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		<title>By: Lear, Kent, Fool &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Real Life 101: Addendum A</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lear, Kent, Fool &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Real Life 101: Addendum A</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] begin with Barbie. This article Mary Anne Moresco sums up well my reasons for keeping our home a Barbie-free Zone. Some little [...]</description>
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		<title>By: mlr86</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eating disorders rarely have anything to do with dolls. I&#039;m anorexic, and I&#039;m pretty sure that it&#039;s not because of Barbie. Let the children relax and play when they&#039;re young... because, in my experience, stress can lead to a lot of negative things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eating disorders rarely have anything to do with dolls. I&#8217;m anorexic, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that it&#8217;s not because of Barbie. Let the children relax and play when they&#8217;re young&#8230; because, in my experience, stress can lead to a lot of negative things.</p>
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		<title>By: Pro Information Center &#187; Blog Archive &#187; We Hate Barbie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pro Information Center &#187; Blog Archive &#187; We Hate Barbie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Mary Anne Moresco has done our work for us. In a brilliant article at Catholic Exchange, she puts words to the subconscious thoughts that had been troubling us about Barbie &#8212; and [...]</description>
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		<title>By: What you Never Knew About Barbie &#171; Catholic in Japan</title>
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		<dc:creator>What you Never Knew About Barbie &#171; Catholic in Japan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: catholicliving</title>
		<link>http://catholicexchange.com/2009/01/08/115092/comment-page-1/#comment-37357</link>
		<dc:creator>catholicliving</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recall in the early 60&#039;s my grown up sister, estranged from mom, gave me a &quot;Barbie Doll&quot; for Christmas. She had nothing on but a bathing suit. Mom said I could not keep it, and threw it away. I thank mom for doing that. However, later in my teens, when mom was given psych drugs by a doctor, mom said my short skirts were okay, because I had &quot;nice legs.&quot; Obviously, mom gave me a medicated response to immodesty in dress, and I can forgive her for that. It was the &quot;mixed&quot; message, that was wrong. I now take metformin a diabetic drug, and it affects my cognition, and judgment. Now, I know what mom went through. It&#039; not an excuse, but an explanation. My Aunt Pauline, told mom our skirts were too short, but mom defended our immodest attire. How I wish mom cared, enough to have disapplined us. She retreated, and never came back to her mind. That was difficult, having to raise oneself in a household with a Dad who was absent, doing &quot;Dallas,&quot; so to speak, and a mom on psych drugs, and living on the pitiful hand out Dad gave her and us. How me and my 2 other siblings who were living at home, have tried to &quot;grow&quot; up, on our own, making more mistakes, than most people, and learning how to live, dispite our parents mistakes. It is taking a lifetime to undo. 

Mom&#039;s no, in the early 60&#039;s, showed me the courage of her convictions, were more important, than the Anti-Christ Christmas Gift I got from my sister. My older sister, now advocates Dad&#039;s Concubine, and my sibling&#039;s concubines. However, because I am trying to live my Catholicism, she hates me. She has issues with women, as a result of disrepecting mom&#039;s admonitions. God Rest Mom&#039;s Soul. Thanks, Mom, for at least trying to be a &quot;good mom,&quot; when I was little. My teen years, were hell, without your help, but eventually, I turned to God, and I am doing better. You didn&#039;t know you could say &quot;no,&quot; to a doctor. The power of suggestion, is powerful, I know. I forgive you Mom, for your &quot;medical leave&quot; of your senses, when I was 12 onward. We missed you, and we missed having a holy dad and mom in our life. However, you did try before you quit, and I will look to your good examples, and not follow your bad examples, with God&#039;s help.

