Monday, May 3, 2010

Kinky

Before reading it, I thought poem should be difficult to understand. However, Kinky is like casual essay in a poem form. Although it's still kind of hard for me to understand all of them, I can understand most. That's far better than I thought. :)
It's my first time read poems about Barbie. The poems I read before were about love, environment, and other noble stuffs. Barbie is just a toy(to me),which I never had one because I preferred Transformer toys better when I was young...
Although I'm not a fan of Barbie, I still like those poems, they are vivid. I can imagine the scene when I was reading it. When I read about "she could come from Japan, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, or Korea. The little girl who plays with her can decide", I saw the scene that two girls arguing about what country does the Barbie come from. One might prefer Japan, the other might prefer China. Guys may never understand why girls argue about such "boring" stuff, because they don't understand how important it is. If the Barbie comes from Japan, she can wear Kimono sometimes, but if she comes from China, she might need to wear Qipao instead. It's different culture. When we play with dolls, we are serious about it. We will fit the doll into a typical kind of culture and treat it like a human being. The author did that too. In her poems, Barbie is not only a doll, she is also a human, sometimes a woman and sometimes a girl. Because she is a human, she also have emotion. I was impressed by "Bisexual Barbie". The author was so thoughtful, she created all kinds of Barbie, made it like real world. Why can't Barbie be a lesbian? If she is a female, then there is some possibility that she could become a lesbian. Just because we never thought that Barbie will like woman instead of man, doesn't mean she can be so.
I think Kinky is very humanistic, because in Kinky, Barbie can be anybody. She can be a lesbian, or a girl fell in love with her brother,or an Antichrist girl. Kinky is also sort of feminist, because Barbie began to be aware of her body and she was not the girl that everyone want her to be. She can be the girl she wants to be. The girl who don't like difficult math class, or the girl who needs a therapy. She's not the girl only stands for sexy, grace beautiful, and skinny, but also the girl stands for all the other girls. I like realistic Barbie more than the traditional one because she can share my feeling now, not like the old days when I saw her and thought:"It might be the right time for me to keep fit."
Well, I do have a question: Barbie is considered to be a underage girl's toy, but the author wrote so many "adults contents", so who are the target reader of Kinky?

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