How can a Pepto-Pink toy line be anything but evil?

[darclauz]

Barbie.

I hate her.
I hate everything she stands for.

I hate that "gotta be vain" attitude that she promotes in kids. The dress-up, make-up, gotta-have-STUFF attitude.

I told my b*tch sisterinlaw, with the psycho undisciplined kids and the poison streak, that freddie is not allowed to have barbie. that's it.......... no barbie stuff. there's a crapload of toys out there that do NOT promote surface vanity and unhealthy ideals in very young children.

so the first christmas we had freddie, my sis in law got her a "Kelly" doll...barbie name. i let that go, because it's not one of those primp-and-crap dolls...it's just a little figure that freddie has conversations with.

so THIS YEAR, just because EVERY single family event has to be about how melissa is the queen bitch, she got freddie a dress-up-puppy (BARBIE) in her own travelling suitcase of feathered shoes and leather vests. i was FURIOUS. (in fact, to avoid punching her in the face, i went into the bathroom, shut the door, and then my body was so tense and angry that i couldn't even pee.) then SHE stormed out of the room, saying, she'd get me the receipt and i could just take it back.

the next day, i sat down and explained to them that i wanted freddie to learn to be an inside person before she became an outside person. i said, "it's like nic and guns. i know you don't want him to have guns, in that same way, i don't want her to have barbies till she's older."

so after having a smug, i'll-show-you look on her face when freddie opened it, the next day she said she DIDN'T EVEN know it was barbie till she got it home, in spite of the fact that it was pepto-pink.

all to say. i can't stand melissa. and i hate barbie, too.