{"id":12948,"date":"2017-06-26T11:47:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=12948"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T20:05:29","slug":"about-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/about-ken\/","title":{"rendered":"about ken"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ken<\/p>\n

awesome article<\/a> about mattel’s new versions of ken (i had a ken doll growing up, who i pretended was bo duke of the<\/em> dukes of hazzard <\/em>and occasionally made to have rubbing type interactions with barbie):<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Ken is the carefully calibrated ideal complement to Barbie\u2014a blank, smiling man who does not threaten the stardom of the most intelligent, talented, rappin\u2019 rockin\u2019 princess astronaut in all of Malibu. Ken is \u201cnice,\u201d the members of the Barbie team will tell me over and over when I ask them to describe a doll\u2019s personality: \u201ca nice guy\u201d; \u201ca solid dude\u201d; and, most damningly: \u201cI picture him kind of Ryan Seacrest-y.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, not anymore. Starting now, Mattel is re-imagining the all-American guy. He may not be as inspiring as an imaginary female solo homeowner or the first imaginary female president, but that doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t have a rich imaginary inner life. The decision to give him some depth marks a new chapter for men, and dolls who are men. From this day forward, Ken doesn\u2019t always have to look like the most basic frat bro ever to get a B- in econ. He can be complicated, mysterious\u2014maybe even vegan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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awesome article about mattel’s new versions of ken (i had a ken doll growing up, who i pretended was bo duke of the dukes of hazzard and occasionally made to have rubbing type interactions with barbie): That\u2019s because Ken is the carefully calibrated ideal complement to Barbie\u2014a blank, smiling man who does not threaten the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12991,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions\/12991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}