If Barbie is so Popular, Why do You Have to Buy Her Friends?

I would first like to say that all of this poetry analysis has made me completely cynical about everything. It all goes back to death in my book.

The irony behind all of this is that Barbies are supposed to be perfect, but even they become inferior in our minds eventually. Another unique technique in the poem is the parallelism between barbie's popularity and her playmate's life. This all leads to the ultimate female cliche: we're all beautiful. Atleast the poem goes about it in a sick and twisted way. As Barbie becomes less popular and gets mutilated, the playmate takes her own life because she can't take the scrutiny. The ultimate irony that I found is that Barbie is supposed to symbolize the perfect American Woman, but she completely destroyed the pubescent girl's life and is thus not an attainable goal. Happy go lucky Barbie is many a girl's nightmare.