In a Barbie world

We're all familiar with feminism and its ups and downs as it has affected our society immensely. In class we were reading a piece called "Our Barbies, Ourselves" which talks bout the sexualisation of a female and how Barbie is just a physical embodiment of what a man would like a woman to look like. 

Now a lot of people question what feminism really is and its motives. 

Could it be that for the past many years we've al been living in a 'Barbie world' trying to be like Barbie; trying to be what a man wants us to be, instead of being ourself? Isn't that what feminism is about? Not having to impress anyone and just learning to love oneself with all their prefections and flaws. 

I think we're all recently stepping out of the fog of the spell casted over us by a plastic doll that is considered 'perfect' when really it is unrealistic, impractical and in the words of the author 'almost masculine'