I needed to say this, publicly. Because, Immodesty in Dress, and parents, being &quot;Dismissive About It,&quot; is disturbing. It sends the message, that Parents love their children, more than they love God. God, has to be #1 in a Parent&#039;s Life. Teaching that to your kids, they will thank you someday, even if they rebell a little bit, and then come back to the faith, you showed them. They will thank God and thank you for being a Godly Parent, when it wasn&#039;t easy to be a Godly Parent. All I can say, is, PERSERVERE in DOING GOOD! It will pay off later, in the dividends, of your Children&#039;s Eternal Salvation. You can then have a big Coming Home Party in Heaven, for All Eternity, because YOU DID THE RIGHT THINGS HERE ON EARTH. May the Peace of Christ be Always with you. Adieu.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recall in the early 60&#8242;s my grown up sister, estranged from mom, gave me a &#8220;Barbie Doll&#8221; for Christmas. She had nothing on but a bathing suit. Mom said I could not keep it, and threw it away. I thank mom for doing that. However, later in my teens, when mom was given psych drugs by a doctor, mom said my short skirts were okay, because I had &#8220;nice legs.&#8221; Obviously, mom gave me a medicated response to immodesty in dress, and I can forgive her for that. It was the &#8220;mixed&#8221; message, that was wrong. I now take metformin a diabetic drug, and it affects my cognition, and judgment. Now, I know what mom went through. It&#8217; not an excuse, but an explanation. My Aunt Pauline, told mom our skirts were too short, but mom defended our immodest attire. How I wish mom cared, enough to have disapplined us. She retreated, and never came back to her mind. That was difficult, having to raise oneself in a household with a Dad who was absent, doing &#8220;Dallas,&#8221; so to speak, and a mom on psych drugs, and living on the pitiful hand out Dad gave her and us. How me and my 2 other siblings who were living at home, have tried to &#8220;grow&#8221; up, on our own, making more mistakes, than most people, and learning how to live, dispite our parents mistakes. It is taking a lifetime to undo. </p>
<p>Mom&#8217;s no, in the early 60&#8242;s, showed me the courage of her convictions, were more important, than the Anti-Christ Christmas Gift I got from my sister. My older sister, now advocates Dad&#8217;s Concubine, and my sibling&#8217;s concubines. However, because I am trying to live my Catholicism, she hates me. She has issues with women, as a result of disrepecting mom&#8217;s admonitions. God Rest Mom&#8217;s Soul. Thanks, Mom, for at least trying to be a &#8220;good mom,&#8221; when I was little. My teen years, were hell, without your help, but eventually, I turned to God, and I am doing better. You didn&#8217;t know you could say &#8220;no,&#8221; to a doctor. The power of suggestion, is powerful, I know. I forgive you Mom, for your &#8220;medical leave&#8221; of your senses, when I was 12 onward. We missed you, and we missed having a holy dad and mom in our life. However, you did try before you quit, and I will look to your good examples, and not follow your bad examples, with God&#8217;s help.</p>
<p>I needed to say this, publicly. Because, Immodesty in Dress, and parents, being &#8220;Dismissive About It,&#8221; is disturbing. It sends the message, that Parents love their children, more than they love God. God, has to be #1 in a Parent&#8217;s Life. Teaching that to your kids, they will thank you someday, even if they rebell a little bit, and then come back to the faith, you showed them. They will thank God and thank you for being a Godly Parent, when it wasn&#8217;t easy to be a Godly Parent. All I can say, is, PERSERVERE in DOING GOOD! It will pay off later, in the dividends, of your Children&#8217;s Eternal Salvation. You can then have a big Coming Home Party in Heaven, for All Eternity, because YOU DID THE RIGHT THINGS HERE ON EARTH. May the Peace of Christ be Always with you. Adieu.</p>
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		<title>By: Jon_in_Charlotte</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jon_in_Charlotte</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up my 7 year old neice replied, &quot;HOT&quot;!

I trust that her response reflects the moral erosion that exists in our present culture. This erosion has to some degree resulted through the acceptance of seemingly harmless toys like the Barbie doll which promote a sense of sexuality.

