Mattel has introduced its first Barbie doll with representing someone with Type 1 diabetes. The doll, part of the Fashionistas line, includes realistic medical accessories like a continuous glucose monitor and an insulin pump — as well as an outfit that pays homage to diabetes awareness.
This new doll “enables more children to see themselves reflected in Barbie,” Mattel wrote
A broad DCCT (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial) study conducted in the United States, with a population of people living with Type 1 diabetes, established that intensive insulin-based treatments (pump or at least three insulin injections per day, with a view to returning blood sugar levels to a normal range) which allowed for better control over blood sugar levels, had also caused an average weight gain of 4.8 kg compared with traditional treatments (a maximum of two insulin injections per day and broader blood sugar targets).
I have a friend with T1 that used to skip meals to stay skinny after switching to a pump caused weight gain that couldn’t be exercised off. This is what young girls do.
They’re on a crusade against insulin pumps because their friend’s disordered eating habits were triggered by weight gain from an insuline pump. This ignores the fact that people without insuline pumps also develop eating disorders, diabulimia has been a thing for decades.
If they’re going to continue trying to be relevent to combat declining sales “inclusive”, they can’t be making unrealistic dolls, especially when their whole mantra is a source of women’s weight issues in society.
And this ain’t their first rodeo of making insulting versions of people in an effort to market themselves as inclusive. There are so, so, so many Barbies that show a company has no idea what they’re doing but will sell anything out to flog a buck.
In the context of what I was saying, everything. If you were just sprinkling random facts to random comments, then nothing. Because what you said had nothing to do with what I said. Maybe you were just responding to the wrong comment all along, haven’t realised yet, and have gotten confused.
They’re inconvenient, but much better than a few years ago. Having an app for the monitor now is a game-changer to avoid people hearing a self-destruct countdown beep under your shirt. But one of my friends actually still prefers shots three times a day, You just kind of get used to that if it’s all you’ve ever known, so for some people it’s not as big a deal as others make it out to be.
So with that out of the way, you may have replied to a comment mentioning insulin pumps, but what do they have to do with the post, anymore than the doll’s hair colour?
Type 1 is something you’re born with. Type 2 is not exclusively from overeating.
in fact i have never seen someone with type 1 diabetes who wasn’t explicitly underweight because they have to count carbs or die
Thanks, Captain.
I have a friend with T1 that used to skip meals to stay skinny after switching to a pump caused weight gain that couldn’t be exercised off. This is what young girls do.
Are you a Mattel employee?
What are you talking about? Are you saying that Type 1 causes eating disorders? What does that have to do with what I was saying?
They’re on a crusade against insulin pumps because their friend’s disordered eating habits were triggered by weight gain from an insuline pump. This ignores the fact that people without insuline pumps also develop eating disorders, diabulimia has been a thing for decades.
Huh. That’s an interesting position. Thanks for the explanation.
No.
The topic is about Barbie.
If they’re going to continue trying to be
relevent to combat declining sales“inclusive”, they can’t be making unrealistic dolls, especially when their whole mantra is a source of women’s weight issues in society.And this ain’t their first rodeo of making insulting versions of people in an effort to market themselves as inclusive. There are so, so, so many Barbies that show a company has no idea what they’re doing but will sell anything out to flog a buck.
In the context of what I was saying, everything. If you were just sprinkling random facts to random comments, then nothing. Because what you said had nothing to do with what I said. Maybe you were just responding to the wrong comment all along, haven’t realised yet, and have gotten confused.
is your criticism that you oppose insulin pumps?
How could someone’s mind possibly extract that from anything I’ve said, or are you just trying to be a troll?
the post i replied to there was only about insulin pumps. what do you think about insulin pumps?
They pump insulin.
They’re inconvenient, but much better than a few years ago. Having an app for the monitor now is a game-changer to avoid people hearing a self-destruct countdown beep under your shirt. But one of my friends actually still prefers shots three times a day, You just kind of get used to that if it’s all you’ve ever known, so for some people it’s not as big a deal as others make it out to be.
So with that out of the way, you may have replied to a comment mentioning insulin pumps, but what do they have to do with the post, anymore than the doll’s hair colour?