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I had one of those "growing up" Skipper dolls as a kid and I loved her. Maybe I was oblivious, but I really don't remember much to do made about it at the time, but I do remember that eventually they added a little sister and Skipper became a younger teen sister.
Why did they make Barbie a slut? I had Midge, thank God it was before she could be pregnant by I don’t know how! I would’ve been mortified but not as much as my parents!
I loved my Kissing Barbie! My uber religious parents bought it for me. I don't recall there being any fuss about it, anywhere. I had shaving Ken, too. The one with black hair.
I don’t either. I made some of my Barbie’s as rich and upscale. I also made all my blonde and Caucasian Barbies as Southern Belles! So much fun. But Midge is my favorite. And having a woman have a baby is so sweet and should be seeing as normal. Women get pregnant and give birth.
@gbear2253 It’s the same thing with Growing Up Skipper. Both puberty and pregnancy are crucial stages in life and are a part of the human cycle. Growing Up Skipper is teaching children about the different developmental stages of their bodies from pubescent to teen to adulthood, whereas Pregnant Midge is teaching children about pregnancy and birth. In no way, shape or form were the dolls trying to encourage girls to become pregnant teenagers or attempting to sexualize themselves. Parents were just being overly sensitive.
@@niabelizaire3596 I don’t understand what the issue is. You’re right! Puberty and pregnancy is what humans go through. Why would parents (adults) have an issue with that? LOL
Even as a kid, I never understood why pregnant Midge was horrifying. I remember one of a friend’s mom seeing the commercial and saying the doll was “disgusting” while she herself was pregnant.
The Problem many people had with it was that the Doll it self was modeled after a Teenager. Like 15-19. The Taboo is born when you combine Pregnancy with 15-19 year olds. the whole "Teen Pregnancy Bad" It's encouraging Promiscuous Behavior. The Difference between "Pregnant Midge" and Your Friend's Mom was Your friend's Mom was Married. Midge was seen as the Girl who engaged in risky behavior with her boyfriend and then they were forced to give up their early adult lives and get married because they had a baby to look after because they made poor choices even if that wasn't Mattel's intent, many people thought Mattel was promoting Unhealthy habits. Trust me I think it was an over reaction too. I wish I had that doll. Call me a Perv if you want but I loved Playing Mommy and Daddy with my dolls as a kid. I always made them married and the Doll was always appropriate age. It was my imagination. I imagined my barbie dolls to be in their 20s not mid to late teens. Is that weird? No
@@ericahyland1624 But where did the idea of her being 15-19 years old come from? Apparently Midge was meant to be married to Allan and already had a toddler with him, I would expect that they would at least be represented as being on their early to mid 20s. Nothing disgusting about it, and even if she wasn't "married", she's just a doll 🙄 goes to show there were always Karens wanting to complain about everything.
@@declaracionespolemicas I know it's crazy. I guess the misconception that Midge was supposed to be a teenager came from the fact that Barbie was a Teenager and they were supposed to be best friends back in their home town. We're never told how old Midge is so people assumed she and Barbie were the same age. However it is possible for say a Sophomore in High school to be Friends with a Senior or even a Freshman to be friends with a Junior. It just means that one party is slightly older then the other. If they were childhood friends
Than it stands to reason that Midge was probably 2-4 years Barbie's Senior. If That's the Case Then If Barbie is about 17 or 18 as we know her, That would make Midge between 20 and 23, Perfectly acceptable age to be a mother and in this case in marketing, Have a 3 year old son and a second on the way
She said Math Class is tough.Maybe her math class is tough. She doesn't say "Girls should never be in math class."She's sticking it out ,studying math . And doing her best in it.
And if anything for those who struggle in math, look at all the other career options you can have! Literally do you know how many people in my pre-law classes that were like I'm shit at math so I tried to pick a career that didn't use it a lot?
I like that they acknowledged all of the discontinued Barbies and Kens in the movie. Them not partaking in the Kendom is likely due to them going through the same identity crisis as Barbie.
And the children dolls? Kelly - now renamed Chelsea for some reason?, Tommy, Stacie, Skipper, the twins Tutti and Todd? And other friends and family like Francie, Krissy and Jazzie?
A lot of the discontinued Ken dolls had gay coding behind them (Sugar Daddy Ken and Earring Magic ken specifically - as was Allan) and were not part of the patriarchy, because as we know the patriarchy (in the real world) has been historically exclusionary towards homosexual men. It’s quite a nice detail the film did
Apart from the slumber party barbie having the diet book, i see nothing wrong with any of the other barbies and kens mentioned. People always want something to complain about.
I remember having that toy, but it also came with a cat that drank water and "peed" in a litter tray. I had no idea the original set was recalled due to the magnets. I don't recall having problems with them. Maybe I was lucky.
Literally my two favourite barbies were both on this list. Pregnant barbie and barbie and tanner were the best and i would definitely have loved the pregnant dog one too i loved the concept of them. Honestly i don’t understand what’s wrong with them especially pregnant midge, its literally a fact of life and in my opinion quite a good way to explain the concept of pregnancy to kids without giving too much detail.
My daughter is now 24 and I swear we had to buy at least 4-5 Midges when she was little. She ALWAYS lost the damned baby. We went to see the movie and reminisced over her love of the Midge doll.
I had the pregnant Midge doll & I remember I loved it.. it’s kinda wild to see so many people were against it, my family never complained & plus I’m 30 now and still never had a child 😂
I had Midge too, loved her, and never knew she had so many hating her. Also, I too still don't have kids 27. So idk what they thought we were thinking.
I bought my daughter the pregnant Midge doll...and her husband Allan, kid Ryan and the grandparents too. The only thing that bothered me about Midge was that the baby came out through a panel in her belly. I made sure my daughter knew that our bellies don't just have a flap that babies come out of. Oh and I had Growing up Skipper as a kid...if you left Skipper as a teen for too long, her breasts stayed when you made her 8 again.
I love all these dolls. I did have the Growing Up Skipper and she was one of my favourites. I cranked that arm so many times. At least these iterations of Barbie were creative and helped with play time scenarios. Puberty, babies and pets are wholesome things that kids look forward to role playing with when they're in the Barbie stage. Nothing wrong with any of it. People always find something to complain about. It's not like they were rolling out Fifty Shades Barbie and Prison Time Ken.
