What was your most liked comment on social media?

Saw this like/share click bait post repeatedly doing the rounds on Facebook sometime ago, to which I replied with the following rant:

Whilst I'm all in favour of anything that brightens the day of somebody fighting cancer, especially a child, and think this is a lovely idea in concept, it does occur to me to be thoroughly impractical in actuality:

You see Barbie with no hair gets released, girls fighting cancer feel beautiful, great result, everyone's happy..... For a while.... Then a new 'like & share' Facebook post comes along, "Why's there no amputee Barbie? Don't amputees deserve to feel beautiful too?" Mattel then have the tough decision of whether to stand up and publicly say "Cancer sufferers have a Barbie because they are beautiful too, but not amputees, those damn no-limbers simply are fucking hideous and clearly not Barbie material, grow some fucking legs then we'll talk, losers." or, they also have to start to make amputee Barbie. Given even the most incompetent of marketing directors should be able to predict a bit of a PR backlash from option one, they take option two and Amputee Barbie gets released.

This then sets a precedent that all suffering children can get a corresponding Barbie to make them feel beautiful. Suddenly their are thousands of Barbies and people with less serious appearance concerns are feeling discriminated against, "Mummy all the girls in my class have a beautiful Barbie just like them; Annie AIDS has a skinny bald Barbie, wheelchair Wilma has a wheelchair Barbie, no-arms Nancy has a no-arms Barbie, but they don't make a birthmark Barbie, am I not beautiful enough to be a Barbie because of my mole? I'm ugly aren't I mummy? Is that why Mrs Conway's cat wee'd on me when I tried to pet it? Because it hated me for being ugly just like everyone else does?"

So out comes birthmark Barbie, then for the morbidly obese we need a Big-Fat-Barbie (I'm seeing some Barbie-Que pun advertising, with a "Big Fat Barbie lurve dem Burgers" tagline) then midget Barbie, then mono-brow Barbie, then webbed feet barbie, then outy belly button Barbie, then Spaniels ears for tits Barbie... the only logical conclusion to this is that each and every girl who wants to feel beautiful gets their own custom made mirror image Barbie. Perfect, Now every girl on the planet feels beautiful... except they don't, because none of them has ever seen a fucking Barbie, because the production costs of manufacturing singular unique dolls rather than generic production line ones have either bankrupt Mattel or forced the price of Barbies well outside of what 99.9% population would spend on a shitty doll.

So what you've done is, you haven't put a much needed smile back on the face of someone who truly deserves it, you've just murdered Barbie.

Got me close to 20 likes, it was a pretty special day.

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