The economic cost of gendered toys

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It would take a lot of systematic Barbie exposure to do lasting damage, I think.

True enough.

That said: from the Barbie.com website's list of interesting facts - they're listing achievements, but I've cherry picked the really worrying bits

1 Barbie doll is sold every three seconds somewhere in the world

90 percent of girls ages 3-10 who own at least one Barbie doll ( I don't know if this is supposed to be worldwide, but have seen this cited before where it specified America

125 million+ Barbie DVD’s have been purchased since 2001

On average, a Barbie movie is watched 10 times

Girls ages 3-6 own an average of 12 Barbie dolls

Barbie is the No. 1 doll property in the US and the No. 1 worldwide property in the traditional toy industry

http://www.barbiemedia.com/barbie_fa...e-numbers.html