It’s Barbie’s Birthday, but the Anti-Barbie Showed up for the Party

Oh World, there is something for everyone.  Yesterday we strived for equality between the sexes with International Women's Day.  Today we learn it's Barbie Day! 

If you look at the doll's history, it seems Barbie's original purpose got all twisted up. According to Barbiemedia.com, Barbie's designer Ruth Handler, said this about the doll's creation.

My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to be. Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.”

Probably the fact that she was first a fashion model made people forget about that career choices thing. This first commercial certainly doesn't make it seem like Barbie can do anything!

I must admire Ruth though.  She had a vision that no one else had and it made her millions, probably billions of dollars. Barbie was introduced at the annual Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959.  Never before had there been a doll with breasts!

Now here we are 56 years later, and Barbie can do it all. She is an astronaut, doctor, nurse, teacher, and CEO, just to name a few of her occupations.  The girl has quite a resume, plus the strangely perfect doll body.

Enter artist Nickolay Lamm  who launched a Kickstarter page last year to raise $95,000 to make THIS kind of doll. One who looks more like a human.

He raised  $106,000 in just one day.to make what he calls a doll modeled after the average person.  Her proportions are based on the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s measurements for an average 19-year-old.

Nick raised the money and made the doll, now let's see if anybody buys her.

She cost $25.00 on the Lammily Website.  You can also get reusable stickers for the doll called Lammily Marks.that resemble, acne, tattoos, bumps, bruises and scratches.