Mattel sent The Body Shop a cease-and-desist
order, demanding to pull the self-esteem posters featuring Ruby -
a rubenesque anti-Barbie
- from American shop windows, because she was insulting to the
real Barbie. Then, in Hong Kong, posters of Ruby were banned on
the Mass Transit Railway because authorities said that in her nude
(albeit nippleless and pubic-hair-free) condition, she would offend
passengers. One shop in the US was forced to take down a Ruby poster
after a mall patron said his daughter had been traumatized by seeing
it.
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