Barbie's 50th -- a Burqa Barbie, auctioned to benefit Save the Children.
Listen, Mattel. You cannot pontificate about "choices for women" while hawking a doll wearing an article of clothing often compulsory under penalty of death. Well, I guess you can -- but then we can refuse to give you any of our money. And pay attention here -- ALL CULTURAL PRACTICES ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE SAME LEVEL OF ACCEPTANCE AND RESPECT.
If you think they are, then I eagerly await Suttee Barbie. Or Ken, with four Harem Barbies. Jihad Joe, with suicide belt. The multi-culti marketing possibilties are endless. See this, from The Peoples Cube.
Mattel Sponsors Genitally Mutilated Burqa Barbie Doll --
One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover -- wearing a burqa that fully covers an anaotomically correct body of a young genitally mutilated Muslim woman with an amputated clitoris and the labia majora stitched together with thorns and ligament of a hyena.