So over on Roosh Valizadeh’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Return of Kings blog a gentleman named Blair Naso has penned a weird paean to Barbie (the doll, not the Nazi war criminal), suggesting that she is a perfect “inspiration” for girls today.
I suppose it isn’t all that shocking that the kind of men who frequent Return of Kings would be fond of an imaginary woman who doesn’t talk and can’t defend herself.
Naso starts off his post by ridiculing feminists for criticizing Barbie. In his mind, they’re just jealous:
For feminists, what bothers them is that Barbie is beautiful. Feminism is an ugly ideology that overtly seeks to glorify both inner and outer ugliness. …To them, Barbie represents a vile standard of beauty.
In Naso’s mind, Barbie is both a Nietzschean Übermensch (no, really) and the embodiment of a Greek goddess.
Barbie is an over-man to little girls. She transcends reality and inspires admiration. Like Theseus for the ancients and Batman for today’s boys, Barbie goes beyond what a normal person can do. Barbie is not a standard; she is an ideal. She inspires aspiration, not imitation. Barbie is the modern Aphrodite.
Here’s a famous statue of Aphrodite from back in the day. Despite being, you know, a literal goddess, her proportions are a bit more human than Barbie’s.
Naso really seems to have a thing for Barbie:
If characters like Indiana Jones are the apex of masculinity, then Barbie is the same for femininity. She is beautiful, intelligent, domestic, social, gorgeous, hard-working, wealthy, attractive, outgoing, healthy, confident, pretty, talented, lovely, has great tits and hair, accomplished, alluring, charming, elegant, unblemished, graceful, and committed to only one man.
Apparently Naso, like Barbie herself, hasn’t caught on to the blindingly obvious fact that Ken is gay. Also, what about Allan, Brad, Curtis, Todd, Steven, Darren, Derek, Kurt and Ryan? Everyone knows that Barbie is riding the smooth flat crotch area carousel.
As Naso sees it, it’s men, not women, who are the real victims of our “fascist beauty standards.”
Men have to grow muscle, which is a journey that is painful, expensive, and filled with misinformation. And if he’s under six feet tall, his chances with women are drastically cut no matter what his other characteristics.
Women on the other hand have to buy an exercise video and keep their hair long. I suppose make-up can be time-consuming, but fashion is not nearly as expensive as women like to claim.
And if some women develop eating disorders trying to live up to the beauty ideal, well, they have no one but their own inferior female selves to blame.
It would be both mentally and physically unhealthy for a man to obsess about achieving the impossible body of Beowulf. So if Barbie and Aphrodite inspire women to turn to unhealthy practices (like eating disorders or fad diets) in a way that He-man doesn’t to men, then what does that say about women?
Either it is a lie that strict beauty standards cause women to obsess at the risk of their own health, or it is manifest that women are mentally and emotionally inferior to men.
Anyone who really wants to be a hottie needs to work for it.
Both anorexia and fat pride are shortcut cheats to beauty. Mature adults achieve what they want through hard work.
Naso does acknowledge that beauty standards are more “stringent” today. In a spectacularly ludicrous leap of logic — the intellectual equivalent of Evel Knievel’s famously failed jump over the Snake River canyon — he blames this on … ugly women.
My guess why beauty standards are a little more demanding today than they were 100 years ago is because today women are ugly. They are overweight, they have bad hair, they lack social grace, and they think hideous products are fashionable by sole virtue of their popularity. Women and little girls know this instinctually and over-correct through their fantasies.
Perhaps little girls love Barbie and Ariel so much because they see how frumpy mommy and their teachers at school are.
And it is the evil feminists who are keeping these little girls from living out their over-corrected fantasies dreams.
Women just want to be beautiful and have a beautiful life. Barbie gives them the inspiration to achieve their dreams. Then feminism sweeps along and tells them to remain stagnant.
In case anyone here needs inspiration, this song should help.
Looking at these Barbies, especially the pop culture and costume collections, I find that they are actually pretty cool. And I say that as a manly man who loves shooter games and action movies.
Check an mate (the millionth time), MRAs.
Although there are about half a million Ireland, France and Italy costumes.
@ParadoxicalIntention and Bodycrimes,
I wonder if JB is aware of the fact numerous people, probably including David, know her real identity, and in consequence, a lot of information about her husband and family? The only reason it hasn’t gone viral or been used against her is because the people she excoriates and libels are actually better than her.
That Salo business is pathetic, is that really the worst they can dredge up?
Re: Barbie. I never liked the doll as a child, she just seemed lame to me. I’m not that bothered by her now, as people have pointed out, she does promote a lot of positive messages. I just wish she didn’t have those ridiculous proportions. If that’s Naso’s feminine ideal, he’s going to spend his life very disappointed.
This honestly does seem like something a literal fascist would write about his perfect woman. Also Barbie as the übermensch you say? She is the Madness, and is also Fabulous!
Oh and I don’t get the comparison to Aphrodite, Barbie was designed by a human being to meet an impossible beauty standard, if anything she more resembles Galatea conceptually.
i <3 this comment.
Also, grey hair on men = ‘Distinguished Gentleman’. Grey hair on a woman = ‘Passed It’
Which is exactly why there is a gender disparity in suicides. more males commit or attempt suicide than females because the patriarchy says ‘real men don’t cry’ and ‘women are so emotional, urgh’ which leads to males hiding how they feel, to avoid being told they are ‘like a girl’.
