If you thought Barbie’s only crime was hanging on to the blue eye-liner past the 1980s and hoarding a collection of eye-watering pink shoes, think again – apparently she is also a part-time corrupter of youth:
The Iranian Prosecutor General, Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi, said that toys such as Barbie, Batman, and Harry Potter have negative social consequences.
Mr Najafabadi wants measures taken to protect what he called Iran’s Islamic culture and revolutionary values.
“We need to find substitutes to ward off this onslaught, which aims at children and young people whose personality is in the process of being formed,” Mr Najafabadi said.
Mr Najafabadi’s comments were made in a letter addressed to Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoudi, and quoted in several Iranian newspapers.
“The displays of personalities such as Barbie, Batman, Spiderman and Harry Potter… as well as the irregular importation of unsanctioned computer games and movies are all warning bells to officials in the cultural arena,” he wrote, according to a copy of the letter seen by Associated Press.
“The irregular importation of such toys, which unfortunately arrive through unofficial sources and smuggling, is destructive culturally and a social danger,” he said.
Question is, does she come with accessories for her new role?
[Via: Economic Times]
Filed under: Culture, Iran, Middle East, Religion
Haram 3alay, hasn’t he ever heard of Bratz?
They must be the Great-est of Satan-esses.
Amazing to me (imo) that Fulla still has some of the greatest sins of Barbie…anatomically impossible features and proportions which make normal girls and women look dumpy and make men drool.
And, she is just as white as Barbie…which makes me think she is an Eastern male design and fantasy. Somehow, covering her with an abaya makes it all holy and good.
Asalaamo alaikum,
The indoctrination of ‘thiness” starts early in the USA with girl magazines and even earlier with dolls. It is now a disease, where girls are bulimic, have serious psychiatric disorders that physicians are battling without success .
The imprinting of the psyche very early on as to what is beautiful and what is not is stronger than any counseling or drugs that physicians may use.
All done under the first amendment. The right to sell what ever. Of course people have the right not to buy it. However what do you do when it is in your childs face 24/7 as a standard of beauty?
It is not humorous on this side of the ocean, at least not for parents, the sick girls and the physicians.
For some reason this reminded me of something Oprah said years ago about not being able to find a black angel doll!