Anti-Barbie is parody,
vengeful, truthful, satirical, non-commercial & not connected with
Mattel Inc. in any way!. This is free speech & personal opinion.
1959
Number One Barbie, Bild Lilli, A German Sex Toy is used as the
design for the first Barbie Doll dated 1958
The Anti-Barbie History of the World
Why Do We Do This
Anti-Barbie was formed in late 2002 by
ex-Barbie doll collectors who finally had enough of the negative impact
Barbie was having on today's society. Actions by Mattel Inc have
been not only stupid and devilishly evil but greedy, callous, devious and
just plain not very nice
(yes, this is where we get into the heavy stuff at
Anti-Barbie.)
We want to get our message across using two
factors: humor and the truth!
Everything stated on
this website is true and learnt over the many years we wasted on
collecting Barbie. In creating Anti-Barbie we did
encounter things
even we didn't know, and that quite frankly shocked even us, such as Vintage
and Mod Barbies are poisonous and Mattel Inc puts code into computer games so they can 'read' your computer when you go online, take
a look at our
links for those news articles. The last straw for us was when Mattel Inc decided it wanted two
of the domain names we registered www.americanbarbieclub.com and
www.australianbarbieclub.com and took legal action to get them,
(scaring us with inches thick envelopes of legal
documents from a law firm in New York), all
the more crazy as the clubs were simply pro-Barbie online clubs.
The "person" who got to decide ownership worked for a company that was
paid by Mattel Inc to make the decision and, surprise surprise, they won.
We were never notified and only found out accidentally when we tried to update the
websites and suddenly discovered they were now under Mattel's name.
So we stopped feeding money into the monster Barbie
had become for us and started really having fun. Enjoy Anti-Barbie and please come back soon as it's growing.....
A word in your ear!
Why Barbie & Ken Broke-Up,
aka Welcome to Breaksville! Yes in a huge marketing exercise
designed as a last ditch attempt to sell a few Barbies Mattel broke up the
plastic princess and Ken. Why does this sell dolls? Three ways,
firstly collectors are going to fall for it hook line & sinker & rush
out to purchase the 'last' Ken, secondly they are then going to buy the new
guy Blaine & thirdly Mattel gets it's name in the papers across the world.
This is how they work, & it is successful, who didn't hear about them 'breaking up'?
That is part of the danger of simply adopting the
attitude of ''it's just a doll". This is not only a toy standing
alone, it is one with the
largest powerhouse of money, advertising companies,
professional
selling skills, motivation techniques, sales management staff, product
placement, demographic targeting, child psychology experts etc etc.
They know what to do to affect how a whole society thinks
& here we are
talking about the most vulnerable members of it, children. As
difficult as it can be for an adult to resist advertising, imagine how it is for a child. "There have been numerous studies documenting that
young children under 8 years of age developmentally are unable to understand
the intent of advertisements
& accept advertising claims as
true." See American Academy of Pediatrics. 1995. "Children Adolescents, and
Advertising." Policy Statement RE9504. Pediatrics (February):
295-297. So what does this all mean and how can you help your child to combat
these strong influences? It's easy really, don't
let your child watch commercial television! Use videos and DVDs
that do not have advertising on them that way they can watch all the latest
programs without the mind manipulating ads.
