defrog: (bdsm bear)
defrog ([personal profile] defrog) wrote2008-07-18 07:04 pm

BARBIE THINKS YOU NEED A RIGHT GOOD SPANKING, SLUT

ITEM [via [personal profile] trillsie]: Mattel’s new collector’s edition Black Canary Barbie® is due out in September.

Cue the inevitable.

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Oh, DO stop.

I’m not particularly interested in defending Barbie, and I’m not that big a fan of Black Canary as a character, either. But I do find it funny that people can look at this toy and say, “O look! Barbie is promoting S&M to children!” Especially when (1) most kids have no concept of what BDSM is, and certainly wouldn’t get it from a Barbie in a superhero outfit, and (2) no one’s ever said that about Black Canary, even though she (and her daughter) have been wearing that costume since 1947.

Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dominatrix dress like this. Maybe I don’t get out enough. But I have five American dollars that says dominatrixes only wear an outfit like this on request (presumably from customers who want to be dominated by Black Canary).

Besides, a proper BDSM Barbie would look nothing like that.

She’d look more like this.



Everyone knows that.

Show me the ropes,

This is dF

[identity profile] scifigal.livejournal.com 2008-07-18 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
She just looks Ukrainian to me. Heck, Ukrainian women will even wear flesh colored fishnets.