PARENTS REACT TO NEW BARBIE DOLL COMMERCIAL (Bonus #4)

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- (girl) You know, like the real
people in the world.

- Hmm.

- (Culmone) One is taller
than original Barbie.

- Hey.

- (Culmone) One is taller...
- Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I've read about this.

- (girl) This one looks like my mom.

- Aw.
- (girl) This one looks like

my friend Non.

- Barbie's still so influential.

- (man) ...our future looks like,

because this is what the world looks like.

- (girl) It's kind of...
- Very profound.

- (girl) ...cool to have
people look different.

- It's about time. It's about time.

- I read an article that
they were doing that.

I think that's a great thing
that they're doing.

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- (Finebros) So had you heard
about this before today?

- Yes.

- Yes, I did. I haven't
seen the commercial.

- Yes!

Our girls suffer a lot for their image,

and I think that's a very, very nice way

of, you know, getting
all ethnicities out there

so that kids feel more empowered.

- (Finebros) Do you wish that
you had one of these Barbie dolls

for yourself when you were a kid?

- I would've liked that blue-hair Barbie.

I would've played with her, for sure.

She and Ken would've gotten
into some crazy shenanigans.

- I wish I did. I wish I did,

because as I look at and compare
between me and my daughter,

my daughter has a way much
higher self-esteem than I am.

- (Finebros) Did you ever have issues
with the way Barbie looks?

- I was never a Barbie player.

I was sports and so I never
paid much mind to that.

- It's not realistic,
so there's always that.

But other than that,

it's just a doll.

I didn't expect to look like G.I. Joe.

- (Finebros) Were there Barbies
around your house growing up?

- No, I was an only child,
so no Barbies in my household.

- Just depends on where you are,

what kind of household you grew up in.

But we didn't have too many
Barbies in my household.

- (Finebros) What are
the biggest differences

between the dolls that existed
when you were younger

versus these new Barbies?

- Different ethnicities you can even see.

- They weren't that size double-zero
waist with a big top.

- Instead of the Barbies back then being

created as housewives, homemakers--

those types of jobs or tasks
that really didn't have them

going out in the workforce back then,

and now it's they can do anything.

- (Finebros) So this new line
of dolls is the result

of the Barbie being criticized
for a number of years

for producing what people have considered

an anatomically impossible
portrayal of women.

Do you remember people
always having problems

with the way she looks,
or is this a more recent thing?

- Well...

I wouldn't necessarily call it recent.

I think it's been out there for a while.

Just taken them some time
to address the situation.

- I remember in the '80s
is when they said,

"Okay, well, if Barbie were a real person,

height-wise, this is what
her measurements would be,"

and they were ridiculously off.

- (Finebros) So have your children
ever played with Barbie dolls?

- Yes.

- No.

The younger one, he has a toy
kitchen, and I'm fine with that.

- It wasn't something
I promoted in my household,

as far as with my kid,
'cause I didn't want them

to really use that as an image.

But they have cousins
that have stuff like that.

- She never had a Barbie doll.

Her American Girl doll--
it looked exactly like my daughter.

So she loved it, because that's her.

- (Finebros) What do you
think about the idea

that now your child would be able to play

with a Barbie doll
that has different looks?

- Well, I think it's great.

- It's amazing.

- Barbie was set up to be
the "perfect woman,"

and she's a blonde white girl.

There's not a lot of that out there.

- For it to just be present for her
and for it not to be like

she has to search or it's
something special-- it just is--

I think that is almost
more important than,

oh, here's a little Mexican girl.

No, here's just a girl.

- (Finebros) Finally,
do you think the Barbie doll

now having this new look signals a change

in the norms of society?

Or do you think that this
won't really make an impact?

- It could make an impact.

It's a good start.

- It'll have a small impact.

Barbie's doing it 'cause it's kinda PC.
It's politically correct.

But it is the right thing to do,
but it took so long.

- It will impact if only to
the sense that it does not.

(chuckles) It is there normal
as it should be.

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