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OttosER 23, 1992
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The Daily Collegian
Op/Ed-5
FAIR Continued from page 2
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for
Barbie the babe being just the way
she is. I don't know many girls
who, in their youth, didn't at one
time or another look at her and
think, "I want to be just like her.''
Lord knows I'm still reaching for
that GJ. Joe status. Barbie's an
institution and to pick and choose
what she will and won't have to fit
our own likes and dislikes is kind
of petty in the face of what Barbie
really is. To curtail Barbie now
would be to show up at the opera
late and expect them to start over
just for you.
Perhaps it would be wise for a
toy manufacturer, say, femtel, to
create this "Plane [sic] Jane" doll
and see how far
she gets. Take     i
away      the
imagination of
the children
and get them
down to real¬
ity. I person¬
ally can't stand
it when kids
look to the
skies and won¬
der how hard they would have to
jump to hit the moon, the little
maggots, Of all the nerve. Give
them real jobs and tell them to
worry about what's going on in
Washington D.C.
Am I getting my point across?
We adults get the Qub Meds and
the Spring Breaks full of beer and
bikinis. When we're sitting in our
offices looking at secretaries in
tight skirts or at dancers in Chip-
I CAN ALREADY HEAR
THE LOT OF YOU
CRYING FOUL — YOUR
BASIC  INSTINCT.
the children that directly pisses
them off. That's the kind of stop-
and-go traffic in society thatcauses
too many "accidents''.
Now what I'm thinking is going
to take some real stretching from
all of you technisists [sic] out there.
But I think that the children need
those stereotypes to deal with as
kids. At least that's black and
white. Children don't have the
capabilities to distinguish what is
prejudice, granted. And i t co uld be
seen that what a Barbie is or says
can lead diem into chauvinism.
But I doubt iL The idea of scaling
down Barbie in what she says or is
will only lead to gray area and will
not give children the basics in
defining the
differences
between the
sexes. I have
a hard time
visualizing a
bunch of
little Barbie
bras burning
in the streets.
I can al¬
ready hear the
MARRIAGE
Continued from pa« 2
anxious to commit or start a fam¬
ily. Society puts way. too much
emphasis on marriage and family
life and clearly this column isn't
exactly fighting against that.
Rather, I am attempting to rede¬
fine the marital norm that has been
shoved down women's throats for
centuries. Women are taught that
if they lack a partner, they aren't as
neo-reality. The children want to
be what most likely isn't going to
happen. They want to have what
they aren't going to get. If a little
girl wants to sit with her friends
and play house, to cook and clean
house while their imaginary hus¬
bands are at work, let them do it
We did it, didn't we? I did. I mar¬
ried a dozen times right up until
the eighth grade. And too many
people out there, including my¬
self, now know that the best mar¬
riages we had were in our youths.
How many little boys are out
there running around playing sol¬
dier? A make believe game with
terrifying real results. No girl gets
her head blown off for failing math.
But some of those kids playing'
army are going to die someday on
the battle field. That we can be
sure of. But are they crying about
that? No, they want to take away
only the part of the imagination of
worried about profits than the great
role they have played with Barbie.
And to all you wimpy crybabies
out there, remember the sword of
fairness cuts both ways.
Anthony H. Godoy II
KHTTW
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it's our PirroK/
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worthy. Even having a lover or a
dating relationship doesn't satisfy
society's primitive hunger for
matrimony. The relationship and
the woman are only important
when the couple marry.
You don't need a partner to be
a valid person. If a woman is
heterosexual, then she should wait
until the right man comes along.
She shouldn't feel pressured to
grab the first guy she has a rela¬
tionship with.
Create a family with your
friends. Learn to love being with
-yourself and doing things with
other women. Remember, mar¬
riage is not the end all, be alL Start
to feel comfortable being alone. It
can be a wonderful feeling and is
something rarely experienced.
All men are not the same.
Feminist men do exist. I know. I
married a man who is more of a
feminist than I am. Don't forget
what Louise said in the movie
"Thelma and Louise'*: "You get
what you settle for."
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lot of you crying foul—your basic
instinct But think of what a teen¬
ager would be if there weren't
drawn the lines we had in youth.
Isn't the thought of a "child mut**
[ski somewhat disturbing? Why
do you think the character "Pat"
was created on SNL?
So sorry somebody has stepped
on your toes. But I think you're a
selfish bunch of miserable
wretches, whoever you are. And I
pendales, how much of our   feel bad for Mattel, some sp^je-
thoughts are reality? That's our   less chicken-shit executive more
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