No, not some kid paper, unless you find them childish.

Oh, who knows what he really thinks. Keep in mind he got called and asked for a quote (like I did), who knows what he said in its entirety, you only end up getting a snippet.

That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time. Do you think they guy objecting to the dress would just prefer that she be wearing generic clothing or maybe not even be featured (in which case he might also complain). Hm.

I’m actually not a fan of Barbie period, but we won’t get into that. I don’t think that Mattel went out of their way to be stereotypical with Mexican Barbie. All of the Dolls of the World are represented similarly.  Not being a Barbie consumer, when I looked into it and saw that all the Dolls of the World came with passports, that wasn’t an issue for me. The Chihuahua is laughable (to me at least), but so is giving the Chinese doll a panda. I think all of the dolls in the collection are a sort of over-simplified interpretation, but it’s Mattel not a cultural anthropology course. If I were French I would have written something humorous about the French doll or so on and so forth. I think for many the imagery is coming out of context meaning they do not know it is part of a collection where all the dolls are dressed in “traditional-ish” costumes so when they see the Mexican Barbie with a passport and Chihuahua it strikes a chord that brings up issues we are having on a larger level. We and by we I mean Mexicans or Mexican-Americans or American-Mexicans are still for the most part represented as a stereotype in media, so maybe seeing the Mexican Barbie without the other dolls in the collection is a bit disgruntling. It’s also a bit odd that the issue is coming up right now because the doll has been out for months, it’s not new so to speak. I wrote about it the way I did because I consider myself a humorist and thought I could write about it in a humorous fashion. Some people seem to be truly angry about it, me I think we have bigger fish to fry and I’m not using Barbie to teach my kids about culture anyway. Now, let’s say that my daughters wanted a Mexican Barbie, would I get it for them? Probably because I’m not particularly worried that they will think Mexican women only wear modified traditional dress and carry Chihuahuas, but I would be slightly disappointed because I’m not a Barbie kind or princess kind of gal, which probably guarantees that they will be and that’s okay, they don’t need to be like me.
Anyway, that’s my take on it.

And p.s. I wish you peace with your nursing issues.

I’m sure you were beyond appropriate. I don’t know how the commenting system works over there. I should, but I don’t. I’m afraid to read the comments over there sometimes because people can be mean. I’ve been called a hypocrite and a racist. Oh well.

Thank you for the tip.

I am still sick and it is driving me crazy. Every morning I wake up hoping to feel better and nope, I still feel like junk. I went ahead and started taking the antibiotics this morning because I just can’t take it anymore. Wish me luck.

I take Vitamin World 10 which has 10 strains of good bacteria.

I read your post on the Barbie and loved it. I even thought I had a clever little comment but it wasn’t published. What gives? I swear I was appropriate! 🙂

Anywho, have a restful weekend! And treasure those last nursing moments…