It has already been whacked off.
Posted on 06/20/2017 12:50:08 PM PDT by drewh
CBS Local– Mattel, the makers of the famous Barbie and Ken dolls, decided to shake up the Ken doll’s previous image. Typically he’d be portrayed as a “nice guy,” as Mattel put it, with wavy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. He would have had hardly an ounce of body fat if scaled onto a real human.
He’s the guy Barbie would take home to mom to compliment her pot roast and taste in cardigans. But he’s vanilla no more: Mattel has released a line of 15 new and improved Ken dolls.
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Diverse beyond just their ethnicity, these new Kens come in all shapes, sizes and haircuts. One even has a man bun. A tank top is involved. They’re meant to better depict Ken to mirror this generation.
“By continuing to expand our product line, we are redefining what a Barbie or Ken doll looks like to this generation,” Lisa McKnight, Barbie’s senior vice president and general manager, said in a press release. “Evolving Ken was a natural evolution for the brand and allows girls to further personalize the role they want him to play in Barbie’s world.”
Ken used to be an afterthought and a man that was just the aforementioned “nice guy” to have alongside Barbie. After all, she needed a groom for the weddings, someone in the passenger seat of the Barbie dream car, and an audience for all those snappy outfits.
“In the past Ken was really viewed as more of an accessory in Barbie’s world, to support the narrative of whatever was happening with the girls,” said Michael Shore, Mattel’s head of global consumer insights, via GQ.
Now, Ken is his own man with a persona of his own and is finally ready to step out from behind Barbie’s picture-perfect shadow.
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Yeah, that one pinged my Gaydar, too. If I had kids they would only be allowed GI Joe’s.
That’s roughly the gist of the joke ... put a little bit more crassly ...
Based on other news today, perhaps the FBI is handing out these new Ken dolls in the agency’s safe spaces.
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.
It has already been whacked off.
Do they sell a Barbie doll that was a Ken doll at one time?
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.
Yeah cause the old Ken was the vision of manliness.
Feminism has DESTROYED the human race.
You know white Barbie never had a baby because Ken came in another box
Leni
Her: I’m big-boned.
Him: Thank Heaven for that — Regular bones would snap like twigs carrying all that weight around.
Don't know what you stick-in-the-muds are grumblin' about, I looked cool as hell. :)
I find man buns loathsome
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Me too, unless it’s worn by John Snow..:)
Ken couldn't compete with that.
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.
Cultural appropriation!
The one on the right looks like Obama Ken.
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