It appears that Barbie has found religion. After rebelling with Harley Davidson Barbie and bikini Barbie. There is even an S & M Barbie in all leather and fishnet stockings. Now, however, there is Burka Barbie.
Of course, this could be a surplus GI Joe in a Burka but the covered Barbie is on display with 500 other Barbies at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy. To complete the image of subjugation for feminists, Burka Barbie will be auctioned off to the highest bidder as part of the fundraiser by Sotheby’s.
For many, the doll teaches girls to accept an obnoxious practice of women covering themselves — a practice common in areas where girls as young as ten are routinely married off. Then again, many Muslims would likely argue that, if Mattel markets kinky Barbie, why shouldn’t it also make Barbies for conservative Islamic families?
Would do you think?
For the picture of Burka Barbie and full story, click here.
Gyges:
Free will is a useful fiction if one wants to remain chained to the vageries of nature.
Byron,
Personally I knew I wasn’t a monkey because of my lack of tail.
There’s a quote in Shermer’s “The Science of Good and Evil,” (I can’t remember who said it originally) “Free will is a useful fiction.”
DAR:
hey goat herder, you going to answer?
Regards,
Immoral Monkey