DC$$ the Scandal page a Baghdad rocks • page 4 Colours supplement•lnsert Rage against the Machine • page 5 INDOCII?\NA lED BY A CH\NESE CANAD\AN poNDERS HAl \I MEANS IO BE \N OV/? -CVLIVI?E, t-\NDS SHE rALLS SH0/?1 have always disliked pink and as a child I watched more G.!. Jo~ than My Littk Pony. So images on Tv: Afi:er reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's all-around happy teenager. As I've never had any it was only natural for me to skip the whole books, I took to watching Littk House on the serious aspirations to be a doctor, nor astronaut, Bar~ie thing. Prairi~. Even little Laura envied Mary for her nor scientist, nor surfer-girl, that deems me as a I never owned a Barbie nor ever wished to. Yet, blonde hair and blue eyes, and they were sisters. failure yet again, by the Barbie factor. because I watched a lot of Smurfi and Car~ Bears I Quite frankly, growing up Chinese in western I have fai led in yet another way, according to the inevitably sat through countless commercials society has given me a peculiar set of mix-and­ standards of Barbie. I hate to buy things if they are hawking the latest Barbie. match values. And the Barbie factor doesn't help not books. The blatant consumerism encouraged Through the weekly ritual of Saturday morning things. I stand 15 5 em tall (for the metrically by Babs and her ilk never really made any sense to cartoons, it was my distinct rrusfortune to have had challenged, that's 5'2)-not short by any means, me. You would have to be crazy not to want a car Barbie imprinted on my brain as the epitome of just not tall. Compare my legs to Barbie's one-sixth of your own. Barbie has one. Then again, a pink feminine beauty in much the same manner as scale ones and mine are positively stumps. Not to sports car is a little much. Exact!J how many outfits Pavlov's dog. Over and qver again the little girls mention that my hips are too wide by far. It's a with matching accessories does she have in that would brush their Barbie's hair just so, good thing I have small feet, but I could never wear pink dream home of hers, anyway? CAfHY J A Jl\ styling it just the right way, adjust the the killer heels that Barbie prefers. I teeter precari- And speaking of buying things, have you looked ously on 2-inch heels, and ifl actually were to at the price of Barbie lately? Sky-high prices for a wear anything longer I would probably fall and piece of moulded plastic. Never did I see a Barbie CHR\Sf\NA ~OLfZ PHOfOS break a leg. advertised on TV that wasn't the classic Barbie. I doll's already immaculate clothing, and then step Surely it must be every little girl's dream to grow didn't know that there was an Asian Barbie for sale back to admire their handiwork, announcing in up and have a boyfriend like Ken. Tall, dark and until I started researching this article. Browsing the sugary tones bursting with giggles, "Oh how pretty handsome, and he goes everywhere with you when toy department at Eaton's, I found one solitary she looks!" you want him to. He also doesn't mind being the Japanese Barbie. True, the cast of irs features were How pretty, indeed. Barbie, with her long only guy in your bevy of friends and he never not that of the Western Barbie, bur dressed in a blonde hair, big blue eyes with impossibly long objects to you dressing him in clothes that you like. kimono, the doll is removed from the everyday and eyelashes, svelte body in daunting proportions, He is never boorish and doesn't spend the whole therefore a novelty; an aberration from the norm. long legs and incredibly arched feet has long been a afternoon in front of the TV with his friends, What exactly is Barbie trying to say to little girls North American pop culture icon. So it was that a acting like pigs. All in all, Ken's pretty great. Alas, ofWestern extraction? Get breast implants, go child with black hair and brown eyes-growing up poor me doesn't have a boyfriend like that. In fact, anorexic, bleach your hair, buy tinted contacts at a time when crayola still made "flesh coloured" I don't have any boyfriend at all . Guess that makes because only perfect people have any fun. crayons--came to long for wavy blonde hair and me a failure, right? Come on Barbie, let's go party. .p blue eyes. Over the years, Barbie has been a doctor, top­ FOI( f"/IOI(f Of OVi( SPECIAL COLOVI(S Being a bookworm didn't stop the barrage of level executive, astronaut, scientist, surfer-babe and \SSVE, SEE fOVI( PAGE INSERT" lft{erthe* Press 1111•1 U • IIUI 14•1111111 U, 1111 Room 1020-700 Roya!Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 [email protected] Phone 525.3542 Fax 527.5095 or 525.3505 David Lam Office Room A3107 Phone 527.5805 h< OtMr Pms is Douglas Collegis autonomous student , ... /. T nowspaper. We've been publishing since 1976. The Other Pn:ss is run as an anarcho-syndicalist commune. 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