Hello ‘new Barbie’. ?

BlueBelle

Well she just looks like a barbie doll to me she has boobs long blonde hair a little waist and long shapely legs
Am I missing a point what is transgender about her ???

I had a black doll late 40 s early 50 s I can’t remember what I called her but she was a favourite and went everywhere with me

Here is the person that the doll represents. This person has boobs long blonde hair a little waist and long shapely legs.

The point is that Mattel have marketed a Barbie doll that represents a trans person. That's it.

Sorry if this post is too joyless for some of our posters to read.

We are always being told on here that it is impossible to tell transwomen apart from women, and that TransWomen Are Women, so I'm not sure why a special Barbie is necessary. If that were the case, why wouldn't any old Barbie do?

Maybe in years to come it will be a collector's item, representing the years when people claimed not to know what a woman was? There are already Barbies to represent other landmarks in women's history. I'm surprised that Stonewall didn't stamp on those in the same way they did with the Oxfam game that highlighted female icons, but maybe the dolls came out before their ideas had such a firm grip.

The main reservation I have about the Barbie is that I would worry that a child of doll-playing-with age is going to be too immature to be considering transitioning. I am very uneasy about the age of some of the children getting involved in all of this, and wonder how many would think of it themselves if not influenced by adults who have bought into the Stonewall agenda.

I had a black doll in the 1950s.
As for Barbie dolls , I can't bear them.
Refused to buy them for my children.

Well she just looks like a barbie doll to me she has boobs long blonde hair a little waist and long shapely legs
Am I missing a point what is transgender about her ???

I had a black doll late 40 s early 50 s I can’t remember what I called her but she was a favourite and went everywhere with me

Urmstongran I think your 45th reunion “Barbie” is modelled on Divine, an American actor/drag queen.
I’m another Barbie hater, just expensive plastic tat imo.
My black dolls were always my favourite, how I wish I’d kept them. Mind you, that applies to a great many of my childhood toys. Thankfully, I still have lots of my books.

Unless, of course, they are making them talking Barbie's that run around shouting a lot, wearing black outfits and masks.

Ninja Barbie!

As a child, I preferred Sindy. My daughter, and granddaughter, weren't interested in either lol

But, as neither Action Man or Barbie had genitals, I can't see what "transgender" dolls can bring to the party. ??

Unless, of course, they are making them talking Barbie's that run around shouting a lot, wearing black outfits and masks..?

Terribull there was, last century, a truly strange member of the truly strange wealthy Morgan family of Newport, South Wales, who decided that she was a bird.
In her home, in London's Eaton Square , she had a nest, and a beak, made by a jeweller.
A caller might be greeted by a maid to be told that madam was unavailable, as she was sitting on her nest.
Clearly, a woman ahead of her time!

As many of you know, my ex is trans (this happened many years after we split up!) and I really can't see what exactly they were modelling this on !
Please, for heavens sake I hope he doesn't see that and use it as inspiration !!!!
Surely this isn't Transgender, it's Transvestite ????

Now Chewbacca what are you doing with my look-a-like, complete with my pearls ???

That was a blast from the past grannynannywanny! I remember it well!

I loved my Tressy, I also had Sindy and her little sister Patch who was a tomboy judging by the clothes available for her.

We should stick to vanilla subjects, only post vanilla questions and answers, such a jolly jape…

Or we could just ignore the fun sponges and carry on regardless!

Any Tressy owners remember this advert from the 60’s?

youtu.be/8PcrEoszvKY

Zoejory

Maybe Barbie is going out of date and they are just trying their best to keep relative.

I never liked her. Apart from her toes. I would chew them. The plastic was soft and terribly tempting back in the day. A bit like toothpaste caps. Loved those as well.

Another chewer! My DSis ate her way through a box of minibrix predecessor of lego.
When we found chewed bits she blamed the dog!

My son had an Action man Person, who had a parachute attached to their back and when they were thrown down our stairwell for 3 flights of stairs in our then house, they floated to the bottom, the Action Person that is, on his own, my son didn't go with him. Confusing when inanimate pieces of plastic can't be defined by the sex they were assigned at production birth

Well that’s us told

We should stick to vanilla subjects, only post vanilla questions and answers, such a jolly jape…

I'm sure that some people think its clever or funny to try to provoke other posters. And that ain't no joke.

Are you sure volver?

My granny always wore shoes with chunky heels. She told me her feet would no longer be able to cope with flat shoes.

Maybe Barbie is going out of date and they are just trying their best to keep relative.

I never liked her. Apart from her toes. I would chew them. The plastic was soft and terribly tempting back in the day. A bit like toothpaste caps. Loved those as well.

Chewbacca I had a Tressy. I was very upset when the key broke in the mechanism and her hair was left fully extended. However that situation didn’t continue for too long. My little brother thought he’d do me a favour and took the scissors and gave her a permanently short style!

I just thought a change of topic would be a nice change.
This made me laugh!

Grammaretto

It was the highheeled shaped feet that "got" me. Why?
At least action man had proper feet.
Is there an action girl/LGBT?

My auntie used to have feet like that; she was never without her heels on, ever.
By the time she was in her late 70s she could barely hobble

Never had a Barbie doll but I did have Tressy. She had a little key to put in her back so that you could adjust the length of her hair.