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The Barbie Interviews Project intends to start a discussion about how gender roles and societal structures are taught to children through user-submitted anecdotes about Mattel's iconic doll.



Saturday, May 21, 2011

Did you have Ken dolls? How did male dolls act in relation to female dolls?

"I did. Some of them were the typical plastic haired ones, some with actual hair and some Disney (such as Aladdin and The Beast from Beauty and the Beast). The number of female Barbies always outweighed that of the male Barbies so they weren't as primary to the play."

-Scarlet, 25, Caucasian, heterosexual female from the United States

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