Christian Louboutin thinks Barbie has "cankles"
Photograph credit: "Excessive," from the amazing Sara Heart Bacon.
Christian Louboutin is set to release Barbies made over with his stylings over the coming months, but the luxury shoe designer "reshaped the dolls' figures," as he didn't find their existing shapes appealing.
A Louboutin spokesperson said, "He found her ankles were too fat."
Charming.
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Christian Louboutin needs a new hobby or something.
oh, for god's sake !!! EVEN BARBIE ISN'T SAFE FROM CRITICISM!!!
All of us might as well give up and wear burqas to cover our bodies, then these jerks won't have to deal with looking at us!
Dear Christian Louboutin,
Barbie doesn't have ankles because she doesn't have bones. Her skinny legs taper down to even skinnier, impossibly tiny tippie-toe feet. And there is no planet on which any of those parts could be considered "fat".
Love and kisses,
roseored
P.S. Fuck you.
You put "cankles" in quotes, but it doesn't seem to be used in the original comment.
Even if it's not in the article (I can't read it on this comp), the quotes are still being used correctly.
I put them in quotes because validating the notion of "cankles" without scare quotes is a little too much for me to deal with.
Thanks for making it easy for me to never, ever buy your shoes, Christian! (Not that I would ever spend a month's rent on shoes in the first place, but, you know, in case I win the lottery or something.)
I think there is harm in perpetuating a word like "cankle". Laboutin didn't even USE it, and here we are looking at it nonetheless. We can choose to use words that we don't like, and help incorporate them into our children's vocabularies; or we can help to eradicate them by not ever writing or saying them.
You must name them to offer criticism, perhaps, but it's not always necessary - such as in this article.
I buy my shoes at Ross, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and at some department stores anyways. I do not need to waste money on his misogynistic, sizist, overrated shoes, when I could spend it all on some coveted books and DVD's! I'm Through!!
Look on the bright side: Barbie's plastic surgery will be quite easy, considering she's made out of plastic.
This stuff just makes me want to die. What is the point of even living in this world, where no matter what you look like, you'll never have any admiration or belonging? All I care about in life is loving and being loved, but everyone else's priorities are so screwed up, I don't think there is any place for me.
I doubt that any guy who's actually interested in women has ever judged them on their ankles. Chris sees women as scaffolding to hang his art from.
Starling put it best: http://kateharding.net/2009/10/13/quick-hit-fat-barbie/#comment-115935
It's not just about ankles. It's about the fact that every time sexism gets a leg chopped off, it grows another arm. Sometimes it feels as though men will never stop judging women on their appearance, and beauty ideals will always morph into something inaccessible to 99.99% of the population.
Oh yeah, another thing on young girls' body to feel ashamed about.
Um, it could be that her feet are just too small...making the ankles look unreasonably big...?