The Modern Evolution of Barbie and Ken (Page 2)
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What is this world coming too? Ken and Barbie should have remained right, by remaining white ;)
Some years ago, I had a feminist friend scold me for buying a Barbie doll for another friend's daughter. The kid asked for it, and I got it for her. She was overjoyed, but I was told that I fucked her head up for life by getting it for her.
You mean more humanly representative body images yes thats true
as usual, Asian female but no Asian male
According to a descriptive, the Ken in the yellow and black plaid shirt is "a beefy Asian man with 20/40 vision who frequently works out of doors."
doesn't look like an Asian man to me
Ah, but what does an Asian man look like specifically? Not all Asians for example are pale skinned, or have a certain eye, are are a certain height or body type. There is such a variety in how an Asian male or female looks to where it is almost impossible to say "this" is how an Asian person should look.
The company has made it clear that with their new dolls going forward, to vibe with the times, one race specific dolls are going to be less important in favor of more of an ambiguous look because so many children are now bi-racial. So they have skin tones from very pale to very dark, different face, and eye shapes, hair colors, etc, but no Asian or Hispanic doll. They do have the black dolls because it's kind of hard to say, that doll isn't black, looking at their skin tone, but again with the biracial vibes, there are plenty of dolls with differing skin tones to reflect children who aren't just black. I do know myself quite a few hispanics with blonde hair and blue eyes...
or with red hair, so it's not enough to say, well that white doll must exclusively be white. I have to praise the company for that thought process because it is true. There is such variety in people and what their make-up is, especially these days. But of course, just as before, they do release ethnic specific dolls in specialty lines which are more culturally specific.
they always make the Asian female dolls with straight black hair, very slanted in the eye area. easy to identify even in thumbnails.
Now they need to give body hair to the dolls :-p
Funny enough, every few years, they release a set of Ken dolls which kids can "shave" if they want to which are some of their highest sellers.
That's impressive, they should sell all the dolls barbie and ken with body hair... as that's how a normal human body is :-p
I personally am not for shaving,
I actually do not know of any doll line, female ones anyway, that sell dolls with body hair other than on their head even in countries where removing ones hair through shaving/waxing isn't as prevalent. Also from a practical standpoint, in order to make a doll like that, the only way it could happen would be to inject tiny hairs by hand (expensive/impractical) or do the molded color change water version of hair/no hair that they do with shaving ken.
Hair on a female doll just would not test well in American markets, and pretty much in most other markets either, and since this is still largely a profit driven business, you'd do better to just glue or draw hair on a doll, rather than wait to see it happen on a shelf in a store.
It will definitely make a huge loss for the shaving companies, and that's a huge business.
I mean if we didn't feel bad about body hair, certain people will be on the road.
yes :))) thats so hot
as now they said in uk no more barbie propaganda. let's make ugly dolls :)
I'll be honest. I find this somewhat silly.
Exactly! they should have kept the originals!
@Ironic_Pepe Yes indeed
Those white aryan barbies were awesome!
I personally only like the classic Barbie.
Good take. I like the changes they made.
Barbie and Ken suck now. She used to be hot.
Exactly! I want the white dolls back now!
More afro hair and ppl!
The new ones are looking really colourful, nice
They change it according to beauty standards
Yeah, Barbie has more of a rack now.
prefer the original and the best
white is right brother ;)
@Ironic_Pepe that's right!
I like the changes
I don't like Barbie
Nice Take
Thank you
I don't like toys