Hips like Cinderella: Stereotypes in Fairytales

Stereotypes and not so subliminal messages! When you think of your childhood these are not words that spring to mind. How about deception, conformity and subversion? As malicious as these may sound, the truth is that throughout the world, societies and parents put all of the above into practice in a desperate attempt to assert some form of control. How, I hear you ask, are these devilish methods of trickery and command being employed? The …

…that we secretly hold in such high esteem. <Tab/>The average woman is 5'4" high. Our plastic Cinderella, Barbie is 6". The average women weights 145lbs, Barbie 101 lbs. Her bust size is 39", the average women 36". The average women's is a size 13, yet Barbie squeezes into a baggy size 4. Miss Average also has 42" hips. Synthetic Cinderella has 33" hips. With gravity defying proportions like that, its no wonder we all want hips like Cinderella...