Is Barbies new video camera implant going to impact her relationship with Ken?
The “Barbie Video Girl” comes with a video camera hidden in her necklace. She is capable of recording video that can be uploaded to a computer for editing and then be distributed to the world.
How will this cyborg implant effect Barbies social life? Will it damage her relationship with Ken? Will to hurt, or enhance, her love life?
These are burning questions that are confounding experts and society at large.
Psychologists specializing in relationships, meeting at a conference in Switzerland, expressed growing concern that this intrusive technology could impact Barbies social relationships, specifically with Ken.
Dr. Fritz Frankenfutzer, a leading authority on inanimate psychology, says, “Barbie exhibited overly controlling tendencies before the implant. She was always picking Ken’s clothing, making him attend events no real man would go to, and forcing him to spend far too much time at tea parties in the playhouse.”
Dr. Frankenfutzer’s primary concern is the camera implant would heighten Barbies controlling tendencies to an unhealthy level.
“What do you mean I didn’t tell you to take out the garbage, Ken. Watch the video of me telling you, you worthless piece of …”
The ability to selectively edit her video will give Barbie unprecedented abilities to manipulate and control Ken, a tendency that had already risen to near pathological proportions.
It has been suggested that giving Ken a video implant might even the power dynamics within the relationship.
Dr. Frankenfutzers disagrees.
“With Ken’s weak ego structure, and being as sexually repressed as he is, giving him a video implant could lead to serious relationship problems. Peer pressure from G.I. Joe, and other testosterone driven action figures, could pressure Ken into making ‘inappropriate’ videos that could damage the wholesomeness of the brand.”.
The wholesomeness of the Barbie and Ken brand is everything, and anything that could damage it is totally unacceptable.
This is obviously a problem with ramifications that go beyond the corporate board room. It has serious ramifications for society at large.
What do you think should be done?