Pregnant Midge was one of my fav Barbies. I didn’t care about the belly or baby. I threw em away. I thought her hair & freckles made her more beautiful & interesting than the basic Barbies I had at the time.
A few of my friends have told me their mothers refused to buy them a Barbie. It made them feel “less than” by their friends and were teased for not having a Barbie. It’s been 50 years and they still feel bitter about it because they were left out. That’s the worst feeling at all for a kid.!
I honestly don't get the hate the Pregnant Midge doll got. It was my favorite Barbie to play with since I was the type of little girl that liked to play "Mommy", and Midge was perfect for that. To each their own, I guess 🤔
I look at it differently than some people. The Pregnant Midge doll and overall Happy Family line is showcasing Midge’s milestones and not following in the footsteps of her famous friend. While Barbie is continuing to build her resume with a plethora of careers, Midge is experiencing significant changes in her life such as tying the knot and starting a family. Critics are neglecting the fact that Midge actually did get married back in the nineties and that in the Happy Family line of dolls, she is a married adult and instead of acknowledging that, they’re deeming her as an "unwed teenage mother”. Although the pregnant Midge doll and the Happy Family line came out in the early aughts way before I even existed and I was born in ‘06 and if I was ever born in that time period that the Happy Family line came out, my mother would have no problem buying me that doll at all. Like Growing Up Skipper, Pregnant Midge isn’t that deep because these dolls are teaching children and generally young girls that puberty and pregnancy are a part of life and that we can’t eliminate those things out of the equation because it happens to everyone 💯
There were people who thought it was glorifying out-of-wedlock pregnancy because they didn’t realize she was part of a play set and others who thought it out unfair pressure on girls to become a mommy instead of having a career.
@@niabelizaire3596 Exactly!! I'm a Biologist. For me Having the Growing up Skipper or Pregnant Midge Dolls would have encouraged the sciences in me from a young age. Heck I probably would have even take all my dolls from baby to adult to line up the human growth cycle and Pregnant midge would be the focal point
@@niabelizaire3596 people are thinking way too deep about a toy... They are giving a lot of context to the life of a doll. Kids don't care about all that story behind the characters, they just care about playing with the toys. I didn't even know that there were several characters portrayed in the Barbie collection. As an 80's kid, for me, it was always Barbie and Ken having different lives in every toy, as if in alternated universes.🤷♀ As for the pregnant Barbie, it seems a lot of fun to play with it. Even today, I'd like to have that one.
I had the original Midge in the early 60s. She was adorable. Barbie’s best friend with auburn hair in a flip style with bangs and sweet freckles. A refreshing change from Barbie. No baby.
I loved the pooping dog one when I was little, it was so much fun being able to feed her. I also probably would have loved the pregnant dog, shaving ken, ageing up, and midge ones. Young me loved creating slice-of-life stories with barbie dolls.
I loved my Midge doll she was one of my favorites. As a child I was curious with pregnancy and babies thought it was interesting. Midge was a great tool to explore that through play. Parents were uncomfortable because they were afraid it would lead to an uncomfortable conversation that they didn’t want to have with their children. Which is apart of life and they blamed on a toy company that obviously did a lot of research on the matter that is appropriate for children.
I have a Growing Up Skipper in near mint condition. She still works and her clothing is still very clean. My mother bought her for me in 1975 when I was 11 years old.
I wish that they'd given Midge more to do in the movie, especially since I love Emerald Fennell. Instead, she just hung around, and didn't even get to speak, from what I remember.
The narrator basically dismissed her as another discontinued Barbie doll. I also noticed that Christie, Teresa and Kiara were omitted from the film given how much they stood by her side over the years. However, Christie was included in the ending credits. Nonetheless, the film was still beautiful 🩷🎥
In the 60’s - 80’s Barbie also had a friend named PJ. And the precursor to pregnant Midge was The Heart Family in the 80’s. They were Barbie’s married friends with a son and a daughter. In the original set the kids were twins, but there were later editions where Mom (they were never given first names) was “pregnant” and came with a maternity outfit that converted to a post-maternity outfit after she “gave birth” to the included newborn.
Interestingly, Ken's first foray into facial hair was 1973 Mod Hair Ken. He came with a sheet of flocked facial hair pieces that could be applied to his face. The adhesive was supposed to be reuseable, and the pieces included sideburns, moustaches, and a goatee. This concept was reused in 1976 for The Now Look Ken. These Ken dolls were paired with the Quick Curl and Deluxe Quick Curl lines of Barbie dolls, respectively. Needless to say those flocked stickers were not really a great concept, and 1980 Sport 'N Shave Ken was the next evolution of the idea. Instead of stickers, he came with a brown marker, and the doll's owner could draw facial hair on the doll that could be 'shaved' with water and foam 'razors'.
I had the Barbie and Tanner set when it first came out. I really loved playing with that doll set because it was one of the things that taught how to be a responsible owner.
I had the whole set for Midge and loved her, seeing her in the Barbie movie I was so excited. I didn't know so many parents hated her. Idk what they thought we were thinking as kids.
People complained that it glamorized pregnancy out of wedlock. Mattel even had to make a statement to point out that she was married and her husband and son were sold as part of that line. They did attempt to fix it by adding a cut out of them next to her in her box but they still ended up discontinuing the line due to people still complaining. I thought it was so ridiculous. It made no sense.
I still have pregnant Midge with baby and a ton of adorable tiny accessories. My husband got her for me when I got pregnant for the first time. I guess that would make him Allan, haha. It was so clear on the box and on the store shelves that Midge and Allan were married and there was a whole family, even grandparents. My first Barbie was ballerina Barbie and I loved her so much. I wanted to be a ballerina very much, and she inspired me. My sister had hairstyle Barbie. You could cut her hair and then pull more out. She came with a hair dryer, curling iron, and all the hair accessories. I was jealous, but not when she eventually ran out of hair and went bald. We also had a fake "barbie" who was very ugly. She was thick so she didn't fit the regular clothes, her limbs didn't bend, and her hair was dark and poufy. Sadly, she didn't get much attention once we got our "real" ones. My daughters had the roller skating Barbie from the movie, a hand-me-down from their cousins.
