Barbie s friend Ken celebrates a milestone birthday: 60
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1of5A reproduction of the original Ken doll, launched in 1961 as a companion to Barbie, appears in Bergen County, N.J., on Monday, March 8, 2021. Mattel has put the doll on sale this week to commemorate its 60th anniversary.Ted Shaffrey/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5A reproduction of the original Ken doll, launched in 1961 as a companion to Barbie, appears in Bergen County, N.J., on Monday, March 8, 2021. Mattel has put the doll on sale this week to commemorate its 60th anniversary.Ted Shaffrey/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of5A reproduction of the original Ken doll, launched in 1961 as a companion to Barbie, appears in Bergen County, N.J., on Monday, March 8, 2021. Mattel has put the doll on sale this week to commemorate its 60th anniversary.Ted Shaffrey/APShow MoreShow Less
By @CatalinaOnAir
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I never know what messy topic will end up on Twitter trends but when I saw Barbie is gay and I got a sense of deja vu.
The hype started with this tweet:
The screenshot shows an article and a Barbie Style IG post from 2017 featuring Barbie and the Aimee Song collab doll wearing Love Wins t-shirts.
So many people are just now discovering this iconic moment in toy history and swearing this means Barbie is queer.
Technically, Mattel hasn t officially said Barbie is queer so the post was expected to represent allyship to the LGBTQ+ community. Barbie is whoever you want her to be so dream up whatever ship you wanna see.
By @CatalinaOnAir
US-WOMEN S DAY-lifestyle-toys-Barbie
I never know what messy topic will end up on Twitter trends but when I saw Barbie is gay and I got a sense of deja vu.
The hype started with this tweet:
The screenshot shows an article and a Barbie Style IG post from 2017 featuring Barbie and the Aimee Song collab doll wearing Love Wins t-shirts.
So many people are just now discovering this iconic moment in toy history and swearing this means Barbie is queer.
Technically, Mattel hasn t officially said Barbie is queer so the post was expected to represent allyship to the LGBTQ+ community. Barbie is whoever you want her to be so dream up whatever ship you wanna see.
Barbie promoted the love wins T-shirts, designed to raise money for the Trevor Project and help LGBT+ youth in crisis. (Instagram/ BarbieStyle)
Despite a viral tweet making the rounds, unfortunately Barbie does not have a girlfriend and is not (as far as we know) a member of the LGBT+ community.
On Monday (11 January), a queer Twitter user posted that she had “JUST LEARNED BARBIE HAS A GIRLFRIEND”.
The tweet, which has been retweeted almost 15,000 times already, shows a photo of Barbie with another female doll, both wearing t-shirts that read “love wins”, alongside a Google result for a 2017 story claiming Mattel had given “Barbie her first girlfriend”.