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Barbie has a new body, but was it necessary?

By Ashe Schow
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Barbie has a new body, but was it necessary?

Toymaker Mattel is receiving praise and backlash for revealing three new body types for its popular children’s doll Barbie: Tall, petite and curvy.

Some are praising the toymaker for making the doll more realistic. Others, predictably, are upset that more body types aren’t being introduced. (Morbidly obsese Barbie, anyone?) Because you can never please everybody, and you certainly can never please those committed to finding outrage and sexism under every rock.

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