• more about #sexsymbols
    checkyaself: So wait a young Bardot is bad but a young Mean Fox is good? WOW. more »
    gertrudethegrand: it's a bit like the idolization of coco chanel when in fact, she rubbed elbows with nazis... more »
    prismatism is Team Bella: Is plastic surgery un-feminist? Is not getting plastic surgery a feminist act? I don't want anything done to myself now, and don't think I'd mind a ... more »
    roxythekiller: This is an interesting article. I like Bardot for her bluntness, even if I rarely agree with anything she says. Her heart is in the right place when i... more »
    napalmnacey is an angry feminist: They can wank over Bardot. I'll be over here, celebrating Jane Fonda. more »
    Thus Spake KATE!: i guess the only type of female empowerment that is really worth celebration is the sexual kind. im really glad we threw off centuries of oppression... more »
    Agumen: I have no problem with people being praised for their bodies as long as other people are being praised for their minds. So I have no problem with the ... more »
    Sputnik_Sweetheart: Very well said. It drives me nuts when women (cough, Jessica Simpson, cough, Paris Hiton, cough) talk about what an inspiration Bardot is for them, b... more »
    Highsmith: Not a fan. To me she always was & will be a spectacularly untalented bimbo. more »
    Aesop's Foibles. YES.: You shush. My mam's still got her vintage Barbies and they are AWESOME. You just know they were so cold-hearted and would smoke cigs in those holder t... more »
    gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy: Am I the only one who had Francie? Barbie's boobs scared the shit out of me, and Francie was more modestly built. Of course, it was the 70's and I was... more »
    Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: "The book says that young Ken "grew up embarrassed and humiliated by having an anatomically incorrect boy doll named after him . . . [with] no hint of... more »
    thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: For Christmas, my niece got gymnast barbies that you attach to a bar and they do flips. I played with it for 2 hours on Christmas. My niece couldn't... more »
    BorgQueen: So it never was "Adam and Steve." It was "Adam and Ken." Good to know Also I punked out all my Barbies at one time, ripping their clothes and giving t... more »
    Bunny_of_doom: I was a strange child. My doctor Barbie performed weird experiments on all the others. One of her more memorable experiments happened on the newest Ba... more »
    EdnasEdibles: My mom refused to buy me Ken dolls, perhaps because she knew that I would just make them have sex with Barbie. So I got an off-label barbie doll for a... more »
    scullymurphy: My Barbies got their hair done and went out on sexdates with my blonde and dark haired Ken dolls who were always George Michael and Andrew Ridgely fro... more »
    hfree: If you haven't already, you should all read "Forever Barbie". It's such a fascinating read. I think it's been updated since it's first printing as well. more »
    hydrogen_jukebox: All my Barbie storylines would be loosely based off of books I'd recently read. Needless to say, I had re-appropriated Jem and Scout as a Teen Skipper... more »
    PartyOfOne: As the years passed, Jack Ryan finally taught Barbie to bring him his slippers, pass for a princess (and a doctor, and a cowgirl, and an astronaut, an... more »
  • #iconography

    Brigitte Bardot 'Represents The Power Of Woman' (And Reactionary Craziness!)

    Look, Brigitte Bardot was stunning and all, and represented a certain kind of liberation. But, um, isn't she a little more complicated than that? More »
  • #barbieworld

    XXX! Sex Secrets Of Barbie And Ken

    As everyone has always suspected on some level, America's favorite fashion doll Barbie has a seriously sordid past. More »
  • #inbrief

    Cool Hand Paul: Thinking Woman's Sex Symbol