New Type 1 Diabetic "Barbie Doll"

[arista]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/nTgAAeSw5zJocGKd/s-l1600.jpg


It has its own gadget,
even has the plastic plugs on her body


Just on CNN HD USA on UK TV

[Zizu]

They could have made her lesbian as well … and tick another box


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[Mystic Mock]

I can't believe that I'm the one that's going to ask this.

But why is Barbie not blonde?

[Zizu]

I can't believe that I'm the one that's going to ask this.

But why is Barbie not blonde?


Yeah… crazy !!

I still don’t understand why they put Ariana Grande in a blonde wig when it clearly makes her look washed out !


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[Ammi]

…I mean, she could be used to help children to understand their type 1 diagnosis but it wouldn’t be good for any parents/families to have to purchase her, she should be given to them for free as diet requirements are expensive enough and a strain on a family…

[Crimson Dynamo]

more virtue signalling pish noone asked for

[joeysteele]

I've a mixed opinion here.
While I agree it would be better if it was at a tiny cost or free.
A strong plus is it's not just like a toy but really educational too.

Anything that helps with diabetes education, which sadly a lot of people I've found dismiss diabetes as nothing much to worry about, is a really good and positive step.

Diabetes can be extremely dangerous if it's not managed really strictly.

[Mystic Mock]

Yeah… crazy !!

I still don’t understand why they put Ariana Grande in a blonde wig when it clearly makes her look washed out !


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I think that Ariana Grande is having personal issues at the minute.

Which I think is showing in her physical health unfortunately.

[Zizu]

I think that Ariana Grande is having personal issues at the minute.

Which I think is showing in her physical health unfortunately.


She was a beautiful looking young woman not too long ago and now she’s as skinny as hell and the blonde look washes her out


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[rusticgal]

I can't believe that I'm the one that's going to ask this.

But why is Barbie not blonde?


Its more about being Brunette these days...She's moving with the times :laugh:

[Cherie]

Launched by Kate Moss's daughter I believe

[Livia]

I'm waiting for Morbidly Obese Barbie and Toothless Heroine Addict Barbie, add to my collection. Make it really inclusive.

[Maru]

It would make more sense to have the diabetic thingy be separate, but if these are limited run then those collector people will have something else to do... or it'll just be another thing that adds to a landfill.

[Mystic Mock]

Its more about being Brunette these days...She's moving with the times :laugh:

:laugh:

Brunettes are great.

But Barbie's character is basically meant to look like Britney Spears imo.:laugh:

[Benjamin]

I'm waiting for Morbidly Obese Barbie and Toothless Heroine Addict Barbie, add to my collection. Make it really inclusive.

Ahh toothless heroine addict Barbie. That’s one for the collection!

[BBXX]

If this makes a kid with T1D feel good then nothing else matters. Very cool idea.

[Livia]

Ahh toothless heroine addict Barbie. That’s one for the collection!

I actually do collect Barbies. It's one of my guilty pleasures, like liking the band Blue. My favourite, although not particularly rare, Barbie and Ken as Mulder & Scully.

[Crimson Dynamo]

What this Barbie does is make certain adults feel good and has nothing to do with kids or diabetics

A shameless virtue-signaling marketing ploy

[Benjamin]

I actually do collect Barbies. It's one of my guilty pleasures, like liking the band Blue. My favourite, although not particularly rare, Barbie and Ken as Mulder & Scully.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed for those other Barbie’s then for your collection!

And Blue, I’m not one to judge, my guilty pleasure is cheeky girls :laugh:

[Mystic Mock]

I’ll keep my fingers crossed for those other Barbie’s then for your collection!

And Blue, I’m not one to judge, my guilty pleasure is cheeky girls :laugh:

One of my favourite songs is Crazy Frog's Axel F song.:joker:

[Mystic Mock]

She was a beautiful looking young woman not too long ago and now she’s as skinny as hell and the blonde look washes her out


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Hopefully she'll get the help that she needs.

[BBXX]

What this Barbie does is make certain adults feel good and has nothing to do with kids or diabetics

A shameless virtue-signaling marketing ploy

I cannot imagine being so miserable and cynical about literally everything. It must be exhausting. Are you able to explain how recognising an T1D in a doll is virtue-signalling?

At the very least this will be a great thing for kids with Type 1 diabetes from an educational POV, as a way to remind and help them monitor their own diabetes and health, like they do with their Barbie, as well as educate their friends and normalise it so they feel less different to their peers.

