I don't get people who blame Barbie specifically for reinforcing beauty standards and unrealistic body types like it was somehow worse than every other thing reinforcing negative body image for little girls.

Barbie didn't make me feel bad about myself, it was actresses, singers, and models on magazine covers. It was the captions about their secrets to the "perfect" body. It was a size 4 actress in a sitcom getting made fun of for her weight. It was every cartoon character being skinny unless their weight was the butt of a joke. It was Disney princesses and episodes of Arthur. It was my mom telling me at the age of 8 how I needed to buy clothes that would hide my tummy.

Without Barbie we wouldn't have other dolls like her- Bratz, My Scene, etc- and that isn't nothing. Those were bad influences on me too, and it is part of the problem. But Barbie specifically being singled out as "ruining girls' body image" and "setting feminism back decades" feels like it diminishes how prevalent that is in EVERYTHING we're exposed to as children.