Absolutely! In school, I felt like something was wrong with me because my mom said math was "so easy" and I just had the hardest time with it! Hearing Barbie say math is tough might have made me feel more normal and better about it 🩷
@@samanthavonteese333right? Like I get what they're trying to say and that it seems like it's a lot harder to be taken seriously in the field of STEM if you're a woman, but some girls legitimately _do_ find math to be difficult and it should be okay for them to express that
@ricochet9288 Exactly! We’re not trying to make math more difficult than it is, some of us have trouble comprehending, solving and retaining these complex mathematical concepts. Math isn’t for everyone. I know a lot of girls and women that find math hard and I know a lot of girls and women who are mathematicians. I’m not good at math and my mother isn’t good at math either. So I don’t think the Teen Talk Barbie is being stereotypical. Math is an essential yet difficult subject to learn, especially for me. I just think that parents are being overly sensitive and can’t handle the truth about it.
@@niabelizaire3596 hard agree. Heck, I used to have meltdowns basically every day over math when I was younger and I still get stressed out from it really easily, so if one of my favorite fictional characters would've expressed that they also found math difficult, I would've felt more validated instead of like I was an idiot for not understanding it
The idea for Barbie was based on a German adult comic strip about a saucy dominatrix named Bild Lily. A doll was made and sold in adult novelty shops. A wife of one of the partners of Mattel saw the comic strip and doll, realized that girls were making their baby doll act like grown ups and presented the idea to Mattel. It was an uphill battle, with minimal production. This is why the first year dolls are so collectable and expensive. Mattel bought the rights to Lily, didn't really change her look and Barbara Millicent was born as a teenager.
@@abi_cat28 I have seen the cartoons of Lily in spike heels, garter belt and seamed stockings. She became a doll and sold them in adult stores as a novelty .This is the doll that the CEOs wife bought and took to Mattel. Find a picture of your comic. Mattel even kept the original hairdo.
@danielclaeys7598 while she WAS sold in adult shops, she was not a dominatrix. The debate about her and Barbie is definitely interesting, but put some respect on Barbie and Lily's name smh
@@abi_cat28 You can shake your head until it spins off. It doesn't change the facts concerning the origins of the doll. I'd bet money that there're some Disney story origins that you would not like either.
Talk about how small minded and crystal people were/are (nowadays is worse). I'm 25 and i used to have almost all of these dolls (they were mostly gifted) and they never influenced me to anything. My favorite one is( and always will be) the Midge doll, 20 years later she's still with me , with all of her parts and the baby XDDD.
While I can understand being concerned that some things portray Women as unintelligent, I don’t think mentioning that Math is a little harder to work through for some is that bad. Math just is tough for some people.
I had a Kelly doll (Barbie’s little sister) that had chicken pox and you could use water to make the spots disappear. It was by far the strangest toy I ever had growing up
I had Midge growing up and honestly I remember playing with her quite a bit. I loved that she had a baby, but I don’t think it needed the whole stomach thing, it was kinda weird when your barbie gives birth then you have a stomach lying around 😅
Does anyone remember Birthday Party Barbie? She was designed to blow out her own candles but her lips looked prepared to do...something else. My coworkers referred to her as "BJ Barbie"
That’s fair feedback but again, the real problem in most of these is the fact that adults are giving feedback based on their adult minds instead of looking at all of these dolls from the perspective of a child. Nearly anything can be turned into something “dirty” when we look at it from our adult perspectives. Kids minds won’t go there unless they have been taught those things somewhere & that’s a sign of a bigger problem going on. Adults are always judging kids & their toys from adult perspectives.
I had all these dolls with the exception of talking teen and the very strange Skipper doll! I loved the pregnant Barbie doll! I have yet to see the movie, but I am so excited! 😊😊
I saw an ad for The Birds Barbie in Biglots as a kid and it never left my mind. I finally bought one this year and it's like an itch in my brain has finally been scratched. I also ended up getting a Rosie O'Donnell Barbie too as my sister and I had wanted one since kids.
The fuss over the pregnant Midge was more about the lack of being able to see a wedding ring on the doll's finger. Some were concerned it would sanction teen pregnancy. What it really showed was, people don't read/pay attention before they act since the back of the box had pictures of Midge and Alan's wedding and their older child, Ryan. Mattel released several dolls in the bridal party including a six dolls set with Midge, Alan, Barbie, Ken, Kelly (renamed Stacie in that size and Kelly became the name of the toddler sister), and Todd (a reuse of the name of Tutti's twin) about 1990.
I had Barbie and Tanner. There’s nothing creepy about them. Dogs poop, in real life, and you have to clean up after them. At least it wasn’t with a plastic bag!
I still have my shave and fun Ken. I think he was my favorite out of all of my Ken dolls. Also, these commercials made me miss being a kid. I loved playing with my Barbies.
"🎶🎶🎶I'm a Barbie girl In a Barbie world Life in plastic It's fantastic..."🎶🎶🎶 What a great top Ms Mojo, have a happy thursday afternoon and i hope i see you soon for more. Greetings from Colombia.
I read this comment before, but I will paraphrase. I think teen talk barbie saying math class is tough isn't a bad thing as it shows even though barbie is depicted as perfect, and saying the phrase "I love school don't you" it shows that barbie still has some problems and flaws making her more human. Like who doesn't struggle with math.
I still want to complete the Happy Family set (or at least get the grandparents). I hate how uptight people were with that line (and as much as I love the Barbie movie, they got the throwaway line about Midge wrong; she still had dolls made of her after that. The line was discontinued, but she wasn't.)
My friend had a pregnancy midge. It lead to a weird conversation where she said it was disgusting babies are born naked, and I tried to figure out how she thought clothes should be made in a mommy belly
@Catmom2005 NO ( sadly ) I'm sure they meant for it to only have one meaning ~ the meaning adults know . They only cleaned up the description of THAT Ken doll ( to have the dog's name be sugar & he be it's " daddy " ) for the movie hoping people would forget they made a SERIOUSLY WRONG business decision that made them look like paedophiles . It innocently an attempt at getting all adults to buy Barbie dolls for themselves , not realising less than 1% of adults will ever make such purchases ~ wealthy adults ( mostly men , collector items hobbyists ) . ♑️✍️🇸🇯🇦🇺
I had a pregnant Barbie when I was growing up. She was one of my favourites. The kissing Barbie is hilarious too, I never owned one but I was absolutely making Barbie kiss. The complaint the public had there is nonsensical.
