Declaration against toys
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- lowimpakt0
It actually does throw up many interesting questions about breeding stereotypes and representation.
I know Saudi Arabia is more hardline than elsewhere in the Arab world but its not all like that. A good friend of mine just came back from the middle East. She spent many months there teaching in schools. She came back with a very different view of the Arab treatment of women. This is difficult to explain with my predisposition on the issue. She tried to explain that the women are in fact so revered that they are treated in a special ways - That their beauty is so great but it is kept for the husband. I found it hard to get over my western interpretation of repression etc but could see her point after a while. Often in the home the woman wears other kinds of clothes and exposes skin etc. but then chooses to wear the hajib or whatever outside. She then explained how we have forms of 'repression' in expectations of women and how they should look. this leads onto the doll thing...
Regarding the Barbie doll is it good to have young girls form a self representation to a very very skinny bimbo doll. Some say no wonder America has sooo much plastic surgery even on young kids and the huge crisis of representation that leads to eating disorders etc. The doll may seems harmless but put into the wider conext it means more than what it is.
This could get very academic and convoluted.......
- pr20
Thinking tah our way of life and our "freedom" is better then theirs is a leftover from... i think that's what people used to think since the begining of civilization. It's getting dangerous only when one side decides to change the other (as we did in Iraq) thinking that our valus will prevail in another culture.
- Bio0
it is unhealthy when the women are stoned to death for showing the skin of their forearm.
also, barbi dolls might set an unhealthy image for our little gilrs, but i cant think of any toy whos measurements are based on reality. and by the same standards, arent superhero action figures creating unhealthy and unreachable standards for little boys? rippling 6 packs and 0% body fat and a full head of hair at 30?
modern society is in a temporary downward spiral of moral decay, but religion is not the answer for that. if anything, it makes the situation worse with judgemental holier than thou attitudes.
it is all a moot point anyway. i dont expect to change lives with my ignorant opinions. i just like the sound of my own fingers typing.i am rambling, so i am just gonna get my ass back to work. deadlines are here. =)
- Bio0
hoky shit, did i just type all of that out?
- jox0
couldn't agree more bio!
- ants0
it could be said about religion, but what about faith?
- pixellove0
Wows. thats stupid.
- unknown0
Big deal. More power to them. Perfectly fine for a religious society like that to ban things they feel do not go with their beliefs. They have that right.
I think it's sick that stuff like this way works it's way into a society whose religious and moral ideals condemn such things.
Look at Iraq now, kids buying Eminem and 50 Cent cds.All I'm saying is, sometimes people have no respect for another culture's moral values and religion. Too much Western influence sometimes on people whose lives are better off without that junk.
- pugdawg0
You should move there mg33. It is such a great society they LOVE whitey over there.
- pr20
pugdawg: that's areally ignorant comment. He was only trying to say that some places might not be setup the way we want to think.
If Iraq, for instance, was ready for democracy they would get it long time ago without help of other countries. Aparently there was something that prevented that move. Same with the toys, just because you feel that it's OK for little girls to play with Barbie doesn't mean that everyone else shoul think that way. For that matter, thinking thst makes you as much fundamentalist as they are.
