{"id":43070,"date":"2025-12-02T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43070"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:08:15","slug":"after-barbies-creation-consumers-demanded-a-boy-version-there-was-just-one-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43070","title":{"rendered":"After Barbie\u2019s Creation, Consumers Demanded a Boy Version. There Was Just One Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/barbie-ken-doll-mattel-ruth-handler.html?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8b87a462-ac13-4064-9054-071de67ebcd3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:269px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cKen was to be the first new character in the Barbie universe, and so his design raised questions about the norms of that world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/barbie-ken-doll-mattel-ruth-handler.html\">After Barbie\u2019s Creation, Consumers Demanded a Boy Version. There Was Just One Problem.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKen was to be the first new character in the Barbie universe,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2181,379],"class_list":["post-43070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-barbie","tag-penis","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43070\/revisions\/43073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}