Moschino Barbie: Barbie Boy

God help us if there's a war!

PS An actual Barbie ad, pretty sure it's internet only.

The Guyliner writes...

The advert isn’t quite the watershed moment we’ve all been waiting for – the Barbie doll is a limited-edition in association with fashion house Moschino, and the little boy is styled to look like the brand’s creative director Jeremy Scott, so it’s all very tongue in cheek.

But, honestly, what I wouldn’t have given to see a a boy in an advert playing with a doll when I was that age.

It may come as zero surprise to learn I was a boy who liked to play with dolls. At playgroup, you couldn’t get me out of the Wendy house, apparently, and on the first day at primary school, I marched straight to the dressing up box at play time and put on a skirt. As a child you don’t realise the consequences of your actions or that one day you’ll be embarrassed by what you’ve done – like a really innocent version of being mortifyingly drunk and uninhibited – and nobody has taught you that you have to behave a certain way just because, so you screw it up...

Fun Police Watch: Titus Androgynous

Some have criticized Titus in Kimmy Schmidt for being a gay stereotype. Can we not have an effeminate gay man represented on TV without controversy? 

I know people like Titus. If a person exists, it’s fair game. Titus makes Barbie clothes, for example, and that’s based on an old gay friend of mine who worked as a cater-waiter when he first moved to New York. He was too broke to go out, so he’d literally sit inside and sew Barbie clothes to kill time. I try to base everything in some kind of truth. I don’t worry about what the Internet says. Getting in trouble with the Internet is not real. The Internet is not a force you have to obey.

Is it frustrating when someone’s offended by a joke that comes from a loving place? 

Well, there’s no consideration of context in comedy these days. There’s also a dangerous desire to silence people when they say something you don’t like. If someone has a crazy opinion, I would prefer they let me hear it so that I can disagree and know who I’m dealing with...

Tina Fey Q&A The Advocate.

PS Barbie And Gay Shame.

Problem of The Day: Barbie Boy

Q. My lovely grandson is six years old and not at all a typical boy. He's obsessed with Disney films, and when I used to take him to playgroup he always rushed to put on the girls' dressing-up clothes. I know he likes to wear his sister's clothes, too.

What worries me is that his mother, my daughter-in-law, discourages this side of him. He told me he had wanted to go to a birthday party dressed as a Disney princess, but she told him to wear a pirate costume instead.

I know he adores Barbie dolls and wanted me to buy him one for Christmas, but when I checked with my daughter-in-law, she said they have only gender-neutral toys in their house. I feel strongly about this because my other son (her brother-in-law) was a bit the same. He liked wearing my clothes and jewellery, and I was happy to let him. He has grown up to be a confident and contented gay man. I want my grandson to be happy with who he is. What should I do?

A. Well, this is a new one...

The Help Desk, The Independent On Sunday.

Daily Mail: Barbie Girl

At first glance, you may think you're in a Mattel museum.

But the 2,000 Barbies and 1,000 Kens lining the walls of this home show collector Stanley Colorite's 'Dream House'
The 41-year-old, who calls himself the Barbie Man, started collecting nearly two decades ago and spends $30,000 a year adding to it.
His seven-bedroom home in Florida has become a tribute to the popular toy, taking up four rooms - including the bathroom...

This is what you miss if you don't read the Daily Mail!
Worst rated comment: "I feel sorry for his wife."
Which I think is a joke - he is pictured with "his boyfriend, Dennis", who has one of those "please kill me" faces.
Odd how relaxed and matter-of-fact about The Gays the Mail's features and showbiz gossip often is, when so many of their columnists are still anti-gay shitebags.  

Barbie: Newsflash!

So Ken was gay!

Barbie And Ken: Free At Last!

"Get ready for Barbie™ A Fairy Secret, an amazing adventure with Barbie™ where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken™ is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie’s two fashion stylist friends reveal they are actually fairies and that Ken™ has been taken to a magical secret fairy world not far away! Barbie™ and her rival Raquelle take off with the fairy friends on an action-packed journey to bring him back. Along the way they must stick together and learn that the real magic lies not just in the fairy world itself, but in the power of friendship."

Product description on Amazon. With thanks to Andrew Humphrey.