Barbie Doll Reversal

The feminist’s views of Barbie Doll are a sharp observation of what over expectation can do to a child’s life. The role however can be flipped easily. The title would have to be named after Jackson Katz’s book Tough Guise. There is a façade that young men put on because of outside influence. Whether or not it comes from family, peers, or society it has been imposed on men for decades. Real men never cry, show weakness, and must be strong. This is what the world has stapled to the body of man.
“[A]nd presented dolls that did pee-pee / and miniature GE stoves and irons / and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.”(Piercy l. 2-4) The imagery of the man version would be equal and opposite. The boys would get big toy guns and big toy trucks and big toy war machines. Everything would be big, bigger, and biggest. That is what being a man is about in the world: violence, killing, ruthless competition. The diction, however, would be wildly different. The words word be short, because we are all dumb, ruthless, knuckle-dragging cavemen. The vocabulary would have rougher sounds: war, kill, death, hurt, and beat. All of these short, to the point, and easily yelled from the top of a mountain. But how would it end?
In contrast, Barbie Doll ended quite differently than the man version. “So she cut off her nose and her legs / and offered them up.”(l. 17-18) In the male adaptation, the speaker would go on a rampage through a jungle killing every other soldier that made fun of the size of his penis.
While this is a satirist description, bordering on sarcasm. This is a truth, sadly, that happens daily. Men are getting the same, but opposite, forced down there throats. “Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls.”