Man Who Photographs Naked Barbie With Kitchen Appliances Gets $1.8 Million

[matcom]

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AN artist who photographs undressed Barbie dolls with kitchen equipment as a comment on the subservient role of women has been awarded legal fees of $US 1.8 million ($2.5 million) after toymaker Mattel lost a five-year legal attempt to stop him.

Utah artist Tom Forsythe photographed 78 mostly naked Barbie dolls in kitchen ovens, under food-mixers and bathing in Martini glasses in a series of amusing yet disturbing images he calls "Barbie's power as a beauty myth".

Forsythe, 46, believes the dolls instil "gender-oppressive values" in girls.

"Some of these images I made overtly sexual to take Barbie completely out of the context Mattel intends," he said. "I thought the pictures needed something that really said crass consumerism, and to me that's Barbie."

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9992559%255E13762,00.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. This guy's from Utah!

If he had been from California, we'd be hearing from FOX News about those looney liberals on the west coast.

[sam sarrha]

2. Barbie was fashioned after Norwegian blow up sex doll,thus the proportion

so complaining about the sexual content is sorta strange:loveya: