Girl Dolls

Girl Dolls

When most people think of dolls, they only think of girl dolls. There has long been the opinion that boys should not play with dolls. But what are action figures if not dolls with meaner faces? For both a boy and a girl, dolls can be useful educational tools.

For a boy or a girl, dolls can provide a wholesome and healthy activity. From a psychological standpoint, it is a way for a child to express and play out their own life through a smaller child who is dependant on them. It also teaches parental responsibility and indeed responsibility in general, even more so with the modern dolls that require feeding, changing and interaction.

The most famous of all the girl dolls is the Barbie doll. No other doll has a syndrome named after it. Barbie syndrome can be experienced be pre-teen and early adolescent female youth. In a loose definition, it is the desire to imitate the appearance and lifestyle of Barbie to seem most appealing to boys.

For many feminist intellectuals, this is a subject of forced perception because the likelihood of achieving the same body type as Barbie is virtually impossible, even more so for a young girl. On the other end of the scale, there is also the Ken syndrome, which is the desire in young boys to have the same appearance as Barbie's boyfriend. This body shape is much easier to obtain that the disproportionate and unrealistic shape of the Barbie doll.