Vlogs from a few of my April adventures… stuff I did on my birthday, excitement about seeing Hamilton, and some really happy footage from my road trip to see friends.
Hope you’re all well!
Vlogs from a few of my April adventures… stuff I did on my birthday, excitement about seeing Hamilton, and some really happy footage from my road trip to see friends.
ok this is “earring magic ken” who was introduced in 1992 (and discontinued shortly thereafter)
basically mattel had done a survey and discovered that girls didn’t think ken was “cool” enough
SO someone had the bright idea to research coolness by sending people to raves which, at the time, were mostly hosted & attended by gay men. so they went to these raves and took notes on what the fashions were and finally landed on this outfit, mesh shirt & all
this doll became the best selling ken doll in history, mostly because gay men bought it in droves. (many of them said his necklace was supposed to be a cockring) but mattel and a number of parents weren’t very amused and discontinued the doll
OH MY GOD YOU’RE LEAVING OUT THE BEST PART
SO
MAGIC EARRING KEN. This bitch gay as HELL. supposedly the aforementioned rings on him are for “magic earrings” and clip on charms. These charms are advertised as totally COMPLETELY heterosexual, not gay at ALL, see there’s a Barbie that also has Magic Earring Action with clip on charms! Ken wears them to match, because he’s STRAIGHT
Here’s the issue: THERE IS NO MATCHING BARBIE. Magic Earring Ken is out here straight up wearing cock rings on his jacket with a thinly devised advertising ploy to make it SEEM not-gay. But it’s DEFINITELY GAY. (And if you’re thinking, why cock rings? Well way back in 1992 gay culture was HUGE on wearing cock rings, it was the in-style. Everyone who was gay wore one, even women; you sewed them to your leather jacket, and the placement indicated some of your sexual preference. In case you were wondering, Ken is a Bottom.)
AND IT GETS BETTER. Magic Earring Ken was on the shelves for six weeks before they pulled him. In that short amount of time? Magic Earring Ken became the BEST SELLING Barbie Doll Mattel has EVER SOLD. LET THAT SINK IN. SIX WEEKS. And now every time these wheezy old hetero windbag execs go to look at their sales board, they’re forever haunted by Magic Earring Ken at the top of their charts.
Gay as hell, Cock Ring Bottom Ken, the Best Selling Mattel Doll. Pride.
full offense but John Green has written three entire books about whiny teenage boys realizing that they’ve been over-idealizing the women in their lives and that seeing women as stories or symbols instead of complex and autonomous people is a shitty thing to do so like… when are we going to stop pretending it’s fun and cool to make fun of John Green books
like I see SO MANY people talk about how JG is just writing wish fulfilment about girls be didn’t bang in high school or whatever but if you actually read Alaska or Paper Towns or Katherines you might notice that none of his male leads ever actually /get with/ any of the female leads in any real way
this post is 900% because some girl in my writing workshop, in this the year of 2017, just tried to say all of John Green’s books are “boy gets girl” when 1.) that’s blatantly untrue and 2.) his books can be better described as coming of age ft. contemplations of death/purpose/crushing suburban boredom depending on the book. and you can call him pretentious until you’re blue in the face, I really don’t care if that’s you’re opinion, but sweet Jesus WHY did it become so trendy to hate these books
anyway what I’m getting at here is that like 99% of complaints about John Green books sound like they’re coming from people who have never read an actual John Green book, or at least not with any understanding
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