Sunday, November 8, 2009

What in the Gay Hell . . . . ?

A while back a news item caught my eye.

It seems that Mattel has decided to launch a "Palm Beach" line of Barbie Dolls and her friends. Included amongst these is

Sugar Daddy Ken.

What in the GAY HELL is that supposed to be!

Oh. My. God! I always suspected that Ken was a little on the closeted side; I mean really, he's awfully "stylish" and is always hanging around with Barbie, Skipper, Pepper and all of those vixens. He had all the signs of gay BFF long before Will met Grace. And let's face it. We all knew once we pulled down his pants that Barbie was only staying with him to get the dream house and the dream car. If you know what I mean.

But THIS! This is so . . . so . . . stereotypically "old moneyed queen trolling for rent boys in South Beach". Blech!

I don't get it. If they're going to have Ken come out of the closet, at least give him the dignity of not debuting as an old troll with a yappy dog.

It's just tragic!

Sigh.

It makes me nostalgic for the days of Bob the Gay Doll (the first gay doll. released in 1977)


Oh well. At least if they're going to make Ken a "Sugar Daddy" maybe they can have one of the Billy dolls as his boytoy.




By the way. Yes, I know I've been neglecting my blog lately. But work has been batshit crazy, and we've been really busy at home. So the blogging has suffered a bit. I'll try to get back here more often.