CNN.com - Barbie creator, Mattel founder Handler dies - April 28, 2002

Now here's someone who has something to answer for.

"My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to be," Handler wrote in a 1994 autobiography. "Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices."

Yeah, as long as she was blond, blue-eyed, and had a great body.