Not sure that I had the Barbie from the Barbie & Tanner set but I still have Tanner! I always thought it was fun using the magnetic scooper to pick up the “mess”
The only one I found to be “disturbing” was the first slumber party doll with the weight loss book. The rest of these, are great ways to teach kids things. The skipper doll is a great way to show puberty in young girls, the dog mom dolls are a great way to teach responsibility with pets, the midge doll is a great way to teach about babies, how to handle them etc. honestly it seems to me that parents are way overhyping the concern for this.
Im sorry, but I just don't really see an issue with any of these dolls. If people are THAT concerned about them, maybe those people need to look into why they have such an issue.
I loved playing with the Happy Family line! I am so sad that they took it away and they should bring it back! And Midge did get married in the 90’s I believe and Barbie is not a teenager anymore so obviously Midge isn’t either! 🙄
The pregnant Midge controversy was not really about her age initially. All anyone was taking about when she came out was that she did not have a ring on her finger. The recalled those ones and re- released her with a wedding ring. It being about her age is new to me.
I remember when the tattoo Barbie came out, my mom was so pissed because I was already starting to talk about wanting tattoos (I was 14 at the time) but the doll ended up reigniting my love for Barbie. By the way, got my first tattoo on my 22nd birthday :)
I see nothing wrong with kissing Barbie- as in WHY is it “outlandish” on this list here? Creative, yes!! (honestly, I don’t even think it’s THAT creative… I mean, the doll is PERFECT BARBIE, complete with perfect lips & red lipstick.)
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I had one of those "growing up" Skipper dolls as a kid and I loved her. Maybe I was oblivious, but I really don't remember much to do made about it at the time, but I do remember that eventually they added a little sister and Skipper became a younger teen sister.
Why did they make Barbie a slut? I had Midge, thank God it was before she could be pregnant by I don’t know how! I would’ve been mortified but not as much as my parents!
I loved my Kissing Barbie! My uber religious parents bought it for me. I don't recall there being any fuss about it, anywhere.
I had shaving Ken, too. The one with black hair.
X Files Barbie and Ken probably the oddest
camera Barbie is banned because God hacked and the bird Barbie and the cat Barbie😢 this is very sad because I love Arby’s I was a little
I don’t find anything wrong with the Pregnant Midge doll, I mean it’s a part of life 🤷🏾♀️
Suprise that they didnt show that Robot Chicken clip. There an episode of Robot Chicken where a Barbie doll been sent to live among the reject toys
I don’t either. I made some of my Barbie’s as rich and upscale. I also made all my blonde and Caucasian Barbies as Southern Belles! So much fun. But Midge is my favorite. And having a woman have a baby is so sweet and should be seeing as normal. Women get pregnant and give birth.
@gbear2253 It’s the same thing with Growing Up Skipper. Both puberty and pregnancy are crucial stages in life and are a part of the human cycle. Growing Up Skipper is teaching children about the different developmental stages of their bodies from pubescent to teen to adulthood, whereas Pregnant Midge is teaching children about pregnancy and birth. In no way, shape or form were the dolls trying to encourage girls to become pregnant teenagers or attempting to sexualize themselves. Parents were just being overly sensitive.
@@niabelizaire3596 I don’t understand what the issue is. You’re right! Puberty and pregnancy is what humans go through. Why would parents (adults) have an issue with that? LOL
Me either! Some people didn't read the box, thought Midge was an unwed teen mom and lost their minds.
Even as a kid, I never understood why pregnant Midge was horrifying. I remember one of a friend’s mom seeing the commercial and saying the doll was “disgusting” while she herself was pregnant.
The Problem many people had with it was that the Doll it self was modeled after a Teenager. Like 15-19. The Taboo is born when you combine Pregnancy with 15-19 year olds. the whole "Teen Pregnancy Bad" It's encouraging Promiscuous Behavior. The Difference between "Pregnant Midge" and Your Friend's Mom was Your friend's Mom was Married. Midge was seen as the Girl who engaged in risky behavior with her boyfriend and then they were forced to give up their early adult lives and get married because they had a baby to look after because they made poor choices even if that wasn't Mattel's intent, many people thought Mattel was promoting Unhealthy habits. Trust me I think it was an over reaction too. I wish I had that doll. Call me a Perv if you want but I loved Playing Mommy and Daddy with my dolls as a kid. I always made them married and the Doll was always appropriate age. It was my imagination. I imagined my barbie dolls to be in their 20s not mid to late teens. Is that weird? No
@@ericahyland1624 But where did the idea of her being 15-19 years old come from? Apparently Midge was meant to be married to Allan and already had a toddler with him, I would expect that they would at least be represented as being on their early to mid 20s. Nothing disgusting about it, and even if she wasn't "married", she's just a doll 🙄 goes to show there were always Karens wanting to complain about everything.
@@declaracionespolemicas I know it's crazy. I guess the misconception that Midge was supposed to be a teenager came from the fact that Barbie was a Teenager and they were supposed to be best friends back in their home town. We're never told how old Midge is so people assumed she and Barbie were the same age. However it is possible for say a Sophomore in High school to be Friends with a Senior or even a Freshman to be friends with a Junior. It just means that one party is slightly older then the other. If they were childhood friends
Than it stands to reason that Midge was probably 2-4
years Barbie's Senior.
If That's the Case Then If Barbie is about 17 or 18 as we know her, That would make Midge between 20 and 23, Perfectly acceptable age to be a mother and in this case in marketing, Have a 3 year old son and a second on the way
I had it and my mom and I loved it, not unhinged at all
My sister had Midge. We loved it! We are both in our 30s now and neither one of us has ever had a child. So no, it wasnt a bad influence on us. haha
Ahhaah me too. I am 36 now, had that one. And don’t even want to get pregnant evrr😂
I had that doll too
Me too 😊
I’m 28 and had that doll too! Wasn’t a bad influence either. Really goes to show you how adults don’t always understand children.
