From Make Over to Take Over

Reading more into my book I have discovered a lot of things that for me seemed distant and unreal. This book shows a lot of situations young girls go through and that even though we never hear about them they happen very regularly and in the lives of the people we least expect.

While reading I got to a chapter called “Free Barbie”. Instantly my op-ed article came to my head. In it I discussed how the way Barbie looks has created stereotypes all around the world of how a “beautiful” woman should look like. Strangely this chapter talked about the same thing, not only does she try to show the consequences wanting to look like this plastic doll brings, but also she tries to shows Barbie’s perspective of what she look like to society.

Chang Ying a 16-year-old chines girl who works in the Barbie factory at Kwai Yong, China talks about her experience in this cruel sweatshop where no one matters except for the plastic dolls being made. Ying says, “ She talks to me. She’s really angry. She’s really hurting. She is really guilty. She hates shopping and feels bad about all the girls who are starved to make her and are starving to be like her.” We as human beings tend to blame everything on some one else. Even blame stuff on plastic object or situations so that we can free our selves from the fact that it was always our fault. Obviously Barbie didn’t decide her personality, or how to look. There was some greedy businessman who knew how girls would feel about this perfect doll and how much they would want to buy it.

Reflecting on my op-ed article I would probably change the part where I blame Barbie for making girls turn into walking skeletons or people pleasures and instead I would make the industries, the market, the money, and never less the people who control this stuff, responsible for all that happens with girls. To start changing society we have to start with our selves.

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