Die Barbie, Die!

It would appear that children as young as 7 are turning against Barbie.
As a way of putting behind an aspect of your childhood, it seems as though Barbie can undergo various forms of mutilation ranging from "removing the hair to decapitation, burning, breaking and even microwaving."
I find it interesting that Bratz seem the cool alternative to Barbie. Edgier, certainly more ethnically diverse but as grossly deformed and hardly leading girls to aspire to winning Nobel Peace Prizes or being a geneticist.