Bettmann (Bettmann Archive) Sometimes Barbie and Ken dressed up.
Ruth and Elliott Handler, creators of Barbie and Ken with their dolls. He was the satellite of a much bigger, more controversial and more fertile planet. He sold well, though not as well as Barbie. In all that time, he exercised a sort of neutral masculinity. In reality, Ken Carson went mostly unperceived in his first decades of existence, between his birth in 1961 and the last years of the 20th century. In the Barbie universe, which joined our own in the late 1950s, Ken has been an absent presence, a man without a backstory, the consort of a queen who left no space for anyone else on the throne. This is why his story must be told.” Gosling is right. If you ever really cared about Ken, you would know that nobody cared about Ken. Like you ever thought about Ken before this? You never cared. Gosling himself, in an interview with GQ and on social media, mentioned the uproar: “I would say, you know, if people don’t want to play with my Ken, there are many other Kens to play with,” he said, “It is funny, this kind of clutching-your-pearls idea of, like, #notmyken.
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