My favorite poem from Kinky, is BARBIE AS MAFIOSA. I thought it was very well written and creative. My favorite passage from this poem is, "I'm just playing, she'll say, or you can't prove a thing. I barely even have a brain."


My favorite passage from Barbie's Queer Accessories is, "What remains consistent is that, no matter how many consumers Mattel expands its infinite possibility line to bring in, Mattel, and Barbie, always remains faithful to those who buy into the prevailing idea that the best thing to be is white, skinny, blonde, glamourous, rich, largely apolitical, and heterosexual, although it caters to some of these values more subtly than before."

I think these two passages help relate to the idea that we are responsible for why and how Barbie is the way she is. She is "just playing" the role we have given her, which is the role of a skinny, blonde, beautiful woman. We have put the idea of perfection into a doll, a doll who can not tell us if she wants to be a size ten, for she has no brain. Barbie isn't to blame for her looks or her goals, we are as a society. Sure, Mattel manufactured the doll but maybe we are just as guilty for making Barbie who she really is. She is just playing the role we made for her. The role of perfection.

Sex and the Campus

If anyone has been watching the news you would be familiar with the story of the former Duke University grad who made a powerpoint of whom she had slept with throughout her college career. She did not mean for it to send to the whole world, she only meant to send it two friends. Who of course sent it to three friends who sent it to three friends. Everyone I have talked to about this have very different points of view. Many think its absolutely terrible that she did this, I on the other hand don't see a problem with this. I don't necessarily think that it is appropriate to have a power point with pictures of the men however it is her sex life and she was just being open with it. I don't think I will be ever making power points but if she wants to more power to her.

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