Adios, Barbie.

That was the theme speaker Ophira Edut used Monday night while she addressed women’s issues – specifically body image.

Edut used the Barbie doll as an example, and she spoke about how it has had a heavy impact on the female body image.

“They should come out with transgender Barbie, formerly known as G.I. Joe,” Edut joked.

Edut published a book titled “Body Outlaws: Young Women Write about Image and Identity.” Edut said that a body outlaw is someone who lives outside of society’s norms and lives and dresses on their own terms.

“My mission is to encourage all of you to become a body outlaw,” Edut said.

Edut is also an astrologer for Teen People magazine and has worked for Ms. magazine. She considers herself to be a social entrepreneur, who is someone who starts their own unique ideas about social issues.

While in college, she and her colleagues formed a magazine called HUES (Hear Us Emerging Sisters), that started off as a class project. The magazine celebrated women by including many cultures and body sizes. The magazine is now defunct because of lack of financial resources.

Her work also has been featured in VIBE, Entertainment Weekly and Glamour.

An audience member said that it was ironic that she would work for mainstream magazines while having such strong objections to the media’s insistent ideal image of a what a woman should look like. Edut admitted that in order to change the system, you must work from within.

She also spoke about eating disorders, which she said were only a part of the problem. Dissatisfaction with one’s bodily features also have progressed in this society. Edut said that 80 percent of fourth grade girls interviewed have gone on diets because they think they do not meet the weight standard.

She pointed out that seven million people had plastic surgery in this country last year, and the majority of them were women. Edut said she encouraged people who want plastic surgery to consider seeking therapy because of the seriousness of the procedure.

She admitted that while eating disorders are a very important issue, body image is rarely addressed.

“Body image is feminism’s unfinished business,” she said.

Edut went on to read passages from her book that were about issues ranging from body hair to the big butt.

“The butt, it’s politics, it’s power,” she read from one of her books.

Halfway through her lecture, she passed out a questionnaire that asked about people who have criticized you and how they made you feel self-conscious. She picked a volunteer from the audience and turned the questionnaire into a mad lib.

To learn more about Edut and her books, go to www.adiosbarbie.com.