#barbie indian

[my-plastic-life]

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

[atlanticbones]

"What did you say?! CASA HOUSE?! CASA MEANS HOUSE BRO! YOU'RE SAYING HOUSE HOUSE! Would I ask to use the stove stove in your kitchen kitchen?!"

[lilybug-02]

me vibing to the absolute, most broad spectrum of music humanity can conjure

[brownglitter]

Aishwarya Rai as Paro in Devdas (2002)

[blackalisondilaurentis1996]

Wear faux, don’t be it.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

She is everything. He is just Ken

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Desi Barbie aesthetic

Self revelation is a cruel process. The real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

-Shashi Deshpande

[husn-e-bahar]

Waqt (1965)

[barbielore]

Speaking as a non-American, I do not feel confident in my ability to fully assess the American Stories Collection of Barbies but nonetheless I will do my best to respectfully approach this series.

The American Stories Collection were a series of historical Barbies, representing what Mattel presumably thought were important parts of America's culture. These were released across 1994, 1995 and 1996. Each of them came with props to go along with their historical outfits, as well as a storybook.

For example, Civil War Nurse Barbie comes with a little bag presumably for her medical equipment.

Meanwhile Patriot Barbie, whose box text indicates that she is out showing support for the Founding Fathers, has a little bell.

There were in fact two different Barbies in the collection labelled Pioneer Barbie, one from 1994 and the other from 1995.

One had a predominately green dress, a basket of apples, and a storybook entitled "Western Promise"; the other a milk jug, a floral dress with an apron, and a storybook entitled "Shopkeeper's Dream".

This collection also featured dolls referred to as, and I believe this term is frequently now considered outdated to say the least, though I admit that as someone who is both white and non-American I am not fully informed about this, "American Indian Barbies".

These two are the only dolls in the collection who are not depicted as white, and they are also the only dolls who have children or infants instead of props. The first of these has a storybook entitled "Animal Gifts", and the second has a story called "Baby Blue Feather".

I do not know to what extent, if any, these costumes are historically accurate; but something about them leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It is apparent, of course, that these dolls as whole represent a view of American history that is biased and from a colonialist perspective; I feel as though by the mid-90s Mattel could, and should, have done a better job.

(As usual please feel free to correct me if I am wrong about something, off base about anything, or if you would like this post tagged in any other way.)

[ramayantika]

YOU ALL I WATCHED OPPENHEIMER

[sridevifanforever]

Pretty in pink: Sridevi's innumerable Barbie moments in Bollywood

[hiero-green]

mmmmmMMMMMMRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH !!!!!! SHE'S HERE SHE'S HERE 😭 AAAAA

[kalhamamor]

Thanks, ur a doll!

[ergo-im]

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