Mattel Gives Ken Doll A Makeover: Heavy-Set, Cornrows, Man Bun, 'Ethnically Diverse'

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[madison10]

Yeah, that one pinged my Gaydar, too. If I had kids they would only be allowed GI Joe’s.

[NorthMountain]

That’s roughly the gist of the joke ... put a little bit more crassly ...

[SERKIT]

Based on other news today, perhaps the FBI is handing out these new Ken dolls in the agency’s safe spaces.

[Yaelle]

Actually there are some chunky realistic barbies, and even the thin ones have less Ridiculous boobs now It seems too. I like this. My strong little girl will never be skinny. I don’t want her to think skinny is the only good shape to have. We have a variety of barbies. And it isn’t always easy to find dark haired dark eyed barbies.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Barbie has other options...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8QKK5IDSXE

[Slyfox]

It has already been whacked off.

[HarleyD]

Do they sell a Barbie doll that was a Ken doll at one time?

[alstewartfan]

It is clear that Barbie doesn’t want a REAL man any longer. No longer is he the macho Ken that *I* collected as a young boy. *cough* Now Barbie needs another WOMAN who looks like a man, just like Portia! Good for Mat “don’t ask, don’t” tel.

[discostu]

Yeah cause the old Ken was the vision of manliness.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Eye bleach:

[CivilWarBrewing]

The end result of a few generations of boys who have mothers as their father figures.

Feminism has DESTROYED the human race.

[al baby]

You know white Barbie never had a baby because Ken came in another box

[MinuteGal]

Ah, at last...a Pajama Boy doll!

Leni

[Bob]

Her: I’m big-boned.

Him: Thank Heaven for that — Regular bones would snap like twigs carrying all that weight around.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I rocked the "man bun" and beard a couple years ago when I was in college.

Don't know what you stick-in-the-muds are grumblin' about, I looked cool as hell. :)

[KittenClaws]

I find man buns loathsome
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Me too, unless it’s worn by John Snow..:)

[ponygirl]

My Barbies had a thing for bad boys. Joe had Kung-Fu grip and a motorcycle. And sometimes when he and Barbie had a date, he would show up at her beach house riding the wooden elephant my dad had brought back from Thailand.

Ken couldn't compete with that.

[bigtoona]

Our world is a non-stop skit on a comedy show! 8 Years ago, think about this, only EIGHT years ago we all would have laughed if someone told us about gay Ken dolls, white privilege, gender pronouns and a dozen other crazy things like this that we now encounter every day.

[xp38]

Cultural appropriation!

[Andy'smom]

The one on the right looks like Obama Ken.