Rain Dove Dubilewski Instagram – What’s the genderless/all gender doll name they’d give to a Ken/Barbie hybrid?
Or are they all genderless? I love that Barbie and Ken just have universal smooth bumps under their pants and yet are both very clear on their identity and pronoun choice.
The world of Barbie was one I avoided growing up, yet felt compared to. I didn’t see myself or my closest friends represented by this very popular culture icon and didn’t give it a chance as a result. In fact, I was angry at it. Especially for how it culturally set a tone that fat bodies weren’t desired and that there were only two options of identity. Boy. Girl.
At McDonalds as a kid, on the rare opportunity that I went, they offered Barbie or Hot Wheels. I chose Hot Wheels every time. I didn’t need some piece of plastic reminding me that I wasn’t “ideal” by society.
However, over the past few years I got reintroduced to the world of Barbie. And while it has a lot of work to do, I have to say that I had missed all of the hard work the employees put into expanding out Barbies message world of friends to make it more inclusive. Conversations about body types, functioning, learning new things about new people- some of them were really high level things we all needed to hear.
What I took away from that was a reminder that people can change. And those people will change businesses. Politics. Schools. And communities. If we continue to share our stories and stick together- uplift messages of what we need- You be surprised at just how many others will expand as well.
#genderless #barbiethemovie #ken #lgbtqia #whatdoyouthink | Posted on 06/Apr/2023 03:20:16
