Mattel introduces first Barbie with Down syndrome

[BadBoy89]

Barbie’s new doll representing a person with Down syndrome is part of Mattel’s 2023 Fashionistas line, which is aimed at increasing diversity and inclusivity. Previous dolls that have been introduced to the Fashionistas line include a Ken doll with a prosthetic leg, a Barbie with hearing aids and dolls with a skin condition called vitiligo.

Mattel introduces first Barbie with Down syndrome

WASHINGTON (AP) — Toy company Mattel revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome on Tuesday. Mattel collaborated with the National Down Syndrome Society to create the Barbie and “ensure the doll accurately represents a person with Down syndrome,” the company said...

toronto.citynews.ca

My thoughts: So we are still waiting for fat Barbie, older Barbie, and single mother Barbie. Although how the heck would you represent single mother Barbie?

Thoughts?

 

[BillyPilgrim]

More of the same overall scheme to ingrain weakness, with the ultimate goal of reducing resistance to whatever they want to do to all of us.

 

[Hamurabimbi]

Stats have appx. 100,000 women with DS in the US.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Stats have appx. 100,000 women with DS in the US.

It comes from having children at a late age in life. The odds are nearly zero until age 30, then they curve up exponentially.

 

[Dust 2 Dust]

It comes from having children at a late age in life. The odds are nearly zero until age 30, then they curve up exponentially.

Women over 35 should not be having kids. Kids are at high risk for birth defects.

 

[Kotaix]

What I want to know is: Are these diverse dolls actually selling in the numbers required to justify the expense required to make them? Or is this just another case of the brand trying to appease the diversity and inclusion morons?

Here is one such moron, whose handle is @Shesreallyfat, ranting against the reality of the Barbie consumer base and their desires.
https://medium.com/@Shesreallyfat/barbie-cant-evolve-past-being-a-basic-white-*****-2785665e2988

 

[MatureDJ]

This is simply a standard White Barbie with East-Asiatic features. One of the expressions of Downs Syndrome - which in a less politically correct era was called "Mongoloidism" - is the epicanthic eye fold, which of course is the the main facial characteristic that makes East-Asiatics different from the other main races.

 

[MatureDJ]

My thoughts: So we are still waiting for fat Barbie, older Barbie, and single mother Barbie. Although how the heck would you represent single mother Barbie?

Thoughts?

She's still tappable now though.

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[Bokanovsky]

My thoughts: So we are still waiting for fat Barbie, older Barbie, and single mother Barbie. Although how the heck would you represent single mother Barbie?

Thoughts?

Someone somewhere is probably in the process of a filing a lawsuit against Mattel because there's no transgender Barbie yet. OOPS, never mind. They do have one: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laverne-cox-barbie-mattel-transgender-doll/

I wonder if we can convince Mattel to make a limited edition, SS-exclusive BPD Barbie