"Analyzing the dolls of elite girls shows that playthings reinforced gendered expectations but also allowed for imaginative play."
"Barbie dolls tend to get a bad rap. Critics rebuke them for promoting harmful body standards and other sexist tropes in the minds of young children."
Except for the millions of girls who like playing with them?
"But some scholars note that the dolls also allow for versatile, wide-ranging play, because of their lack of prescriptive narratives. Despite their faults, Barbies can become anything—or anyone—the child wants them to be."
Some Scholars ?
We are now attributing 'Kids Like Toys And Have Imagination' to the narrow testament of scholarship?
"These toys carried strong messages about girls’ expected roles in society. Like modern Barbies, they mirrored the body ideals of Roman times, in this case small breasts and wide hips. Because they resembled adult women, they were likely intended to help young girls contemplate their future as wives and mothers."
So dolls aren't 'toys'?
They are just fascist propaganda?
If they are 'long and thin' they reinforce 'Evil Gender Stereotypes'?
But if they have wider hips and more 'body natural' they reinforce 'Evil Gender Stereotypes'?
The doll makers were regrouped by the 'Domninus Cultural Senate of Men' led by 'Claudius Mansplainus' to make sure they made evil dolls for conformity?
Or is it perhaps 'many girls like dressing up and being pretty and Barbie is a doll some girls like' ... and 'ancient girls also liked playing with dolls, representatives of older women who they aspired to be'?
And that despite 2000 years of advancing knowledge, we still have not figured out how to see basic truths through a wall of ideological noise?
Did they miss the most important point and how 'Ancient Dolls related to Trump's disgusting Tweets'?
This was painful to read and the scholarship was lost.
What is 'remarkable' about the toy is that it seems to reflect almost perfectly the aspirations of people in similar situations today.
The 'dolls' really aren't that far off Barbie, and probably represent in young ladies most of the same social artifacts and aspirations.