Letters to the Editor
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Is that a serious question?
Do you really not see a difference between Barbie and the Pussycat Dolls? I must be missing the Barbie sex song, or the "Stripper Barbie" doll. I wasn't aware that Barbie now came outfitted in Times Square hookerwear.
Growing up, I never saw Barbie as a put-down towards women. Maybe because I was 7 and I didn't think that way. All I knew was, Barbie could be anything I wanted her to be. A doctor, a veternarian, a rock star. Only as an adult was I aware there was an issue with the way Barbie looked... but I've never heard anything said against her incarnations. Barbie does everything, from swan lake to race car driver.
The Pussycat Dolls are a burlesque show, for crying out loud. There is a gigantic difference between a 4 year old playing pretty pretty princess with an impossibly thin Barbie and playing pretty pretty pole dancer with an impossibly thin Pussycat Doll.
Gain some perspective, they're not the same at all.