Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie

Interesting primarily from a marketing perspective. A story about good timing, a tenacious founder, and a chance encounter in Germany with a doll named Lil (sold in service stations and marketed to men!) gives way to a drearily self-important discourse in sociology. Yes, fine, Barbie was culturally relevant and yes this is a great big advertisement for woke mattel products. Guaranteed to give any survivors of corporate america (particularly in marketing & PR) severe agita. Trigger alert: Mattel employees with severe upspeak, vocal trill, and tragic buzz word addiction. 90 minutes seems like 4 hours.

Stupid movie! it's a doll! I don't think that playing with a pretty doll makes you feel bad or better about yourself. Barbie, if anything shows little girls they can be anything when they grow up. Like a doctor, flight attendant, bee keeper, veterinarian, dentist, astronaut. The movie was basically about people who don't like the way they look blame it on a doll.

Obviously u folks spewing all this negativity towards this doc never played with dolls. I thought it was a really good, necessary watch. People saying "it's just a doll" never had insecurities or body image issues. Although I wished for more interviews with children, since their opinions mattered most with this subject matter, it was nice to hear from actual Mattel employees. I also enjoyed learning a little about the founding couple behind the brand, especially Ruth, who was a bad chick. Barbie has meant so much to women/girls the last 60+ years so as a progressive figure she was long overdue for a relaunch. I think she still has a ways to go to be more inclusive and to keep the attention of kids, but think it's a step in the right direction.

I do believe society has placed too much pressure on a doll, however since Barbie is in the public eye, there's a certain level of responsibility that entails.

I really daily run Barbie are qualified to be. They missed the whole point of Barbie! She's supposed to be fun to play with! And the thing is she was perfect what's wrong with playing with the perfect little doll? She had plenty of black fans in the early 60s! In the 80 she was cute too but it's these two thousands Barbie dolls that look weird, and then we get to meet the people behind it. People who are offended by growing up Etc. You know, the name of the documentaries tiny shoulders but they spend more time talking about her thigh gap. I'm actually offended by the plus size doll and I look similar to that plus size doll. Is this her face is so ugly! What was wrong with regular Barbie in the first place I think she's perfect and I ain't look more like the real Barbie than the Plus Size Barbie! Is so ridiculous and that plus size doll doesn't have any cute clothes I mean they're vaguely cute which is a problem that plus-size people have. In real life Barbie doesn't have that problem. The people who run Barbie currently just really overthink things to the point where it's no longer fun It also shows the company purposely getting low-ball publicity for Barbie which is kind of sad but I guess they needed to do it. Another painfully obvious thing is it the original creator of Barbie at the secret sauce and so did the second head of Barbie in the 1980s she did a really good job and make Mattel billionaires. They really need to take lessons from the previous CEOs and owners and creators of Barbie she doesn't need to be changed anymore we like her being very pretty and beautiful. We like her big breasts why take them away? In fact that's what the owner the original CEO said, none of the men thought that the dog will be successful because she had breast but when they sold out instantly by women. She also went on to make silicone breast which is actually very interesting and shows how powerful she is! Very happy for her and proud of her she's a very creative woman. Now, if we can only get this new generation that get up on that. For the most part it's just feels like another publicity stunt. It seems like Mattel sponsored it or something like that I guess the documentary tried but not until the very end to be a documentary more like a reality show

I cannot believe that people actually thought Barbie was FORCING people to be skinny. FORCING people into thinking that beauty is white, blonde and skinny.

The very first words from this documentary comes from a woman who says "I'm glad I didn't grow up with Barbie".

I wonder if Barbie has also told people to go rob a bank. People need to take responsibility for themselves. If a toy can dictate your child's future, there is something wrong with the parents.

People need to look around at other things that were influencing children. Maybe famous people like Farrah and Jackie Kennedy. To blame this all on a doll is ridiculous.

I am glad I grew up with Barbie. The toy doll did not tell me to be skinny, blonde or anything else. The Barbie doll did encourage my imagination to play and dream as a little girl..