No! Not Barbie!

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From Chapter 5: Barbie and the In-Crowd

Not to forget the seminal moment of my young girlhood, the Christmas when Barbie was all the rage, ’59 or ’60 I think, and I had asked Santa for a race car set.  When I opened my main present and it was a Barbie, I burst out crying!  How could Santa do this to me?  I was very clear on the subject of what I wanted for Christmas when I sat on his lap and when I wrote him a letter.  How could he possibly mess it up this badly?  And here I was on the best day of the whole year and I couldn’t stop crying. Dad was in a panic, he thought every little girl wanted a Barbie. 

He called his friend who owned a toy store (this is on Christmas Day, mind you) and begged him to open up just long enough for him to get a race car set for his daughter or her heart would be permanently broken! He returned with the present Santa had “accidentally left outside.” 

I was ecstatic!  There it was — the race car set of my dreams!  Deep down I had known that somehow Santa would come through in the end!  I joyfully set it up and promptly tied Barbie to the track.  It was a beautiful sight to see the cars crash over Barbie — the perfectly skinny plastic girl I would never in a lifetime resemble.  Die Barbie!

Clearly this little girl who saw herself as the conquering hero, fantasized that she would travel to the ends of the earth and delighted in destroying Barbie was not destined to be anyone’s version of Suzie Homemaker.

 

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