Barbie Colony

The reading that took me most by surprise was The Barbie Murders in Mondo Barbie. The first thing that popped into my head when reading this entry was the Stepford Wives...a crazy clan/cult of women who strive for perfection and identicalness, although the reading was a bit more intense. Why did all of these people, both women and men, choose to go through the physical process of becoming a "barbie"? Why would they want to loose their name and identity to become someone whose life is planned out for them and exactly the same as so many others?

As quoted from the reading, " 'No you don't understand. It is true that this body had a name at one time. But it has been wiped from this one's mind. It would cause this one a great deal of pain to be reminded of it.' She stumbled verbally every time she said 'this one'. " Every person that joined this colony of barbies lost all previous identity and became part of a "one".

I found it interesting in the article that the barbies were referred to as she. Further along in the reading they discuss that the barbies have no genitals, just  an opening for the urethra and the anus. The genitals are either sewed up or removed which is absolutely insane. So why does the author of this piece keep referring to the barbies as "she"? They technically have no gender. Breasts with out nipples, are they really breasts?

Overall this reading was just so intriguing to me, the fact that there was a goddess barbie punishing all the other pervert barbies in the colony because they were sexually curious is idiotic. Even more idiotic is that all of the barbies were so similar and the same that there was no way to prove the killer. WHY on earth would anyone want to be a barbie? Embrace your individuality!!!