Ken is gay

An art form/hobby referred to as Playscale Miniaturism often uses Barbie dolls to subvert traditional values. And clearly, no one cared about Earring Magic Barbie because Earring Magic Ken ended up turning into a gay icon and became one of Mattel’s most profitable dolls! This is nothing new. Lots of people said that, at 42, Gosling is simply too old to play Ken, while others lambasted this as ageist; writing in The Independent, Victoria Richards argued, “It’s time to do away with ageism and recognise that you don’t have to be below 25 to be beautiful.”

Already, the image has inspired scores of memes based on the simple premise that Ken looks, well, kind of gay.

This caused the Ken Doll to also be called,Cock Ring Bottom Ken.

Savage detailed the fashion statement the chrome metal ring made. The doll has a long history as a gay symbol, which stands to reason: minus a handle-bar moustache, he embodies the kind of beauty ideals that in the 70s and 80s would find you atop the sexual hierarchy of Fire Island.

One of their recurring gags was running fake adverts for ‘AIDS Barbie’ and ‘KS Ken’ (referring to Kaposi Sarcoma, a disease related to AIDS which caused visible skin lesions)’; the series featured  ‘AIDS Barbie’s New Malibu Dream Hospice’ and posters showing Ken hooked up to an oxygen tank. (The 8th annual Altered Barbie Exhibition arrives in San Francisco this fall.)

Back in the ’80s, The Barbie Liberation Organization switched the voice boxes of talking G.I.

Joe dolls with talking Barbies — and then returned them to the toy store shelves. In one scene, Barbie dresses up as Astronaut Ken for an espionage mission. Instead, Mattel hastily discontinued and recalled the product – despite the fact that, commercially speaking, it was a roaring success. The options were very simple: either Mattel gives Ken the boot or they improve him.

Earring Magic Ken became the best-selling Ken doll of the early 90s due to its showy element. The doll — part of the Palm Beach line — will be sporting a dashing jacquard-patterned jacket with a light pink polo shirt, crisp white pants — and a West Highland Terrier. Mattel had been manufacturing Barbie since 1959, and while she had always sold well, Ken – introduced a little while later – was something of a flop.

Like overzealous parents at their first PFLAG march, Mattel is releasing the Sugar Daddy Ken doll. Well as Bob Ross rightly said, “there are no mistakes, just happy accidents.”

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