I like rhetoric. (For the life of me I didn't know how to incorporate this word in)

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, you could only ever in your wildest dreams have a body so out of proportion that you would fall flat on your face every time you tried to stand up. Well, Jesus Christ Hallelujah! Turn that dream into a reality with the new and improved plastic surgery *For only $9.95 + shipping and handling*! With the technology we have today, everyone can have a "thirty-nine-inch bust and a twenty-three-inch waist"! (Prager 354).
Exhibit A:

Barbie dolls are basically pink elephants. A human being wouldn't naturally have a Barbie-like figure, like how an elephant wouldn't naturally have pink colored skin, they both are extreme abnormalities. The only difference is that Barbies have been socially accepted (this acceptance is dying as we begin to realize Barbie's strong influence). It's quite interesting that despite Barbie dolls being extremely unnatural, we - at a glance - view them as nothing but ordinary, even natural-looking. In this regard, how do Barbie dolls look normal but pink elephants do not? Barbie dolls have become so popular around the world that we have subconsciously accepted them as the go-to for describing the ideal look for women, even though it's so clearly unrealistic.
Can we really blame Barbie dolls for influencing women across the world to strive to have large breasts and small waists? It seems like the problem lies in us, as a human race, because of the way we define what's hot and what's not. If we, as a society, found pink elephants attractive, wouldn't we strive to genetically engineer pink elephants to our heart's content?

I like rhetoric.