Gay club ken doll

Remember when Mattel accidentally made a super gay Ken doll? We do. And queer people made him the best selling Ken doll, ever. The year is Barbie is cool as shit, but her boyfriend Ken…not so much. Way less outfits, way less adventures, and with cool dudes like G. Mattel needed to do something, and stat.

So they surveyed a bunch of five year olds who definitely knew what cool was and made a whole new Ken, ready to burst out of the doll and say hi to the world. Chrome cock ring necklace and all. Wait, what?? Leather daddies wore them stitched to their vests. Lesbians wore them as zipper pulls.

And many, many people wore them around their necks as a necklace. Ken included. Obviously, none of those little girls told the Mattel researchers that they wanted Ken to wear a cock ring club his neck. It is probably true that the adults designing the doll saw the fashion out of context and never thought to dig deeper.

Mattel staunchly denies the doll was intended to have anything to do with homosexuality at all. Mattel, gay has never been pleased about this connection, ken to discontinue the dolls. However, the story spread faster than them, and sales for the doll spiked, making him the best selling Ken doll ever.

Still, he will always have his little place in history as the time Barbie supported her boyfriend in exploring his homosexual tendencies. Who knew Barbie was such a cool girlfriend?

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Mattel has been manufacturing its Barbie dolls since Girls really liked Barbie, and the doll became a certifiable cultural force, but Ken dolls never sold as well. And a leather vest. And an earring, and tight pants. Oh, and maybe a flashy necklace, too. Ken, just like the other dolls in the Earring Magic collection, even came with a human-sized clip-on earring for the kids to wear.

Ken even had a flashy, circular chrome ring dangling around his neck.