Hello ‘new Barbie’. ?

FarNorth

How do you know about the two hearts?

We don't do jokes here Petera.

Farzanah

Is this thread just masquerading as a woke or transgender bashing opportunity I wonder?

Not by me It is light-hearted. Are we not safe from paranoia on any thread?

Nothing to see here, move along please.

Does that mean that the thread is now closed to any further discussion?

How do you know about the two hearts?

As well as having no visual sexual organs this Barbie has two hearts. What's the world coming to?

Anyone remember 'MyLife as an Animal'?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k3749

It turned out that being a successful human member of one group of dogs isn't a guarantee of the same with a different breed.

OK, for anybody who is still triggered or confused about this.

As far as I know, Barbies don't have sexual organs. Neither do Kens. This particular Barbie is no different. But its face looks like Lauren Cox, who happens to be transgender.

Nothing to see here, move along please.

Is this thread just masquerading as a woke or transgender bashing opportunity I wonder?

Friends of mine had black dolls in the 60s although I never did.

I had a baby black doll in the 50s the only doll I still have and its dressed in my son's christening outfit.

volver

Here she is. Its clearly the end of civilisation as we know it.

But then I've always thought that about Barbies.

How is anyone supposed to know that that’s transgender? Is there perchance a willy scrunched up inside the sparkly outfit?

I’m surprised to hear your friend couldn’t find a black doll paddyann54. I’ve had mine since the 1950’s. She’s still in good condition apart from her lips which have strangely turned white. My grandchildren still play with her and change her outfits.

Ah the 'woke brigade'. Where do I sign up?

Slightly off topic but in keeping with fluidity of identity, a man in Japan has decided to give up being a human being altogether and has adopted some realistic dog like, all encompassing canine like costume, not a onsie far better than that. He now wants to live his life as a Collie, not Lassie obviously because he's not real! I just wonder whether he will be accepted into dog only areas, for example a holiday kennel, or whether they the dogs in residence would simply get so hot under the dog collar it would send them barking mad at the very thought of some charlatan human trying to appropriate their kibble not to mention howling that they aren't the only ones who have a ruff time! he himself has just recovered from a nasty bout of distemper

Whatever next! James Corden identifying as a cat oh forgot that has already happened, he did that shite film.

No one's said it is volver.

Its a doll like all the others and its face is modelled to look like an actress who happens to be transgender.

Honest, its not the end of the world.

So just another plastic fake woman - unless there's a little surprise under the skirt?

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10856071/Laverne-Cox-makes-history-Mattels-transgender-Barbie.html

Well it had to happen didn’t it?
It’s all nonsense of course but the woke brigade will love it.
*Celebrating diversity’ seems to be the new religion.
I loved the comment about how an overweight doll covered in tattoos would also be appropriate these days!

Our daughter had a black doll in 1971. She was a very
pretty plastic doll and our then neighbour knitted various outfits for her. The name she came with was Cinderella and she was much loved for many years along with other dolls and Teddies.

I had a black doll in the 50s and later two ‘teenage dolls’ which Mum made outfits for, I suppose the forerunner of Barbie.
My son had two Action Men, one white and one brownish. I enjoyed changing their uniforms and weapons around!?

Our eldest son was the same Galaxy and I remember the house being overrun with Thomas'.

I had a black doll in the mid 1960's paddyann. I never had Barbie but had Sindy and Patch.

Good one Urmstonngran .

And Dame Sarah Gilbert of Covid vaccine fame - highlight of her career I'm sure!

When DD was small we resisted Barbie for a long time, but eventually gave in and bought her "Doctor Barbie". MiL, almost immediately, made a nurse's outfit for it.

Far too wokey for me and I always preferred Sindy.

volver

I've just been down a Barbie rabbit hole. You can buy Barbie representations of Rosa Parks, Florence Nightingale, Katherine Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. And Samantha Cristoforetti, who is an astronaut

Its changed since I was a girl.

Oh yes, they have marketing and selling little ones plastic Chinese tat down to a fine art ?