>>37668When I was a kid, I didn't like them because they're girly. I also avoided anything pink and glittery. Girly things were always being made fun of or shamed by my brother and father and I didn't want to be seen with something so embarassing.
There are reasons to not like super slim long mega-consumerist women in permanent make-up plastic dolls produced in sweatshops and all that, but when I see them, I feel a kind of resentment for my immediate family for robbing me of that simple joy regardless… It was probably for the best with barbie specifically tbf, but I wish my family had had more woke reasoning than "woman bad".
…but thinking of it, I wasn't that much of a fan of barbie for other (albeit perhaps adjacenty) reasons too. The ads were always about her going shopping, dressing up and doing her hair and it was just more boring than everything Playmobil and Lego was doing.
If I were to buy dolls for a child now, I'd probably go for smaller dolls that fit in a doll house. Barbies are a bit too big for regular doll houses and too hard, small and adult-looking to hug like baby dolls and plushs. They look like you have to prop them up if you put them in a doll house and don't want them to topple over.
