This also shows that there was interaction between the communities and they most likely shared same cultural influences such as art and trade. ... The pronounced female formations depicted art and a symbol of fertility and productivity of society especially female gender. ... The Barbie doll was first unveiled in 1959, and she was the perfect role model for all women and girls, or so it appeared. Barbie was flawlessly skinny, had a perfect boyfriend and family members. Generally everything was perfect including hair, house, and friends among others. ...

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This perpetuates the notion that women are just prizes, and legitimate pieces of art. ... It is also interesting to note that these women always have the perfect or "ultimate" bodies; they are well toned, and have a small waist with large spherically rounded breasts. ... Females are subjected to images of women with the perfect body, the perfect skin, the perfect woman to the point that they might go to extremes to look like the women in the media. ...

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Many of these conventions were used in the Star Wars films, which was first released in 1977, which were seen by many writers as the traditional western narrative relocated to outer space with state of the art special effects added. In the 1980s, dystopias, the opposite of the utopian perfect' or idealized societies, were common, with Bladerunner, Brazil, which was released in 1985, and in various Robocop and Terminator type films. ...

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