The Thing That Gets Me About About Barbie Is That Barbie Land Wasn’t Even Purposefully A Matriarchy,

the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them

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1 year ago

incredibly specific but anybody else hate it when somebody makes a line up of characters and all of the girls are shorter than every boy. like damn get some height variation where are my 5'4 kings and 6'0 queens

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2 years ago

I grew up in New Jersey, but clearly there are two very different New Jersey experiences. Is this a North Jersey thing?

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5 months ago

oh my gosh you have GOT to be more inclusive for gn / male!readers. if you tag your fic as gender neutral but use “princess” or any feminine terms i hate you

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3 months ago

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9 months ago

Like yes I'm listen to Gregorian chants dont play with me rn

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