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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:27 AM Aug 2012

Barbie's Proportions On A Real Woman Are Mildly Terrifying

According to Aqua's famous song, "Barbie Girl," "life in plastic" is "fantastic." But judging from this photo showing how Barbie's proportions would look on an actual human woman, emulating Barbie doesn't seem all that great.

The photo began making the Internet rounds after Australian blog, "So Bad So Good" tweeted it:



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/barbie-real-woman-proportions-mildly-terrifying_n_1749204.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

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Barbie's Proportions On A Real Woman Are Mildly Terrifying (Original Post) MrScorpio Aug 2012 OP
Dana Bash has that chin/cheek combo Electric Monk Aug 2012 #1
The Right Wing would be more upset by this one... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2012 #2
Amazing what you can produce without genitalia. aquart Aug 2012 #5
So are the Hulk's. Bonobo Aug 2012 #3
Right, but to jump as high as he does, he'd need bigger glutes. Bucky Aug 2012 #12
Valeria Lukyanova thelordofhell Aug 2012 #4
Like the average guy's gonna measure up to G.I. Joe pinboy3niner Aug 2012 #6
Like the average guy's gonna measure up to G.I. Joe pinboy3niner Aug 2012 #6
The Rescue Heroes action figures (no they are NOT dolls) make me feel inadequate as a man.. Fumesucker Aug 2012 #8
and Charlie Brown's skeleton is downright freakish. Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #9
And I suppose Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny aren't real either! pinboy3niner Aug 2012 #11
Oh, he lives. Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #13
Perhaps this Planet is grossly maladapted for him pinboy3niner Aug 2012 #14
wait a minute. "Aqua's famous song"? Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #10
 

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
1. Dana Bash has that chin/cheek combo
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:38 AM
Aug 2012

and I had no idea there was a "CNNFAN.ORG" website until I did a google image search for 'dana bash'

http://cnnfan.org/index.php?/topic/301-dana-bash/

Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
3. So are the Hulk's.
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:25 AM
Aug 2012


Isn't it high time we stop pressuring our boy's with these impossible images of masculinity?

Bucky

(53,986 posts)
12. Right, but to jump as high as he does, he'd need bigger glutes.
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 05:40 AM
Aug 2012

That means butt muscles. I also suspect he'd need hollow bones, like a bird, and yet still much bigger feet.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
6. Like the average guy's gonna measure up to G.I. Joe
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 04:05 AM
Aug 2012

If these guys got a hold of G.I. Joe, he'd be a fat guy eating Cheetos in his parents' basement.

Ken, with his anatomically-incorrect example, is no good, either.

With all of our heroes being trashed, where, oh where, will we find new heroes? ...





pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
6. Like the average guy's gonna measure up to G.I. Joe
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 04:05 AM
Aug 2012

If these guys got a hold of G.I. Joe, he'd be a fat guy eating Cheetos in his parents' basement.

Ken, with his anatomically-incorrect example, is no good, either.

With all of our heroes being trashed, where, oh where, will we find new heroes? ...





Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
9. and Charlie Brown's skeleton is downright freakish.
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 05:20 AM
Aug 2012

There's no way you could support that cranium on a planet with anything close to 1G.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
11. And I suppose Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny aren't real either!
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 05:30 AM
Aug 2012

You're harshin' my mellow, dude. Charlie Brown LIVES!!!!

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
14. Perhaps this Planet is grossly maladapted for him
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 05:51 AM
Aug 2012

Charlie Brown's a sweetheart. How could HE possibly be 'maladapted'?

If it weren't for that damn Lucy, he'd be a superhero!

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
10. wait a minute. "Aqua's famous song"?
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 05:22 AM
Aug 2012

You mean the song that was voted Worst Song Of The 90s?

Yeah, famous like Howard The Duck. Famous for sucking.

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