Meet the New Wave of More ‘Diverse’ Barbie Dolls
The “Fashionista” line now boasts 176 dolls with nine body types, 35 skin tones and 94 hairstyles. (Mattel)
More than six decades after Mattel first began manufacturing its signature line of fashion dolls, Barbie still receives regular revamps. Her latest makeover? Another upswing in diversity, as the manufacturer expands the brand’s repertoire of skin tones, hair types, body shapes and disabilities in hopes of better reflecting the children who play with its products.
The newest additions, unveiled on Tuesday, include dolls with bald heads; gold prosthetic limbs; and vitiligo, a condition that makes patches of skin lose color. As advertised on its website, Mattel has now declared Barbie “the most diverse doll line” on the market.
Per the Independent’s Sarah Young, the company’s goal is to “redefine what it means to be a Barbie or look like Barbie.”
Let me guess…. The New Ken Doll lost his package and wears a dress and make-up. Sheesh……
Ken is now a trannie that has no dick. Barbie used to be a beautiful White blond chick with incredible tits. Now “she” is a transgender whatever the fuck that has had about $50K worth of reconstructive surgery that attempts to give her what Ken used to have. Next they’ll tell us that Gay Bob was never a Batty Boy at all but was a SF Trooper on an undercover assignment somewhere in Buttfuckistan.
Ken never had a dick, dummy. Barbie didn’t have nipples, either. That could change. They could put a dick on Barbie if they really want to be “inclusive”.
I know! How about we fashion a Barbie doll that can BECOME a Ken doll?
Apparently a vagina is just a dick turned inside out, so we ought to be able to come up with something… like a reversible vest.
Which reminds me, while I’m here, MC… my son introduced me to Alan Watts lectures and I gotta tell you, I’m not much of a Zen Buddhist follower, but his tone and reasoning are very calming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CmgzjJMzTY
My situation with my stepson is better… I am trying to teach my jabbering monkey mind (as the lecture describes) to shut up and listen to God.
I think Ken is the one in the tie-dye shirt 2nd from left in the pic above.
I thought so, too, but I read a bit more and found there’s a whole line of “Ken.”
I think that is Bi-Barbie you are olging. LOL
And most of these wretched creations will remain on the shelf. Get woke, go broke.
“will remain on the shelf”\
might want to buy a set and put them in a secure location so some future archeologist can find the proof that “yes, america really did get this bad ….”
Imagine your kids finding that set after you die and wondering What the Hell?
heh. be careful what your kids find ….
wheres trailer trash barbie?
don’t say nothing about a mirror beaner
She used to be called “Nascar Barbie” then Nascar went uptown and nobody will let trailer trash Barbie in the race track.
What her packaging says: “This Barbie now comes with a stroller and infant doll. Optional accessories include a GED and bus pass. Gangsta Ken and his 1979 Caddy were available, but are now very difficult to find since the addition of the infant.”
It’s one thing to recognize that San Antonio has a teenage pregnancy problem, but it’s another thing to acknowledge it in doll form. There’s enough blatant racism in this edition that I’m glad that whoever created this didn’t use Teresa.
Nascar Barbie, “pride intact”, is dirt track-in it. This is a compliment by the way.
Given the lack of anything “down there” on both Barbie and Ken (and GI Joe), these folks missed a great opportunity to push the “gender fluid” argument a long time ago.
Now Ken and Barbie will come with interchangeable parts like a Mr. Potatohead doll.
And to meet the needs of the growing homeless population, there will be a new “dream house” made out of cardboard boxes and shopping cart pieces.
And let’s not forget that throwback from the late 80s:
Et tu, Mr. Lib? Hasn’t Bob P suffered enough?
I told them I wanted the doll named Fag Bob, but would they listen?
We had an exercise area (once called my living room) in Oklahoma and we had Kick Bob set up along with some other Tae Kwon Do equipment for sparring.
I regret selling Bob. I loved kicking the shit out of him. My Barbie dolls tended to be a bit scratched up. Sometimes legless… I guess I needed Wheelchair Barbie.
so the bald one is cancer barbie ….
Actually, with the big hoop earings, unless she is part black or latin, many would call her “culturally-appropriating, chemo barbie.”
Mr. Liberty? She reminds me of the creature in Splice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQRMf_CIuvU
And, to spoil it for you? She turns into a male at the end and rapes her own “mother.”
Hollywood is creepy people.
.
I borrowed my sister’s Ken doll when I was a kid, hung it up on a clothes line, and used it for target practice with with a pellet gun. I wouldn’t treat the new one so nicely.
I don’t even want to know what they have done with G.I. Joe..
Let’s go see!
https://images.app.goo.gl/hpr2Py3XnAhRjyCeA
I shouldn’t have had to have seen that..Oh, my Holy God..
sorry
What her packaging says: “This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans two sizes too small, a NASCAR T-shirt and Tweety Bird tattoo on her shoulder. She has a six-pack of Bud Light and a Hank Williams Jr. CD set. She can spit over 5 feet and kick mullett-haired Ken’s butt when she is drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a confederate flag bumper sicker absolutely free.”
I bet the Chinese who make these things are laughing their ass off. They’re probably saying amongst themselves, “Wait until we run the world, and then we’ll make only one model- the one with the slant eyes!”
remember that chinese emperor who was buried with an entire army of life-size clay soldiers? they’re all different, apparently modeled after his actual soldiers. each one copied in clay to accompany the emperor in the afterlife. with modern tech probably could do that with dolls for each and every citizen of china.
but we round-eyes probably wouldn’t be able to tell them apart ….
This is so great! I’m so excited that Mattel has the money to create an entire line of toys kids don’t want, won’t ask for, and won’t be playing with.
“Hey, Mom! Can I have a Barbie in a wheelchair?” Said no kid anywhere anytime ever.
The Barbie section of the toystore is going to make Star Wars look popular in comparison.
An old friend of mine is a nurse who lost her leg in a car accident two years ago.
I’m going to order pegleg Barbie for her!
(laughing) that’s awesome.
I almost added you and gilberts to the lexicon I just submitted but decided I had to draw the line somewhere. Which reminds me of the most disgusting joke I ever read in penthouse forum.
I’m still wondering if wheat’s will have a caitlyn jenner edition on the box for the collectors? Or did my not giving a crap miss it?