If a child has been provided a framework of morality learned from his/her parents, through them leading by example, then it provides the child a sheild to deflect subtle attacks of deviance to their fragile psyches. To the child who comes from a loving and moral environment then the doll is just a doll, however, to the child that exists in a fragmented and unstable environment, ripe for fermenting insecurities, the essence of the doll can become distorted and perverted. For the child whose psyche is fractured a doll such as the Barbie doll could become an idol which they strive to become.

To the seven year old girl Barbie is beautiful, happy, and because she&#039;s plastic she is impervious to pain. Today our society is littered with women who have felt compelled to use cosmetic surgery to coat their insecurities for the purpose of allowing themselves to feel beautiful and happy. The danger is that this coating will harden over time to the point where the individual will become impervious to emotional pain because they can&#039;t feel anymore.

This transfiguring phenomenon has come as a result of attacks on the domestic Church, the family home. With divorce comes a torrent of emotional suffering that causes damage to children&#039;s psyches. When a young girl witnesses her Mother suffering emotionally because her Father has left the family home a fear becomes embedded in her psyche of not wanting to suffer the same as her Mother. As the mother deals with her emotional pain she becomes less able to provide emotional support to the child so an emotional void occurs. Normally the mother is the emotional nuturer to the child, however, if the mother is suffering from an emotional crisis then her nuturing becomes self serving out of neccessity and the child&#039;s emotional needs must be served elsewhere. How often has a distraught young girl retreated to her bedroom to find emotional comfort from the pretty doll with the reassuring smile?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up my 7 year old neice replied, &#8220;HOT&#8221;!</p>
<p>I trust that her response reflects the moral erosion that exists in our present culture. This erosion has to some degree resulted through the acceptance of seemingly harmless toys like the Barbie doll which promote a sense of sexuality.</p>
<p>If a child has been provided a framework of morality learned from his/her parents, through them leading by example, then it provides the child a sheild to deflect subtle attacks of deviance to their fragile psyches. To the child who comes from a loving and moral environment then the doll is just a doll, however, to the child that exists in a fragmented and unstable environment, ripe for fermenting insecurities, the essence of the doll can become distorted and perverted. For the child whose psyche is fractured a doll such as the Barbie doll could become an idol which they strive to become.</p>
<p>To the seven year old girl Barbie is beautiful, happy, and because she&#8217;s plastic she is impervious to pain. Today our society is littered with women who have felt compelled to use cosmetic surgery to coat their insecurities for the purpose of allowing themselves to feel beautiful and happy. The danger is that this coating will harden over time to the point where the individual will become impervious to emotional pain because they can&#8217;t feel anymore.</p>
<p>This transfiguring phenomenon has come as a result of attacks on the domestic Church, the family home. With divorce comes a torrent of emotional suffering that causes damage to children&#8217;s psyches. When a young girl witnesses her Mother suffering emotionally because her Father has left the family home a fear becomes embedded in her psyche of not wanting to suffer the same as her Mother. As the mother deals with her emotional pain she becomes less able to provide emotional support to the child so an emotional void occurs. Normally the mother is the emotional nuturer to the child, however, if the mother is suffering from an emotional crisis then her nuturing becomes self serving out of neccessity and the child&#8217;s emotional needs must be served elsewhere. How often has a distraught young girl retreated to her bedroom to find emotional comfort from the pretty doll with the reassuring smile?</p>
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		<title>By: Altered States of Barbiness &#171; Mary Victrix</title>
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		<dc:creator>Altered States of Barbiness &#171; Mary Victrix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to Barbie for fifty years of morally delibilating young girls.  I know, I know.  I am such a stick in the [...]</description>
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		<title>By: What Hath Fifty Years of Barbie Wrought? &#171; Mary&#8217;s Anawim</title>
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		<dc:creator>What Hath Fifty Years of Barbie Wrought? &#171; Mary&#8217;s Anawim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] From Catholic Exchange: [...]</description>
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		<title>By: jmtfh</title>
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		<dc:creator>jmtfh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This from the Telegraph.co.uk on today&#039;s site--

&quot;Jerry Oppenheimer, the author of Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel [a book to be released soon] claims that Jack Ryan, the late designer who popularised the doll, was a &quot;full-blown Seventies-style swinger&quot; with &quot;a manic need for sexual gratification&quot;. 