Me too.
She said Math Class is tough.Maybe her math class is tough. She doesn't say "Girls should never be in math class."She's sticking it out ,studying math . And doing her best in it.
And if anything for those who struggle in math, look at all the other career options you can have! Literally do you know how many people in my pre-law classes that were like I'm shit at math so I tried to pick a career that didn't use it a lot?
I know I hate math I'm terrible at algebra
As someone who hates math I approve of this message
That’s how I see it! Everyone has subjects that are hard for them, hers happens to be math. 🤷🏻♀️
Hearing that phrase from a doll isn’t going to have any more negative impact than if it was said by a person.
I like that they acknowledged all of the discontinued Barbies and Kens in the movie. Them not partaking in the Kendom is likely due to them going through the same identity crisis as Barbie.
Well not all of them. Black Canary Barbie and Oreo Barbie weren't there.
And the children dolls? Kelly - now renamed Chelsea for some reason?, Tommy, Stacie, Skipper, the twins Tutti and Todd?
And other friends and family like Francie, Krissy and Jazzie?
A lot of the discontinued Ken dolls had gay coding behind them (Sugar Daddy Ken and Earring Magic ken specifically - as was Allan) and were not part of the patriarchy, because as we know the patriarchy (in the real world) has been historically exclusionary towards homosexual men. It’s quite a nice detail the film did
@@Adv18 yeah, they were a great additional detail.
@@Adv18 Not the gay coding 😭YAAAAS
Apart from the slumber party barbie having the diet book, i see nothing wrong with any of the other barbies and kens mentioned. People always want something to complain about.
But look at when that Barbie came out. That was a sign of the times! Was it the best? No. But we can't just pretend it didn't happen.
That's exactly it @gellerbingsgaming, if they can't find fault in something, they'll make up a reason to bitch and moan about something else.
I know right? If Mattel sold a pregnant Barbie in this day n age I bet alot more people would get it because young mom's aren't shamed anymore.
I think that the diet book is where Mattel fucked up at.
That Barbie & Tanner set was the first and only Barbie doll I ever got, and it was solely for the concept. I'm glad it got referenced in the movie.
I remember having that toy, but it also came with a cat that drank water and "peed" in a litter tray. I had no idea the original set was recalled due to the magnets. I don't recall having problems with them. Maybe I was lucky.
Literally my two favourite barbies were both on this list. Pregnant barbie and barbie and tanner were the best and i would definitely have loved the pregnant dog one too i loved the concept of them. Honestly i don’t understand what’s wrong with them especially pregnant midge, its literally a fact of life and in my opinion quite a good way to explain the concept of pregnancy to kids without giving too much detail.
My daughter is now 24 and I swear we had to buy at least 4-5 Midges when she was little. She ALWAYS lost the damned baby. We went to see the movie and reminisced over her love of the Midge doll.
I had the pregnant Midge doll & I remember I loved it.. it’s kinda wild to see so many people were against it, my family never complained & plus I’m 30 now and still never had a child 😂
I had Midge too, loved her, and never knew she had so many hating her. Also, I too still don't have kids 27. So idk what they thought we were thinking.
I had Midge and have three children
@@myninjacatsnowflakesame here & I’m 28
@@annabeauty7084 🤣 are you saying Midge was the reason? I don’t understand your comment lmao
I bought my daughter the pregnant Midge doll...and her husband Allan, kid Ryan and the grandparents too. The only thing that bothered me about Midge was that the baby came out through a panel in her belly. I made sure my daughter knew that our bellies don't just have a flap that babies come out of. Oh and I had Growing up Skipper as a kid...if you left Skipper as a teen for too long, her breasts stayed when you made her 8 again.
I love all these dolls. I did have the Growing Up Skipper and she was one of my favourites. I cranked that arm so many times. At least these iterations of Barbie were creative and helped with play time scenarios. Puberty, babies and pets are wholesome things that kids look forward to role playing with when they're in the Barbie stage. Nothing wrong with any of it. People always find something to complain about. It's not like they were rolling out Fifty Shades Barbie and Prison Time Ken.
AHAH Those seem fun to have! They could make a version of those for adults. It's great for collectors. I'd buy them!🙋♀
Pregnant Midge was one of my fav Barbies. I didn’t care about the belly or baby. I threw em away. I thought her hair & freckles made her more beautiful & interesting than the basic Barbies I had at the time.
most of these really had small minded people crying wolf resulting in discontinuing the "weird" barbie dolls
Growing up skipper taught girls what their mom didnt want to deal with and couldn't say
A few of my friends have told me their mothers refused to buy them a Barbie. It made them feel “less than” by their friends and were teased for not having a Barbie. It’s been 50 years and they still feel bitter about it because they were left out. That’s the worst feeling at all for a kid.!
I honestly don't get the hate the Pregnant Midge doll got. It was my favorite Barbie to play with since I was the type of little girl that liked to play "Mommy", and Midge was perfect for that. To each their own, I guess 🤔
I look at it differently than some people. The Pregnant Midge doll and overall Happy Family line is showcasing Midge’s milestones and not following in the footsteps of her famous friend. While Barbie is continuing to build her resume with a plethora of careers, Midge is experiencing significant changes in her life such as tying the knot and starting a family. Critics are neglecting the fact that Midge actually did get married back in the nineties and that in the Happy Family line of dolls, she is a married adult and instead of acknowledging that, they’re deeming her as an "unwed teenage mother”. Although the pregnant Midge doll and the Happy Family line came out in the early aughts way before I even existed and I was born in ‘06 and if I was ever born in that time period that the Happy Family line came out, my mother would have no problem buying me that doll at all. Like Growing Up Skipper, Pregnant Midge isn’t that deep because these dolls are teaching children and generally young girls that puberty and pregnancy are a part of life and that we can’t eliminate those things out of the equation because it happens to everyone 💯
There were people who thought it was glorifying out-of-wedlock pregnancy because they didn’t realize she was part of a play set and others who thought it out unfair pressure on girls to become a mommy instead of having a career.
