If she'd had Growing Up Skipper (long off the market by the time she was old enough to appreciate it), or perhaps if her teachers did, the whole incident could have been avoided. and a controversial Growing Up Skipper doll was created to demonstrate. The faculty were projecting their own perceptions onto her nubile young body, the sick freaks. (1) 1 product ratings - Vintage 1967 Growing Up Skipper Doll Barbie Mattel 7259 Hong Kong Working Tested. Skipper Roberts is a doll created by Mattel in 1964 to be Barbies younger sister.
Now, the outfit was more modest than what at least some of her schoolmates were wearing that very day. Her attire, her teachers felt, was a little too mature for a junior high school student. With a flick of Skippers arm, the package says, her young owner can make the doll grow slim and tall and curvythe result of what a spokesman for Mattel, which manufacturers. Someone I know has told me the story of being called into the principal's office to be queried about her home life. I suppose (again, never having been a prepubescent girl) geeklizzard isn't wrong to say that menstruation is more disruptive, if nothing else, than bigger tits, but the visible bodily changes can be traumatic too. A friend, a year younger than I, says she had one of these growing up.įor actual women, I imagine, it was a way to experience the phenomenon at a remove, as it were. Maybe it's because I'm a man that I found this disturbing when I first learned of it-after all, I never had to deal with my own breasts growing, and the ensuing change in how I was regarded by my peers (actually, my breasts did grow, but I digress).