Ma'am; ... if you have a lot of crap, then grow a garden or write an article.... Not to demean you, but Barbie was just a big part of selling the demi-virge to a lot of young girls whose parent have not ever had the authority to police them, or the power to say no to them... Making our girls want to dress like prostitutes long before they know what it is about is some rich fat guy's fantasy.... I think it is silly, and worse; and it is not just that, but a big industry, and it has been for years... Thank God my kids were Goths bedecked with human skulls and painted black... At least they seemed to consciouly reject the notion of vagrant adolescent sexual intimidation... Who knows what they did in private... At least they weren't pointing it at the whole world in broad daylight, and saying: Dare you!!! Thanks.... Sweeney