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Aibu to be upset at barbie?

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thatcrookedsmile · 14/04/2023 15:19

My daughter has just come in crying from yet another broken barbie.

This is because companies purposely make their products inferior to their older designs in order to ensure their product breaks or doesn't last. It's called planned obsolescence and its a bloody joke! when I was a child (90s-2000s) we used to be able to pop a barbie head back on. Now we can't because they've purposely changed the design to stop that, so you have to buy a replacement.

Well they've lost themselves a customer, after After years of buying barbie for my children and for other children as they are a good, sturdy toy, I'll have to stop. Despite her dirty face this barbie is only a couple of weeks old and the 5th since the last birthday (1.5 years ago) to snap, only to be binned.

I'm really annoyed, I've sent my first angry email.

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GeraltsBathtub · 15/04/2023 19:47

L3ThirtySeven · 14/04/2023 22:37

Me too. But then my Barbies didn’t play spa day or housewife with Ken.
Some of my more imaginative games were a bit odd, like the time Barbarella Barbie fought off the invasion of alien Haribo gummy bears, saving the planet. I had made her a fighter jet with loo roll insides and tin foil.

But even if you had played spa or housewife, it wouldn’t make you any less of a feminist. You can be feminine and a feminist!

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