Mattel introduces new gender neutral doll (1 Viewer)

[Madmarsha]

Mattel's new gender-neutral dolls can be a boy, girl, both or neither

Dolls for all kids: Mattel's Creatable World dolls are for kids who refuse to be defined by gender.

www.cnet.com

 

[Charlie Brizzown]

Save some money when it’s time to hand it down.

 

[Saint by the Bay]

I don’t really have a position on this, but I know the guy who came up with the idea and pitched it to them (he is a Mattel employee). He cried the day they agreed to move forward.

Completely irrelevant, but I wanted to name drop without dropping a name. ?

 

[Kielio]

The market of babies born without genitalia is booming lately! Wild!

 

[HoustonSaint68]

Actually, it might be LESS confusing for kids with these. I know I was wildly confused for many, many, many years based on undressing my sister's Barbie dolls when I was a tyke. I mean, where did the babies come out?????

 

[Madmarsha]

I don’t really have a position on this, but I know the guy who came up with the idea and pitched it to them (he is a Mattel employee). He cried the day they agreed to move forward.

Completely irrelevant, but I wanted to name drop without dropping a name. ?

really? That's cool. I'm way past playing with dolls, but I think it's a great idea.

 

[Madmarsha]

Actually, it might be LESS confusing for kids with these. I know I was wildly confused for many, many, many years based on undressing my sister's Barbie dolls when I was a tyke. I mean, where did the babies come out?????

Imagine how Ken felt?

 

[Charlie Brizzown]

I don’t really have a position on this, but I know the person who came up with the idea and pitched it to them (it is a Mattel employee). The person cried the day they agreed to move forward.

Completely irrelevant, but I wanted to name drop without dropping a name. ?

Fixed.

 

[yuyi64]

Imagine how Ken felt?

Ouch, I'd rather not! I guess retailers better start clearing some aisles for the new non-binary toy section.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

up next

 

[GW93]

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I don't know which Star Trek episode takes the medal for Most Sledgehammer-rific Social Allegory, this one, or the "drugs are bad, m'kay?" episode from season 1 of TNG.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

Fixed.

Fixed. Exactly. That’s what they used to do with Ken.

 

[St. PJ]

Mattel's new gender-neutral dolls can be a boy, girl, both or neither

Dolls for all kids: Mattel's Creatable World dolls are for kids who refuse to be defined by gender.

www.cnet.com

That reminds me of a magazine i used to read 20 years ago that would always have a small section entitled "This week's sign of the Apocalypse"

 

[bclemms]

Is this the millenial version of GI Jane.

 

[mjcouvi]

So it has boobs AND a penis? Or that would be trans and not neutral, right?

Ken didn't even have a penis though, did he? Wasn't his gender neutral? Wait, weren't all of the dolls gender neutral? The girl dolls had the same genitalia as the males, right?

Geez I don't follow. Maybe half a penis, half a vagina? Half a boob, half a man chest?

This is very confusing.