If life in plastic were a physical place, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson may have calculated where it could be.
top of his video, Tyson explains that Barbie has sometimes received heat for how it could socialize young girls“But what did Barbie not do?” he continued in the video. “You talked about socialization... other dolls were babies. So you’re a young girl, and you’re trained to care for a baby and feed it and isn’t that socialization? You’re gonna have to care for little children, and that’s gonna be your job. That’s your role in society. Barbie was not a homemaker...
Tyson points out that there is a case to be made against Barbie in terms of how she defined body expectations for young girls before pointing to boy-geared toys like GI Joes, which could have potentially socialized the children who had such a toy to be interested in war and killing people they’ve never met before.
“I played with toy guns. For goodness sake. That’s how old I am,” he explained. “Where was the outrage at the time over that?”
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