Barbie-Q and Strip

MONDO BARBIE: BARBIE-Q

1. “Only Ken’s invisible, right? Because we don’t have money for a stupid-looking boy doll when we’d both rather ask for a new Barbie outfit next Christmas. We have to make do with your mean-eyed Barbie and my bubblehead Barbie and our one outfit apiece not including the sock dress.”

This quote spoke to me because the little girls can’t afford more dolls or things for their dolls but they are happy anyway. They know that they can ask for certain extras at Christmas, but they have to decide which toys are more important because they can’t get them all. It’s neat that the girls use their imagination that their Ken doll is invisible because they would rather ask for presents that can be used for Barbie, such as new outfits. And they make their own creative clothes for the dolls because they only have two outfits together. Things like this remind me how creative young kids can be and that they are happy with anything they can make. They don’t ever sound angry, but just hopeful for what they can do with their dolls.

2. “On the outside you and me skipping and humming but on the inside we are doing loopity-loops and pirouetting.”

This is similar to my thoughts about the girls being creative with their dolls. They have excitement for the smallest things in life. Since they can’t afford to buy new Barbies, they find discount Barbies from a toy store fire and make do with what they can afford. They were so excited about their burnt, smoke smelling Barbies that they were thrilled inside, but didn’t want to show it so walked casually as they found their new toys.

Body Outlaws: Strip

1. “When you play the gender game by everyone else’s rules, you can only lose.”

This quote was significant to the reading because it showed the difficulty of defining gender. There is a gender game that society follows with certain norms and roles, but really the people that don’t feel as if they fit into one gender or the other end up losing. It is hard to say everyone lives either as male or female because that is not true physically or for others emotionally. There is no way of winning in finding how gender suits people because they can feel different than any definition of gender.

2. “No matter which of those hundreds of thousands of different interpretations of the stereotypes of gender or ability I might have to confront, I had stripped naked. I had stripped naked, before women and men, and been seen not as a freak, not as an object, but as a woman, as a person, with a unique and human power.”

This is a powerful quote because it perfectly depicts the story. This person feels uncomfortable in their everyday skin and has to deal with the impressions that people make each time she walks by. She believes that she is either male or female and then is unsure which she fits into. But stripping gave her the confidence to expose her breasts and penis without shame and without feeling like a freak for the first time. And the way she describes it as “unique and human power,” makes it more inspiring to be comfortable with who we are.

 

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