I had just begun to live. A lot of women feel powerless and afraid to find their own individual voice. So they end up using food or lack of it to compensate for the hidden voice that is buried deep within them. If Barbie suddenly became a real person, she might very well have a hidden voice, different from the one society has given her. However, the fact that she cannot speak leaves women and young girls with a message that society has continued to send, through the media and fashion industry.
Society tends to forget about individual people and their feelings.
Barbie is in fact just a doll, created by one woman and then endorsed time and time again by a society that has spent billions and billions of dollars trying to become the perfection she radiates. Plastic surgery, diets and self starvation are just a few of the many ways women have attempted to have that perfect body. More times than not, it results in failure and leaves women feeling even worse about their bodies. So while society is trying to shape up in the gym to become healthier, what we really have is an unhealthy society, with cruelty and disapproval of the less fit. We are trying so hard to discard anything larger than a size ten from our closets, that we are not really living.