About this Blog

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.



Monday, February 20, 2012

Did your Barbies ever have sex? If so, how did you simulate sex?

"Yes. I just kind of bumped them together repeatedly though. I had a general idea of how sex worked, but the specifics were a total mystery to me."

-Maggie, 23, Caucasian pansexual female from The Bible Belt, USA

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Were your Barbies ever in interracial relationships? What about same sex relationships? How did they act within these relationships?

"Yes and yes. I only had two boy Barbies so LESBIANS EVERYWHERE. I really didn't think anything of it at the time. I thought a lesbian was just someone who married their best friend and that sounded pretty cool."

-Maggie, 23, Caucasian pansexual female from the Bible Belt, USA

Saturday, February 18, 2012

What kind of environment did your Barbies live in?

"Some lived in the half put together Dream House. One lived with the Power Rangers. One lived in the tub. Superhero Barbie lived up high on a shelf. Everyone else was either homeless or lived with the My Little Ponies" 

-Maggie, 23, Caucasian pansexual female from The Bible Belt, USA

Friday, February 17, 2012

Who did you play Barbie's with? How did you interact when you played?

"I only played Barbie when my friends came over, I was much more interested in the barbies. She was always the cooler barbie and I was a bit of a loser barbie."

-Erin, 19, Caucasian and Native American, heterosexual female from San Fransisco, USA

Thursday, February 16, 2012

What careers did your Barbies have?

"I don't remember her having much of a career, she was mostly a teenager. I just really wanted to be a teenager at the time. It looked like lots of fun."

-Erin, 19, Caucasian and Native American, heterosexual female from San Fransisco, USA

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

What did your favorite Barbie clothes look like?

"I liked my weird clothes, like the skirt that turned my barbie into a mermaid or a fairy."

-Erin, 19, Caucasian and Native American, heterosexual female from San Fransisco, USA

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

How ethnically diverse were your barbies?

"Not very diverse. I only received barbies as gifts at birthday parties, I think when your parents invite over their friends to their 8-year-old's birthday party they just assume to get a white girl a white barbie."

-Erin, 19, Caucasian and Native American, heterosexual female from San Fransisco, USA