"Barbie Doll"

The poem "The Barbie Doll" is difinitely a feminist perspective and to be taken into a masculine point of view the name should be "Have No Fear." Thinking about little girls and boys the first thing you think of a little girl playing with is a barbie and a little boy playing with a GI Joe. The Barbie Doll is used to represent the perfect woman; tall, thin, long hair, big eyes, and always happy. So what could represent the perfect man? The GI Joe with his strength, fit body, dedication and his ability to have no fear. Society sometime forgets that young boys tend to go through the same harrassments girls do at a young age. Toys are geared towards having children want to be just like the superheroes they play with. Yes boys are challenged with sports like activities, who is the best, the fastest, the strongest, but boys are also challenged with physical beauty too. Men are not to show emotions, only strength, and never show that you're afraid. To rephrase the poem changing the discription of the barbie doll to a GI Joe in the first stanza and leaving the second stanza changing only that he showed fear, emotions, or even that he was short for a guy, which seems to be quite a complex. In the third stanza he tries to prove himself but not with suicide but rather joining the army and dies as a soldier.