I don’t know if anyone has posted about this doll before me but I read a post on facebook about Lammily dolls which are designed to be in proportion with the average female. The designer also created stickers to allow the dolls to have stretch marks, zits and cellulite. The comments on Facebok were digusting, unsurprisingly, with people ranting about how Barbie is ‘an angel’ and ‘completely perfect’ and a ‘fabulous role model’ and that the Lammily dolls were gross, fat, disgusting and should be ‘burned for teaching girls its okay to be fat.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/19/normal-barbie-lammily-doll_n_6146394.html
I think that that ‘Japanese’ Ken looks like Ben Affleck!
I never liked Barbie – must have been because I was jealous.
He is another dickwad who has a moan about how hard it is for ‘short’ men to date. Seriously, a man under 6′ ‘struggles’ because he is not tall enough? Yes, we all understand that being taller than average is advantageous, as is being ‘beautiful’, slim, light skinned etc etc, but to complain about being nearly 2″ above average height! Do the evil wimminz really give men who are under 6′ a terrible time? I think it is probably yet another way to complain that it is it is NOT their fault, rather than ANY flaw in their character or attitude.
I’m starting to think Return of Kings is just a prolonged and elaborate joke. No one can really think like that.
Or I hope no one could.
“Wish” might be more accurate.
I would really love if these guys will make a huge collection of Barbie dolls and leave the real women alone. Please, guys, stick to the plastic dolls! The world will become a better place if you do so.
And I wonder what they think about Valeria Lukyanova who is seen as the “human Barbie doll”. I believe that she actually is the woman of their dreams: http://www.gq.com/women/photos/201404/valeria-lukyanova-human-barbie-doll
potterchik – I will not give the site anymore traffic, but recently I got into a ‘debate’ with someone about the more offensive articles. Apparently they are clickbait and ‘satire’. I told him they are poor satire and left it there as it is clear from some of the comments that some very nasty types read ROK and do not see it as satire at all.
At best it is extreme trolling. I find it extraordinarily juvenile, rather like a teen saying that they are a Satanist to piss of mum and dad.
Elllesar: I don’t believe anyone who tries to pass off sexist offensive material as “satire”. It’s the same as trying to label it “humour”. Lads mags in the UK tried to pull the “it’s irony! It’s satire!” thing when they got called out on their sexual objectification of women, and dehumanizing articles, but when according to a study nobody can tell what you’ve published from what convicted rapists say, well you can’t really pull the satire card now can you.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2011/dec/09/lad-mags-rapists-study
Japanese Ken, or Last Samurai Tom Cruise?
It is truly a joke worth whipping dead.
Awwww……puddin. =] So many sweet, sweet, douchebro tears.
Thanks David. That was great.
“Ladies are mean, ugly and inferior! I hate everything about them! Wah! Wah! Why won’t anybody date me?” – Naso
Cry moar, Nasshole.
No woman anywhere wants to spring your babyman boner for you. No woman anywhere cares if you are impressed. Your opinion does not inform any woman’s decisions. Paddle back into obscurity on a river of tears.
@snorkmaiden: are you talking about the vliet tiptree piece about judgybitch?
@steampunked–
YAY IT IS NOT JUST ME. Any video I see her on, I always wait for the background to feature collectable kitten plates instead of whatever bedsheet-of-the-week she uses.
Also, guilty admittance–I roleplayed on a Harry Potter lit-based/nerdy writer RPG for about forever, and there was one character there who was a fancy-pants lady-mclady and used a lot of JudgyOne-isms–the no-as-question and stuff. I kind of always read her writing as that character, too, which makes me laaaaaaugh because I am a Dorky McNerdpants.
Did anybody else collect these? I loved them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls
Shit. Wrong link. Lemme try again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Girl_and_the_Guardians_of_the_Gemstones
Though, I like the other golden Girls very much too. :p
Her mostly-woman supporting cast and the various descriptions are awesome. I don’t remember seeing any of her toys.
I have three so far.
That whole article with Nasshole basically whining
“Men have to be musclur and tall! Wah! Such standards that we have to live by! Wah! Women, why won’t you be pretty, skinny, domestic, hardworking, wear whatever I want you to wear, smile, stay with one man, have long hair, look young and just be perfect goddesses!?” Wah! Wah! Wah!
Hyprocrisy and shallowness in one breath. Doosh and his fan boys including Nashole need to shut up… Forever. They seriously have no clue about us and what we go through.
I’m actually worried because I have extremely long hair it’s past my knees. I don’t want to be hit on by these creeps!
http://youtu.be/WWaLxFIVX1s
I love Barbies! I love dolls, period! I still have them ever since I was a baby.
That Japanese ken doll
http://data2.whicdn.com/images/44469380/thumb.gif
I thought these dolls are very beautiful
http://www.eluts.com/index.php
They have the very eyes for which the phrase “limpid pools” was coined.
Those dolls are like three-dimensional Keanes.
http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/12/12/3e63e618-282a-4c92-a2bb-a85fc7df7756/resize/620×465/51e8ddba2ad435bf431682cb74beb5ea/keane-big-eyes-gallery-03.jpg
@Fruitloopsie “I’m actually worried because I have extremely long hair it’s past my knees. I don’t want to be hit on by these creeps!”
You could dye it, I hear that’s like their kryptonite.