Barbie Doll: Always Critique them to Death

 I really enjoyed this poem. I think it is rather symbolic and representative of how women are treated in the media. There is always something to criticize, or something a woman can do better. The female body is constantly being objectified and critiqued by everyone. The people who do this critiquing will always find something new to complain about, therefore you can never achieve perfection and they will never truly be satisfied. In today's society especially there is so much pressure put on our physical appearance, in light of social media there are so many expectations and examples of what other people think women should look like. This poem really focuses on that idea that people will always focus on your negative attributes. No matter what the girl in the poem did, she was always looked at as having a big nose and fat legs. All her other accomplishments were swept under the rug and ignored. Until she finally changed, and then died. Only then did her critics find her pretty. The poem ends with saying “to every woman a happy ending”, alluding that women will only truly be able to be happy in death.