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Urk! Barbie now has a dragon! Named Penelope. She's purple. This is so wrong. What has Barbie done that she deserves a dragon?

This is my teenage geeky science fiction club self (which is still a rather large part of me) being jealous that the popular kids have dicovered what I thought was really cool. Did someone at Mattel suddenly start reading Anne McAffrey or something?

I have never been fond of Barbies. My mother gave me several when I was a kid and spent all kinds of time crocheting little outfits for her. I think she was disappointed that I spent most of my time playing with my brothers' Tonka trucks and my Breyer horses. I did have a Dawn doll that I liked, but she was only half the size of Barbie and less well endowed. I've always favored the underdog and I think Barbie intimidated me. I was watching some history thing about Barbie, and although her creator named her after her daughter, her shape was inspired by a German doll of an adult character from a men's cartoon. This one was was usually getting men to buy her drinks in bars. Named Trixie or Floozie or something.

The local Toys R Us has a giagantic Barbie section - it hurts my eyes, it's so neon pink.

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Urk! Barbie now has a dragon! Named Penelope. She's purple. This is so wrong. What has Barbie done that she deserves a dragon?

This is my teenage geeky science fiction club self (which is still a rather large part of me) being jealous that the popular kids have dicovered what I thought was really cool. Did someone at Mattel suddenly start reading Anne McAffrey or something?

I have never been fond of Barbies. My mother gave me several when I was a kid and spent all kinds of time crocheting little outfits for her. I think she was disappointed that I spent most of my time playing with my brothers' Tonka trucks and my Breyer horses. I did have a Dawn doll that I liked, but she was only half the size of Barbie and less well endowed. I've always favored the underdog and I think Barbie intimidated me. I was watching some history thing about Barbie, and although her creator named her after her daughter, her shape was inspired by a German doll of an adult character from a men's cartoon. This one was was usually getting men to buy her drinks in bars. Named Trixie or Floozie or something.

The local Toys R Us has a giagantic Barbie section - it hurts my eyes, it's so neon pink.

First ever...

Speaking of pink reminds of the office I went to yesterday where I had my first mammogram. The entire office was shades of pink and mauve. I checked in and was shown to a another waiting room where I was directed to enter a (pink) stall, undress from the waist up and put on a "gown" - also mauve, it was really more of a tie-on shirt. I stowed my stuff in the (pink) locker as directed and joined the other women in the (pink) waiting room. When I was called, I was led down the hall to an exam room. I was suprised the machinery wasn't pink. Beth had told me it's amazing how flat they can clamp them. The technician, maneuvered them around, lay them on a shelf, and then squashed them, first from top to bottom and then side to side. "Relax your shoulders, raise your arm, you'll have to hold the other one out of the way, oh let me do that, I arrange these things all day long, now don't move or breathe, ok you can breathe now...."

Strange.

First ever...

Speaking of pink reminds of the office I went to yesterday where I had my first mammogram. The entire office was shades of pink and mauve. I checked in and was shown to a another waiting room where I was directed to enter a (pink) stall, undress from the waist up and put on a "gown" - also mauve, it was really more of a tie-on shirt. I stowed my stuff in the (pink) locker as directed and joined the other women in the (pink) waiting room. When I was called, I was led down the hall to an exam room. I was suprised the machinery wasn't pink. Beth had told me it's amazing how flat they can clamp them. The technician, maneuvered them around, lay them on a shelf, and then squashed them, first from top to bottom and then side to side. "Relax your shoulders, raise your arm, you'll have to hold the other one out of the way, oh let me do that, I arrange these things all day long, now don't move or breathe, ok you can breathe now...."

Strange.