@@niabelizaire3596 Exactly!! I'm a Biologist. For me Having the Growing up Skipper or Pregnant Midge Dolls would have encouraged the sciences in me from a young age. Heck I probably would have even take all my dolls from baby to adult to line up the human growth cycle and Pregnant midge would be the focal point
@@niabelizaire3596 people are thinking way too deep about a toy... They are giving a lot of context to the life of a doll. Kids don't care about all that story behind the characters, they just care about playing with the toys. I didn't even know that there were several characters portrayed in the Barbie collection. As an 80's kid, for me, it was always Barbie and Ken having different lives in every toy, as if in alternated universes.🤷♀ As for the pregnant Barbie, it seems a lot of fun to play with it. Even today, I'd like to have that one.
I had the original Midge in the early 60s. She was adorable. Barbie’s best friend with auburn hair in a flip style with bangs and sweet freckles. A refreshing change from Barbie. No baby.
I loved the pooping dog one when I was little, it was so much fun being able to feed her. I also probably would have loved the pregnant dog, shaving ken, ageing up, and midge ones. Young me loved creating slice-of-life stories with barbie dolls.
I had the newborn puppy set 🥲
There’s a current different pooping dog one I saw today at the store, so if you need to relive your childhood, you can! 😂
Plus the dog Barbie teaches kids to clean up after their own pet
And the pink kitty litter from the peeing pet line
@GentlethemJoey omg I also has the pooping one 😭
The cool shavin’ Ken was my favorite Ken doll I think those particular Barbies that looked like something from hot topic looked so cool
I loved my Midge doll she was one of my favorites. As a child I was curious with pregnancy and babies thought it was interesting. Midge was a great tool to explore that through play. Parents were uncomfortable because they were afraid it would lead to an uncomfortable conversation that they didn’t want to have with their children. Which is apart of life and they blamed on a toy company that obviously did a lot of research on the matter that is appropriate for children.
I have a Growing Up Skipper in near mint condition. She still works and her clothing is still very clean. My mother bought her for me in 1975 when I was 11 years old.
Glad you kept yours. I wish I still had mines.
I bet she’s worth a lot now.
I wish that they'd given Midge more to do in the movie, especially since I love Emerald Fennell. Instead, she just hung around, and didn't even get to speak, from what I remember.
The narrator basically dismissed her as another discontinued Barbie doll. I also noticed that Christie, Teresa and Kiara were omitted from the film given how much they stood by her side over the years. However, Christie was included in the ending credits. Nonetheless, the film was still beautiful 🩷🎥
Hey… Gotta leave something for the sequels, I guess. 🤷🏻♀️
In the 60’s - 80’s Barbie also had a friend named PJ. And the precursor to pregnant Midge was The Heart Family in the 80’s. They were Barbie’s married friends with a son and a daughter. In the original set the kids were twins, but there were later editions where Mom (they were never given first names) was “pregnant” and came with a maternity outfit that converted to a post-maternity outfit after she “gave birth” to the included newborn.
Interestingly, Ken's first foray into facial hair was 1973 Mod Hair Ken. He came with a sheet of flocked facial hair pieces that could be applied to his face. The adhesive was supposed to be reuseable, and the pieces included sideburns, moustaches, and a goatee. This concept was reused in 1976 for The Now Look Ken. These Ken dolls were paired with the Quick Curl and Deluxe Quick Curl lines of Barbie dolls, respectively. Needless to say those flocked stickers were not really a great concept, and 1980 Sport 'N Shave Ken was the next evolution of the idea. Instead of stickers, he came with a brown marker, and the doll's owner could draw facial hair on the doll that could be 'shaved' with water and foam 'razors'.
I have a Mod Hair Ken. It's in very good condition.
I had the Mod Hair Ken. I think that his beards ended up all over my brother's little people airport.
I still have my Mod Hair Ken but unfortunately his "facial hair" ended up all over my Barbie's Camper. (Barbie had had a busy weekend)@@bun04y
I had mod hair Ken. The sticky pieces weren't really reusable.
I had the Barbie and Tanner set when it first came out. I really loved playing with that doll set because it was one of the things that taught how to be a responsible owner.
The way Will Ferrel screams at the sight of Midge in the Barbie movie is hilarious 😂
I had the whole set for Midge and loved her, seeing her in the Barbie movie I was so excited. I didn't know so many parents hated her. Idk what they thought we were thinking as kids.
People complained that it glamorized pregnancy out of wedlock. Mattel even had to make a statement to point out that she was married and her husband and son were sold as part of that line. They did attempt to fix it by adding a cut out of them next to her in her box but they still ended up discontinuing the line due to people still complaining. I thought it was so ridiculous. It made no sense.
I still have pregnant Midge with baby and a ton of adorable tiny accessories. My husband got her for me when I got pregnant for the first time. I guess that would make him Allan, haha. It was so clear on the box and on the store shelves that Midge and Allan were married and there was a whole family, even grandparents. My first Barbie was ballerina Barbie and I loved her so much. I wanted to be a ballerina very much, and she inspired me. My sister had hairstyle Barbie. You could cut her hair and then pull more out. She came with a hair dryer, curling iron, and all the hair accessories. I was jealous, but not when she eventually ran out of hair and went bald. We also had a fake "barbie" who was very ugly. She was thick so she didn't fit the regular clothes, her limbs didn't bend, and her hair was dark and poufy. Sadly, she didn't get much attention once we got our "real" ones. My daughters had the roller skating Barbie from the movie, a hand-me-down from their cousins.
As a seventeen year old girl that’s struggled with math all of her life, Barbie is math. Math class really is tough 🤦🏾♀️
* Barbie is right *
Absolutely! In school, I felt like something was wrong with me because my mom said math was "so easy" and I just had the hardest time with it! Hearing Barbie say math is tough might have made me feel more normal and better about it 🩷
@@samanthavonteese333right? Like I get what they're trying to say and that it seems like it's a lot harder to be taken seriously in the field of STEM if you're a woman, but some girls legitimately _do_ find math to be difficult and it should be okay for them to express that
@ricochet9288 Exactly! We’re not trying to make math more difficult than it is, some of us have trouble comprehending, solving and retaining these complex mathematical concepts. Math isn’t for everyone. I know a lot of girls and women that find math hard and I know a lot of girls and women who are mathematicians. I’m not good at math and my mother isn’t good at math either. So I don’t think the Teen Talk Barbie is being stereotypical. Math is an essential yet difficult subject to learn, especially for me. I just think that parents are being overly sensitive and can’t handle the truth about it.
