{"id":2020,"date":"2005-12-21T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/21\/researchers-find-widespread-barbie-mutilation\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T16:49:12","slug":"researchers-find-widespread-barbie-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find widespread Barbie mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2005\/12\/19\/D8EJGO4G3.html\">A.P. article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">LONDON &#8211; Barbie, beware. The iconic plastic doll is often mutilated at the hands of young girls, according to research published Monday by British academics. &#8220;The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a &#8216;cool&#8217; activity,&#8221; said Agnes Nairn, one of the University of Bath researchers. &#8220;The types of mutilation are varied and creative, and range from removing the hair to decapitation, burning, breaking and even microwaving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the university&#8217;s marketing and psychology departments questioned 100 children about their attitudes to a range of products as part of a study on branding. They found Barbie provoked the strongest reaction, with youngsters reporting &#8220;rejection, hatred and violence,&#8221; Nairn said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The meaning of &#8216;Barbie&#8217; went beyond an expressed antipathy; actual physical violence and torture towards the doll was repeatedly reported, quite gleefully, across age, school and gender,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I find it interesting that Barbie is apparently hated and mutilated more often than other toys (including, one presumes, other female dolls). And I have to admit, I love the idea of gleeful little girls microwaving Barbies to death.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Be sure to read <a href=\"http:\/\/capitalismbad.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/destroying-barbie.html\">this post on Capitalism Bad; Tree Pretty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an A.P. article: LONDON &#8211; Barbie, beware. The iconic plastic doll is often mutilated at the hands of young girls, according to research published Monday by British academics. &#8220;The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}