You’ve probably heard of Burkha Barbie by now, but I am ashamed to admit my first thought was does she come with a rusty razor blade? Or has that been taken care of already?
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Counting Cats in Zanzibar is no fan of NuLabour politicians and, in excoriating them, writes one of the finest lines to be seen on any blog, anywhere
Go read these fellows if you enjoy fine word craft done well, they write like brilliant demons.
Counting Cats (CC) was taken to task by several other commenters for being too squeamish and perhaps even morally neutral about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys here. While I don't share CC's reaction to the video, I rejoice in his (her?) existence. What kind of a world would it be if people like CC didn't exist or if they had to hide their views? Who knows, we might all be living in something akin to Somalia. ... CC's civilized response is precisely why our military is a force for good in the world.
I love that.
Counting Cats in Zanzibar (great name, great blog)
That really does articulate the thing in a weirdly clear way to me.
I love this blog. Best damn read you can get anywhere.
http://www.countingcats.com/?p=5393&cpage=1#comment-13527
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Comment fropm linked article…
“Will burka barbie not be allowed out of the toybox without a chaperone if action man is in the room? what happens if a brother and sister both want to play with their dolls at the same time?”
Well, she’ll be safe from GI Joe who is currently in Iraq raping and pillaging I am led to believe.
Anyway for Barbie and Ken, Action Man and Cindy etc love is as they say, difficult without genitals. You can get anatomically correct dolls but you have to be either a determined prevert of the first water or go into The Early Learning Centre and display evidence that you have subscribed to both the Guardian and the Indy for at least three years. You will also be asked to quote both Toynbee and Hari chapter and verse.
Correct me if I’m wrong here but Barbie is 11″ of politicised dolly so I could believe anything about her…
Barbie is noted for her unusal figure. Feminazis frequently like to scale her up and shriek about the results but I’m sure I read somewhere that basically if you made a doll that looked like that mythical beast “The real woman” it would look wrong. It’s to do with scaling…
If any reader knows anything about that then get in touch!
Oo!