@@niabelizaire3596 hard agree. Heck, I used to have meltdowns basically every day over math when I was younger and I still get stressed out from it really easily, so if one of my favorite fictional characters would've expressed that they also found math difficult, I would've felt more validated instead of like I was an idiot for not understanding it
The idea for Barbie was based on a German adult comic strip about a saucy dominatrix named Bild Lily. A doll was made and sold in adult novelty shops. A wife of one of the partners of Mattel saw the comic strip and doll, realized that girls were making their baby doll act like grown ups and presented the idea to Mattel. It was an uphill battle, with minimal production. This is why the first year dolls are so collectable and expensive. Mattel bought the rights to Lily, didn't really change her look and Barbara Millicent was born as a teenager.
Get your facts straight 🙄🙄🙄 Lily was NOT a dominatrix nor was she scandalous. That's what has been pushed by men for ages
@@abi_cat28
I have seen the cartoons of Lily in spike heels, garter belt and seamed stockings. She became a doll and sold them in adult stores as a novelty .This is the doll that the CEOs wife bought and took to Mattel. Find a picture of your comic. Mattel even kept the original hairdo.
@danielclaeys7598 while she WAS sold in adult shops, she was not a dominatrix. The debate about her and Barbie is definitely interesting, but put some respect on Barbie and Lily's name smh
@@abi_cat28
You can shake your head until it spins off. It doesn't change the facts concerning the origins of the doll. I'd bet money that there're some Disney story origins that you would not like either.
@@danielclaeys7598 I never said Barbie did not originate from Lily. Learn to read and do ACTUAL research before being a know-it-all
Talk about how small minded and crystal people were/are (nowadays is worse). I'm 25 and i used to have almost all of these dolls (they were mostly gifted) and they never influenced me to anything.
My favorite one is( and always will be) the Midge doll, 20 years later she's still with me , with all of her parts and the baby XDDD.
While I can understand being concerned that some things portray Women as unintelligent, I don’t think mentioning that Math is a little harder to work through for some is that bad.
Math just is tough for some people.
I had a Kelly doll (Barbie’s little sister) that had chicken pox and you could use water to make the spots disappear. It was by far the strangest toy I ever had growing up
Omg the bearded Ken would have always been bearded for me. He’s so handsome with his beard for a doll! 😂
I had Midge growing up and honestly I remember playing with her quite a bit. I loved that she had a baby, but I don’t think it needed the whole stomach thing, it was kinda weird when your barbie gives birth then you have a stomach lying around 😅
Does anyone remember Birthday Party Barbie? She was designed to blow out her own candles but her lips looked prepared to do...something else. My coworkers referred to her as "BJ Barbie"
I've just had a look on it and indeed she seems to blow something else 😂😂
Lol oh sh*t 🤣🤣
@@akonitdelux I searched it up too, still a cute doll tho 🤣🤣💗
That’s fair feedback but again, the real problem in most of these is the fact that adults are giving feedback based on their adult minds instead of looking at all of these dolls from the perspective of a child. Nearly anything can be turned into something “dirty” when we look at it from our adult perspectives. Kids minds won’t go there unless they have been taught those things somewhere & that’s a sign of a bigger problem going on. Adults are always judging kids & their toys from adult perspectives.
@9:05 LOL!😂 I never knew they made a Barbie doll for a character in one of my favorite movies " The Birds"! Nostalgic! 😊
I had all these dolls with the exception of talking teen and the very strange Skipper doll! I loved the pregnant Barbie doll! I have yet to see the movie, but I am so excited! 😊😊
I saw an ad for The Birds Barbie in Biglots as a kid and it never left my mind. I finally bought one this year and it's like an itch in my brain has finally been scratched. I also ended up getting a Rosie O'Donnell Barbie too as my sister and I had wanted one since kids.
The fuss over the pregnant Midge was more about the lack of being able to see a wedding ring on the doll's finger. Some were concerned it would sanction teen pregnancy. What it really showed was, people don't read/pay attention before they act since the back of the box had pictures of Midge and Alan's wedding and their older child, Ryan. Mattel released several dolls in the bridal party including a six dolls set with Midge, Alan, Barbie, Ken, Kelly (renamed Stacie in that size and Kelly became the name of the toddler sister), and Todd (a reuse of the name of Tutti's twin) about 1990.
My names Kelly and I remember the Kelly dolls and wondered what happened to them
Yup. They eventually released a Midge with a painted on wedding ring. But since she was still available to buy on her own, snowflakes still had a fit.
which is weird@@Terahnee
peopel are offended by everything now you have to walk on eggshells@@Terahnee
I really wanted the pregnant doll when I was younger 😂
I’m kind of sad to learn they were discontinued for such ridiculous reasons
That Tattoo Barbie is so cool! Being able to give your friends a sticker tattoo is super nice
I had Barbie and Tanner. There’s nothing creepy about them. Dogs poop, in real life, and you have to clean up after them. At least it wasn’t with a plastic bag!
The issue wasn't the poop, it was the fact that the magnet in the pooper scooper could come loose and become a choking hazard.
I still have my shave and fun Ken. I think he was my favorite out of all of my Ken dolls. Also, these commercials made me miss being a kid. I loved playing with my Barbies.
“B who you wanna be. B-a-r-b-i-e!” 💞🎀👠
Well, I just had an audio flash back, lol.
@ariadnefrolich7243 I recently discovered the song a week or two ago lol and I dig the song. It’s catchy 🩷🎼
"🎶🎶🎶I'm a Barbie girl
In a Barbie world
Life in plastic
It's fantastic..."🎶🎶🎶 What a great top Ms Mojo, have a happy thursday afternoon and i hope i see you soon for more. Greetings from Colombia.
I had the pregnant Midge doll. It really wasn’t that wild. Kinda cool actually, especially since I was a preteen and I had my own curiosities
Still mad they didn’t include shave and play barbie…
I read this comment before, but I will paraphrase. I think teen talk barbie saying math class is tough isn't a bad thing as it shows even though barbie is depicted as perfect, and saying the phrase "I love school don't you" it shows that barbie still has some problems and flaws making her more human. Like who doesn't struggle with math.
