I always found the Barbie debate interesting because I never wanted to look like her.  Essentially, I treated her as a way for me to use my imagination.  I would play with her and make up stories with her, she’d go on all these grand adventures, I used her as a way to have fun and be creative.  I never looked at her body and wondered why I couldn’t look like her.  She was a doll, a toy, something for me to play with, to dress up and be all these amazing things.  I gave her magic powers, I made her one of the Thundercats, I turned my shoe box into her car because I didn’t have the actual car, I pretty much did what I wanted and it was great.  

Like this post says, it is great to have representation, but this Barbie body image argument always seems to ignore all of the things you can do with Barbie by just taking her at face value.