In case you were wondering...
Mattel is evil. (kid_lit_fan, I doubt this is news to you.)
Well, having just finished Toy Monster by Jerry Oppenheimer, he certainly makes a good case for that belief. It's a history of the company from the viewpoint of the people who ran the place (or were hugely influential in its running), and, well, wow. From "the father of Barbie" who was a womanizing swinger (married at one time to Zsa Zsa Gabor), to Jill Barad, who proved female executives could be as brilliant, ambitious, petty and paranoid as male executives to the current exec whose basic belief is "we have lawyers for that, and anyway, I've got a huge (executive) package", it's interesting reading.
They really don't care about you, or your kids, or their employees. They care about themselves in a way that's more commonly associated with such noble corporations as BP or Haliburton.
Online reviews are always interesting to read - I found it amusing to see the same (negative) review cut and pasted on Amazon and GoodReads. Anyway, some folks have issue with the style and the journalism; I had no problem with the prose, and even if it's not 100% accurate as claimed, I suspect there's more truth in there than falsehood.
Well, having just finished Toy Monster by Jerry Oppenheimer, he certainly makes a good case for that belief. It's a history of the company from the viewpoint of the people who ran the place (or were hugely influential in its running), and, well, wow. From "the father of Barbie" who was a womanizing swinger (married at one time to Zsa Zsa Gabor), to Jill Barad, who proved female executives could be as brilliant, ambitious, petty and paranoid as male executives to the current exec whose basic belief is "we have lawyers for that, and anyway, I've got a huge (executive) package", it's interesting reading.
They really don't care about you, or your kids, or their employees. They care about themselves in a way that's more commonly associated with such noble corporations as BP or Haliburton.
Online reviews are always interesting to read - I found it amusing to see the same (negative) review cut and pasted on Amazon and GoodReads. Anyway, some folks have issue with the style and the journalism; I had no problem with the prose, and even if it's not 100% accurate as claimed, I suspect there's more truth in there than falsehood.