The only take away I get from this video is that parents ruin EVERYTHING 😂😂
the way my neighbors leave their dog sh!t all over the SIDEWALKS makes me wish they had a poop and scoop barbie.
I still want to complete the Happy Family set (or at least get the grandparents). I hate how uptight people were with that line (and as much as I love the Barbie movie, they got the throwaway line about Midge wrong; she still had dolls made of her after that. The line was discontinued, but she wasn't.)
My friend had a pregnancy midge. It lead to a weird conversation where she said it was disgusting babies are born naked, and I tried to figure out how she thought clothes should be made in a mommy belly
4:53 I think I had that Barbie set.
I can’t believe a Sugar Daddy Ken existed 🤣🤣🤣 that should be # 1
Why? Barbie always had a career. She didn’t need a sugar daddy.
@@missmayflowerthe sugar daddy Ken meant this older Ken doll had a dog named sugar. It was a double meaning joke for the adults 😂
@Catmom2005 NO ( sadly ) I'm sure they meant for it to only have one meaning ~ the meaning adults know . They only cleaned up the description of THAT Ken doll ( to have the dog's name be sugar & he be it's " daddy " ) for the movie hoping people would forget they made a SERIOUSLY WRONG business decision that made them look like paedophiles . It innocently an attempt at getting all adults to buy Barbie dolls for themselves , not realising less than 1% of adults will ever make such purchases ~ wealthy adults ( mostly men , collector items hobbyists ) . ♑️✍️🇸🇯🇦🇺
@@thegreenjellybean77*
I had a pregnant Barbie when I was growing up. She was one of my favourites. The kissing Barbie is hilarious too, I never owned one but I was absolutely making Barbie kiss. The complaint the public had there is nonsensical.
My daughter had Barbie and Tanner ( the pooping dog). She also had pregnant Midge. She loved them!
Not sure that I had the Barbie from the Barbie & Tanner set but I still have Tanner! I always thought it was fun using the magnetic scooper to pick up the “mess”
so a dog that eats its own shit, so lifelike! :P
I actually loved playing with pregnant Midge
I always thought the pooping dog was hilarious. I wanted it
I once found a collectable isolation barbie complete with face mask, gown, and gloves. It was the first barbie above the age of about 8 that I wanted.
The only one I found to be “disturbing” was the first slumber party doll with the weight loss book. The rest of these, are great ways to teach kids things. The skipper doll is a great way to show puberty in young girls, the dog mom dolls are a great way to teach responsibility with pets, the midge doll is a great way to teach about babies, how to handle them etc.
honestly it seems to me that parents are way overhyping the concern for this.
Barbie will always be my icon ❤
I had a Barbie and Tanner set I kept the wand to grab small metal objects in tiny corners for a while
Wow! The Birds Barbie is cool! Love it!
Im sorry, but I just don't really see an issue with any of these dolls. If people are THAT concerned about them, maybe those people need to look into why they have such an issue.
I loved playing with the Happy Family line! I am so sad that they took it away and they should bring it back! And Midge did get married in the 90’s I believe and Barbie is not a teenager anymore so obviously Midge isn’t either! 🙄
Okay, what is so bad about the sentence "Math class is tough"? That's true for many people. It definately was for me.
I ADORED my tanner puppy poop set and played with it literally every day, and I loved my Midge and newborn set too😅
Midge wasn't weird, women have babies. The kissing barbie wasn't weird - people weren't as soft as they are now.
Pregnant Midge was my FAV. I loved her. I had 3 and like 8 babies 😂
That Tippi Hedren doll is amazing!
I have Kissing Barbie, Pregnant Midge (people forget she’s married) and Teen Talk Barbie in my Barbie collection.
I loved my Midge doll. I don’t understand people’s problem with it
The slumber party one is actually problematic.. a toy book saying how to loose weight don’t eat … yep that is a problem
love how all the Barbies are in the movie ❤
#8 did exist! I thought it was a fever dream. 😆
I had cool Shaving Ken! 😂 Completely forgot about that! I loved his stripey hoodie
I wish a magnetic pooper was real.
*gazes out at 2 giant dogs in backyard* 😢
Wait. Allen is the father of Midge’s baby?
I'm not going to lie. I want the Birds Barbie.
I think the alfred hitchcock's the birds barbie doll really cool
Yessss AAUW!!! My grandma was a leader in that organization and they are doing good things. 💜
The pregnant Midge controversy was not really about her age initially. All anyone was taking about when she came out was that she did not have a ring on her finger. The recalled those ones and re- released her with a wedding ring. It being about her age is new to me.
I can see the Barbie movie being nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design 🩷🏆👗👠
And set design!
@bluegreen123 That too! 🩷
I remember pregnant barbie and really found it fun!
I had the Barbie & the newborn pups 🥲
I had the prego Midge doll. I don't see the issue with it, nothing wrong or shameful about pregnancy.
My daughter had midge she loved it, she made up all sorts of stories, she still has the little dog.
Kissing barbie lipstick is now produced by Trixie cosmetics
Ngl, I would actually buy that💄💋💞
3 words: Earring Magic Ken
I had the Midge Doll growing up. She was my favorite one of my dozen or so Barbie dolls.
I remember when the tattoo Barbie came out, my mom was so pissed because I was already starting to talk about wanting tattoos (I was 14 at the time) but the doll ended up reigniting my love for Barbie.
By the way, got my first tattoo on my 22nd birthday :)
"The Birds" Barbie is my absolute favorite!
Pretty sure there were other odd Barbie things, hope for an eventual part 2 please
9:23 that should be said in the beginning!!! Not all Barbie dolls are playline!!!!
Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy is one of my all time favorite episodes of The Simpsons!
I find all of them creative and interesting
1:50 omg I had this doll
I see nothing wrong with kissing Barbie- as in WHY is it “outlandish” on this list here?
Creative, yes!!
(honestly, I don’t even think it’s THAT creative… I mean, the doll is PERFECT BARBIE, complete with perfect lips & red lipstick.)
Omg I remember having the shaving ken doll he was one of my favorites!