Ryan, whose wives included Zsa Zsa Gabor, allegedly held orgies at his house in California at which he surrounded himself with voluptuous Barbie doppelgängers, including Gwen Florea, who provided the voice for a line of talking dolls.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/4175441/Barbie-designer-was-a-swinger-claims-new-book.html

NOT BAD ENOUGH???

HOW ABOUT THIS???

&quot;Modern Barbie Gets Kinky&quot;...

I won&#039;t post any pix. Go to the site for yourself!

http://inventorspot.com/articles/barbie_15545</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This from the Telegraph.co.uk on today&#8217;s site&#8211;</p>
<p>&#8220;Jerry Oppenheimer, the author of Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel [a book to be released soon] claims that Jack Ryan, the late designer who popularised the doll, was a &#8220;full-blown Seventies-style swinger&#8221; with &#8220;a manic need for sexual gratification&#8221;. </p>
<p>Ryan, whose wives included Zsa Zsa Gabor, allegedly held orgies at his house in California at which he surrounded himself with voluptuous Barbie doppelgängers, including Gwen Florea, who provided the voice for a line of talking dolls.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/4175441/Barbie-designer-was-a-swinger-claims-new-book.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/4175441/Barbie-designer-was-a-swinger-claims-new-book.html</a></p>
<p>NOT BAD ENOUGH???</p>
<p>HOW ABOUT THIS???</p>
<p>&#8220;Modern Barbie Gets Kinky&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t post any pix. Go to the site for yourself!</p>
<p><a href="http://inventorspot.com/articles/barbie_15545" rel="nofollow">http://inventorspot.com/articles/barbie_15545</a></p>
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		<title>By: sccdc</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My sisters and I all had Barbies.  I remember being embarrassed if one of my brothers saw her naked.  I remember them looking away if we changed her clothes in front of one of them.  I remember my friend who had all of the cool Barbie stuff.  She&#039;s gone through at least three marriages, not that Barbie is the reason. She was never embarrassed by Barbie the way I was,even with brothers around.  It&#039;s not a feminist issue, it&#039;s a pornography issue.  We&#039;ve experienced a long decline into the sexualization of children.  When my 8 year old asked why it would be wrong for him to kiss a girl, even though I don&#039;t allow much access to mainstream media, I knew the descent was continuing.  He attends an excellent Catholic School, but not all parents are on the same page.  Bratz, Barbie, even Olive Oil present lousy images of women to children.  The male images can be even worse.  Think Bart Simpson.  God help us all to remain in the counter-culture that is the Catholic church.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My sisters and I all had Barbies.  I remember being embarrassed if one of my brothers saw her naked.  I remember them looking away if we changed her clothes in front of one of them.  I remember my friend who had all of the cool Barbie stuff.  She&#8217;s gone through at least three marriages, not that Barbie is the reason. She was never embarrassed by Barbie the way I was,even with brothers around.  It&#8217;s not a feminist issue, it&#8217;s a pornography issue.  We&#8217;ve experienced a long decline into the sexualization of children.  When my 8 year old asked why it would be wrong for him to kiss a girl, even though I don&#8217;t allow much access to mainstream media, I knew the descent was continuing.  He attends an excellent Catholic School, but not all parents are on the same page.  Bratz, Barbie, even Olive Oil present lousy images of women to children.  The male images can be even worse.  Think Bart Simpson.  God help us all to remain in the counter-culture that is the Catholic church.</p>
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