Showing posts with label gender specific toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender specific toys. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2012

Drag Queen Barbie

No this time it is not you or another transgender kid putting a dress on a Ken Doll.
This is a new Barbie which is just happening to be compared to model/designer Phillipe Blond. (shown above)

While it's uplifting and fun to think this represents a real change in the basic idea of gender specific toys for kids- remember Mattel is not (of course marketing the doll as Drag Queen Barbie) and this is a collectors doll and retails for 125.00 dollars.

Buckle Up for the Ride

Image from Inis Piazzi on UnSplash. I am biased I know but I think negotiating a full-fledged trip through the gender frontier from one sid...