these kids grow up, I will be too old and cootlike
to drive a Terminator Tank trained boy to kill me in frustration over
his inability to take me to the mall with his big wallet. I will be
dating old male coots whose favorite toys were harmonicas, crayons
and tricycles.

And those old coots will have penises, I guarantee it. I already have
the Crayolas.

ER
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