The fact some people in this thread are comparing T1D to obesity and drugs is ****ing bizarre. They need the education this doll will provide, which is embarrassing for them as it's for children... :laugh:

The new Barbie has been designed in partnership with the global type 1 diabetes not-for-profit Breakthrough T1D. The doll wears a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) on her arm to help manage her condition, and to keep it in place she uses (Barbie pink) heart-shaped medical tape. Barbie also carries a mobile phone with a CGM app to help track her blood sugar levels throughout the day.

[Ammi]

…it isn’t any kind of signalling, it can be very distressing for a child to receive the diagnosis and have to learn a diet control that doesn’t impact any of their peers in any type of similar way and to also have to learn to carry out their injections and learn how their ‘highs and lows’ will impact their body and how important it is that they relay immediately when they feel changes …this Barbie is helping them to realise and process that it’s not just them, ‘that Barbie can feel those things too’, as other children do…

…the only thing that I do feel or wish, though…is that she could be given free to those diagnosed children as it can be hugely expensive for a family to provide the diet required for their child…especially on low incomes…so maybe provided free for low income families would be a plan….

[Mystic Mock]

Personally I don't see the issue with Diabetic Barbie.

If you want to call it virtue-signalling, then it's pretty tame one imo.

But I will reiterate my point, Barbie needs to be blonde.:joker:

Every other industry needs more brunettes and redheads.:laugh:

[Livia]

I wonder what kids did before they were shown how to feel by a giant toy manufacturer? I wonder how they were able to cope with their feelings before Mattel made a doll for them? Kids are resilient and strong. Anyone who thinks Mattel is acting for the good of the kids and not to a) make money, and b) raise their own profile, is dreaming.

[Niamh.]

I wonder what kids did before they were shown how to feel by a giant toy manufacturer? I wonder how they were able to cope with their feelings before Mattel made a doll for them? Kids are resilient and strong. Anyone who thinks Mattel is acting for the good of the kids and not to a) make money, and b) raise their own profile, is dreaming.

Of course that's why they're doing it, however I don't actually see the issue with the doll either, end of the day it will either sell or it won't and they'll discontinue it if it's not selling for them :shrug:

[BBXX]

Of course that's why they're doing it, however I don't actually see the issue with the doll either, end of the day it will either sell or it won't and they'll discontinue it if it's not selling for them :shrug:

Indeed. Matell is doing it to make money, and it also might make kids feel better about being represented in doll form. Both can be true.

I will never understand people who complain about things that are literally not doing any harm to anyone.

[arista]

…I mean, she could be used to help children to understand their type 1 diagnosis but it wouldn’t be good for any parents/families to have to purchase her, she should be given to them for free as diet requirements are expensive enough and a strain on a family…


Councils
Would need a Discount.

[Livia]

Of course that's why they're doing it, however I don't actually see the issue with the doll either, end of the day it will either sell or it won't and they'll discontinue it if it's not selling for them :shrug:

I think it's a cynical, money-making ploy that tells kids, hey, you're different! I reckon it will have been a really short run of these dolls and not something that will continue because it will not be economically viable, even though there will always be diabetic kids.

[Niamh.]

I think it's a cynical, money-making ploy that tells kids, hey, you're different! I reckon it will have been a really short run of these dolls and not something that will continue because it will not be economically viable, even though there will always be diabetic kids.

I mean yeah of course they're doing it to make money but again I don't see the harm, if a kid has diabetes it's not like they don't know that and feel a bit different from their friends sometimes because they have to take meds etc, imo the doll is just normalising that a bit more, like if they had Barbie in a wheelchair (which i think they probably have done) and they have definitely had hospital barbie sets etc

[Livia]

I mean yeah of course they're doing it to make money but again I don't see the harm, if a kid has diabetes it's not like they don't know that and feel a bit different from their friends sometimes because they have to take meds etc, imo the doll is just normalising that a bit more, like if they had Barbie in a wheelchair (which i think they probably have done) and they have definitely had hospital barbie sets etc

What's different about a kid with diabetes? Nothing, except the meds they take and the food they eat. If Mattel was giving 10% of the profits to a diabetic charity I wouldn't think it was so very cynical. Yes there is a wheelchair Barbie and I have no problem with it. It probably helps kids with visible disabilities. Diabetes though? Any Barbie could be diabetic Barbie.

