New Barbies

You may not know it, but now there's a black Barbie: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/21/black.barbies.irpt/index.html?iref=werecommend. Some hand wringing going on and then there's the always eternal cry from some that Barbie gives girls an unrealistic body image problem. I think that's reaching but what the hell do I know. Fortunately, I'm out of the Barbie business, but there was a time when our house had Barbies strewn all over the place. If you have daughters, you'll spend more than a few hours dressing Barbie--for some reason, the girls always remove Barbie's clothes and you have naked Barbies lying around everywhere, sometimes on top of one another in some hot, girl on girl action. Dressing them is no easy trick; I could never figure out how to get a lot of stuff back on to Barbie. Sometimes, I'd get her blouse on her bottom or her skirt over her top section and it was always somewhat confusing to figure it all out. Also, you'd become distracted with Barbie's obvious physical features and how they apply to the real life missus down the hall and so forth before snapping out of your man-daze and getting your head back into the game. Hard to concentrate sometimes.