The parable in this poem is saying that women are killing themselves (literally and, more often, figuratively) in order to look more like Barbie dolls.
In the poem, the girl is a perfectly normal girl, but then people start telling her she's too fat (or her legs are) etc, because she doesn't look like some version of perfection. This leads her to become very insecure and eventually kill herself.
The poem is most likely recent because concern about women and body image issues have only become prominent in the last 30 years or so. Barbie has been around for about 50 years, but people didn't worry about her much before the '70s.
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