Lawmaker Wants To Outlaw Barbies

Just an idiot lawmaker who wants to be noticed by someone. Any law like this would be quickly shot down for constitutional reasons. Freedom of speach, 1st Amendment. He knows this. He just wants to make a fuss so someone will listen to him. He just needs the attention.

I really don’t know. I had Barbies growing up, and I turned out fine. For young kids, dolls are great because they are symbolic play, and symbolic play is a much higher mental concept than just stacking blocks. It’s older girls, maybe 7-12, that dolls like Bratz and Barbies can be harmful to. 7-12 year olds are beginning to develop self esteem and self image, and having a perfect looking barbie doll probably won’t help.

Wrestling made me self-conscience about my weight/body type as a child, can we make it illegal too. Oh, and He-man, GI joe, TMNT.

I turned to the Simpsons for a look at real Americans.

Every girl no matter what she plays with will have some sort of self esteem issue. Its the way of life and puberty. Not having Barbie isnt going to change that. Now those Bratz dolls are the devil. Ban those.

Oh my god, whatever. I grew up with Doctor Barbie.

A little of column A…a little of column B. Outlawing them is ridiculous although I don’t think I’ll b buying them for my daughter(s).

I wonder how he selected his wife, if indeed he is of that persuasion.

I’d be more concerned about Bratz, check out this video about them
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/bratz_dolls_may_give_young_girls

Seriously though, little girls are exposed to far worse representations of women in the Bible than anything Barbie could possibly do. I’d hide the bible before i took away Barbie.

Kev, the Bible? For real? Sigh…

As for this Democrat… Oh man, just another invasion of the nanny state. The government keeps trying to tell us what’s good for us… smoking bans in privately owned bars / restaurants, trans fats bans, fast food restaurant location restrictions, and now this.

People said Bush was an enemy of civil liberties – poppycock, I say! The most insidious attack on our civil liberties is going to come disguised as people “looking out for the safety and interest of the public!” And we want to let these people run our health care system?

Perhaps we can outlaw lawmakers from West Virginia–at least those with the mental acuity of a Barbie doll.

SeyrWeyr… I think this idiot is just doing this because it’s Barbie’s fiftieth anniversary. I guess when the Bratz dolls become more iconic like Barbie is, then people will attack them too.

That or they’ve never heard of Bratz dolls in West Virginia…

While I don’t agree that Barbie is the cause of all this, I do agree that young kids today focus WAY too much on the way they look.

It’s said that instead of giving money to our schools and increasing the pay of teachers we are bailing out greedy companies that can’t manage their money. It’s also sad that instead of doing something truly helpful for our education system, lawmakers come up with these useless kinds of ideas to help kids.

And the man’s statement has had exactly the effect he wanted…we’re all bitching about him around the water cooler.

It’s like an annoying TV ad. You can’t figure out why they don’t realise that it sucks, but you’re still talking about it.

It’s good for us Democrats to remember that the Republicans haven’t corralled all the dumbasses. We still have a few of our own.

With all the problems West Virgina has (poverty, low education, poor health, high rate of infancy death, bad economy, etc.) this moron is focusing on Barbie. He should be run out of the state.

Let’s ban Paris Hilton, instead.

“teenage mutant ninja turtles made you self conscience of your body?? dude i’m not trying to offend here but WTF do you look like when turtles make you feel bad about how you look?!”

Seriously, Shredder was ripped. I’m sure there might have been some girls who thought all women look like April O’neil.

Like many little girls in the Western world, i had lots of Barbies when i was young. My mother, a single parent, was certainly against stereotypes and is a feminist, but i’m glad she let me play with the dolls. When children are very little, they do not make the connection between dolls and the fact that they’re supposed to represent real people. Yes, they understand that they’re human figures, but do not make any meaningful associations apart from that. (This is why “show me on the doll where the bad man touched you” is no longer accepted as testimony in court). I enjoyed my Barbies. They are well-made and interesting to play with. By the time girls are old enough to make the kinds of associations adults do, they are probably already bored with their dolls.

I think he’s absolutely right.

This num nuts jackass…makes all West Virginians just shake their heads…There is no “evidence” whatsoever that Barbie is a danger to American femininity. My beautiful wife is a high school principal, my daughter is a medical lab technologist, Barbies are all over the place here at my home…my beautiful grand daughter has the electric powered jeep with working FM radio, we have the horse farm, the movies…cool stuff!

I am a radio disc jockey, (morning mouth)..and have 90 hours in clinical psychology graduate school finished…I want to see this jackass’s fricking DATA! No damned research design…verbal masturbater! I hate this crap that demeans our otherwise pretty good legislature…and our beautiful state where we DO often wear Allen Edmonds shoes…and no, I did not marry my cousin although she IS a knockout…LOL

God please spare us from the jackasses! I did read a post in the Charleston Gazette that this Delegate, was the owner of a bar called JJ’s in Madison, West Virginis…I’m checking it out, I think it was some sort of bar that did not enhance the value of women as it’s stellar mission…I’m checking it out…would not surprise me at all if it’s a gentlemen’s bar…LOL

I don’t know for sure, I’m still checking…if I find out it’s true, I’m busting him! Citizen’s arrest! LOL