Barbiefication

English 2023 August 21 Etymology From en Barbie tall, slender female fashion doll fication suffix denoting the process of becoming something. Pronunciation en /ˌbɑːbifɪˈkeɪʃən/ /-bɪ-/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Barbiefication.wav Southern England en /ˌbɑɹbifɪˈkeɪʃən/ /-bɪ/ GA en eɪʃən 5 en Barb ie fi cat ion Noun - en derogatory A cultural move toward superficiality and a focus on physical attractiveness at the expense of depth and intellect. en Adweek: Western Advertising News Los Angeles, Calif. A/S/M Communications July 1995 36 C-16 1 0199-2864 320542773 On the road toward Barbiefication, we are so taken by artificially plastic standards of beauty that we surgically alter our human characteristics to look like idealized dolls. en The Bangladesh Journal of American Studies Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh Journal of American Studies 1996 9–10 71 18320571 While the Barbiefication of women of the world is serious business (all puns intended), I want to add that I have seen evidence that the globalization of Barbie has been met with resistance. en Susan Hopkins Girl Power and Popstars: From Madonna to the Spice Girls Girl Heroes: The New Force in Popular Culture Annandale, N.S.W. Pluto Press Australia 13 November 1998 2002 22 https://archive.org/details/girlheroesnewfor0000hopk/page/22/mode/1up 978-1-86403-157-7 The official recognition enjoyed by [Geri] Halliwell supposedly marked the ‘Barbiefication of Britain’ and the triumph of superficial ‘plastic’ values. Quoting Mary Riddell Mary Riddell Geri Halliwell May Appeal to Six Year Old Girls, but that Doesn’t Make Her the Right Person to Relaunch the Women‘s Unit New Statesman London New Statesman Ltd. 13 November 1998 127 17 10 1364-7431 185357433. en Philip Melling Race and Promiscuity: Millennial Ministry and the Legacy of Ham Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion Chicago, Ill. w:Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1999 footnote 1 74 https://archive.org/details/fundamentalismin0000mell_s7c1/page/74/mode/1up 978-1-57958-261-6 Where Alexander Lebed identifies the enemy of Russian culture as the soap opera, Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski attributes the erosion of Baltic culture to ‘Barbification’ and cultural imports such as dolls, comic strips and cable TV. en Charles de Chassiron The Re-emergence of National Cultures following Independence in the Baltic States https://books.google.com/books?id=Ce6G9Kyc56gC&pg=PT97 Peter I. Barta The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series 44 Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2013 978-0-415-59237-6 The Estonian poet-politician Jaan Kaplinski has criticised his fellow citizens for their heedless consumerism and what he called the ‘Barbiefication’ of society – a phenomenon that he considers to be more dangerous even than Bolshevism. en Linda Rogers; et al. Nurselogs Mother, the Verb, Swan Sister Treasure Book Altona, Mb. w:Friesens 2022 67 https://books.google.com/books?id=el9lEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 978-1-03-912454-7 [W]e must now resist anachronistic legislation and the Barbification of young women, the saddest phenomenon being the identical non-identifiable missing photos of girls and women surgically and cosmetically altered to resemble dolls. Alternative forms en Barbification Translations cultural move towards superficiality and a focus on physical attractiveness Finnish: fi pinnallistuminen becoming (more) superficial Macedonian: mk по́вршност f Further reading Barbie en eponyms en Barbie