[Niamh.]

What's different about a kid with diabetes? Nothing, except the meds they take and the food they eat. If Mattel was giving 10% of the profits to a diabetic charity I wouldn't think it was so very cynical. Yes there is a wheelchair Barbie and I have no problem with it. It probably helps kids with visible disabilities. Diabetes though? Any Barbie could be diabetic Barbie.

Again no idea what the harm in it is. All barbies are there to make money for Mattell :shrug:

[BBXX]

What's different about a kid with diabetes? Nothing, except the meds they take and the food they eat. If Mattel was giving 10% of the profits to a diabetic charity I wouldn't think it was so very cynical. Yes there is a wheelchair Barbie and I have no problem with it. It probably helps kids with visible disabilities. Diabetes though? Any Barbie could be diabetic Barbie.

I've read a lot of responses from people with T1D who are super happy with this.

I don't think you're being cynical in suggesting this is to make money, of course it is, but two things can be true at once: it can make money and it can make kids feel better about an illness they have.

T1D is visible to the person with T1D even if they hide wearable monitors electronic apps hidden from outsiders and is it visible on this Barbie?

[Livia]

Again no idea what the harm in it is. All barbies are there to make money for Mattell :shrug:

It's just my opinion. If someone wants to buy one that's their business.

[Niamh.]

It's just my opinion. If someone wants to buy one that's their business.

fair enough

[Crimson Dynamo]

Again no idea what the harm in it is. All barbies are there to make money for Mattell :shrug:


Its just annoying that they pretend its for some altruistic reason and as you say its just to make them money and look good

But we can still call them out on it

[Glenn.]

Triggered by a Barbie. I thought this place had stooped to its lowest :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Triggered by a Barbie. I thought this place had stooped to its lowest :laugh:

I think using a kids diabetes doll to have a swipe at members is a few degrees lower....

:spin:

[Glenn.]

I think using a kids diabetes doll to have a swipe at members is a few degrees lower....

:spin:


Whatever helps you sleep at night big man

[Livia]

Glenn making his usual contribution to a thread.

[Glenn.]

Moaning about a kids toy? I’m sure that’s exactly the contribution this forum needs.

[Livia]

Moaning about a kids toy? I’m sure that’s exactly the contribution this forum needs.

It's surely not for you to vet threads so they meet your strange criteria. It's certainly not for you to insult other members as your one and only contribution. But it's not wholly surprising.

[Glenn.]

Oh don’t flatter yourself, Livia. You’re acting like I burst into the thread swinging a machete when all I did was point out how ridiculous it is to be this emotionally disturbed by a doll. If that rattles you, maybe log off and have a juice box.

And let’s not pretend this forum is some sacred intellectual ground. Half the threads are people arguing over rainbow benches and whatever else theyve been told to be angry about. Calm down.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Half the threads are people arguing over rainbow benches and whatever else theyve been told to be angry about. Calm down.

Number of threads made this year about "rainbow benches" = ONE

Number of posts that Glen made in that thread = 51



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[Glenn.]

That wasn’t arguing hun, that was stating fact.

[Glenn.]

We’ll just add Diabetes Barbie to the long list of things that trigger the snowflakes :thumbs:

[Mystic Mock]

I wonder what kids did before they were shown how to feel by a giant toy manufacturer? I wonder how they were able to cope with their feelings before Mattel made a doll for them? Kids are resilient and strong. Anyone who thinks Mattel is acting for the good of the kids and not to a) make money, and b) raise their own profile, is dreaming.

Oh, the company is being performative imo.

It's just is it really a big deal in this particular case?

[Mystic Mock]

Again no idea what the harm in it is. All barbies are there to make money for Mattell :shrug:

We need Goth Barbie.:dance:

[Niamh.]

We need Goth Barbie.:dance:

That'd be cool, or Grunge barbie for a special 90's edition :p

[Crimson Dynamo]

this Barbie made £300,000

https://www.canturi.com/blogs/news/barbie-by-stefano-canturi

[Mystic Mock]

That'd be cool, or Grunge barbie for a special 90's edition :p

I'm up for both.:dance:

Country Barbie wouldn't be too bad either.

[Livia]

this Barbie made £300,000

https://www.canturi.com/blogs/news/barbie-by-stefano-canturi

Nice that fabulously wealthy kids can have a Barbie that makes them feel represented.......