BARBIE DOLL: BY MARGE PIERCY
"This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and minature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said you have a great big nose and fat legs."
"She was healhy, tested intelligent, posessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing.
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs."
She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle. Her good nature wore out like a fan belt."
"So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up.
In the casket she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on,
a turned-up puty nose, dressd in a pink and white nightie."
Doesnt she look pretty? everyone said.
Consumption at last.
To every woman a happy ending."
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