K-Lo over at NRO just posted a nice window into the future of Western Culture.  Notwithstanding the one in the middle would be beaten within an inch of life, be set on fire, or have acid splashed on her face for wearing what appears to be make-up.  And didn’t the husbands, fathers, or dominant brothers tell those other two not to wear such bright colors thereby attracting attention to themselves; it’s scandalous.  The one in orange is giving me those “come hither” eyes, I swear–evil temptress!

Actual strumpets and trollops aside, this must be a sick joke on Mattel’s part.  The appeal of these toys to any little girl (okay, fine, I’ll admit that as a kid of about 8 I played with my sister’s barbie dolls, once… .. ….okay twice.  You finished–can we move on now?) has got to be minimal at best, since mankind was dressing themselves in patchwork animal skins in the neolithic era there are records of adornments and beautifications.  There was a certain plant that Native American women used to rub the leaves of on their cheeks because it enhanced the reddish hue to them, a form of blush.  This form of covering is nothing more than the outward act of propriety attempting to depose the inward virtue of chastity.  The big social show in place of the quiet confidence.  I think the Islamic nations are the only ones still on the planet that kill people for breaking propriety, and certainly the only ones still stoning women for being loose with their virtue, so to speak.  This carries both a blessing and a curse, especially in that culture.  The blessing being that in theory there are fewer sluts making babies that have to raise themselves and grow up to mug elderly folk on the subway.  The curse being that in practice we have the best example of how law can’t make perfect the flesh (if you’ll permit a “idolaters” reference to Jesus–or rather a Pauline reference to Jesus–not preaching, God forbid!  Can’t be a serious thinking person and mention Jesus these days, for the love of Christ.  Oops! Did it again.  No I’m not quoting Britney Spears.)

I don’t know what the lesson is here, except that another bit of Western culture bites the dust.  “But Church–,” you say, “who gives a damn about Barbie?”  I would agree, but this toy, in itself there is nothing wrong with it except for what it represents, an ideology that our kids (or at least those in Europe) now have to deal with as part of their immediate world.  If it were something as simple as a woman walking down the street wearing hardly a scrap of clothing we might be able to teach those children observing the world around them about the respect and decency of a heart not wanting to attract such base attentions.  On the other side there are those women wearing scratchy wool blankets for dresses that knock on your door every Sunday–kooky, irritating, but otherwise harmless (i.e. they don’t have a gigantic religious network behind them trying to impose a new legal system foreign to our own).  Then there are those who with their dress represent an ideology that at its core practice is oppressive of women, just to name one gender.  It’s oppressive to men in many ways as well, mostly in violence and the paying of taxes for international jihad–so basically when they pay zakat they might be funding silent or violent revolution.

We’ve got enough talk of revolution in this country with the Marxist and Globalist agenda’s for America.  No more revolution here, we’re all full up at the moment.