![]() In 1965, two friends for Skipper were added. Skipper is sometimes called Barbie Skipper because she is Barbies little sister. Hence the slogan on the box, Two dolls in. Rotate the doll’s left arm counterclockwise and the torso grew an inch and petite breasts sprouted on the rubber chest. ![]() ![]() 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. Skipper was a cute preteen with a wardrobe to match her glamorous big sis. Mattel decided in the mid-1970s that eight-year-old Skipper had to change and the new Growing Up Skipper doll, designed to bloom before its owner’s eyes, hit the market in 1975. The faculty were projecting their own perceptions onto her nubile young body, the sick freaks. 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. 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. Although the temptation is to pin the blame solely on the pandemic-induced plunge in passenger traffic, that would be to ignore the airline industry’s underlying and long. 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. The COVID-19 pandemic is entering its endemic stages in some parts of the world at the time of writing, and airlines hemorrhaged 168 billion in economic losses in 2020. 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).
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