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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.



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Saturday, May 21, 2011

When did you stop playing with Barbies?

"[P]robably around 12, nobody wanted to play with toys anymore except me. So I couldn't play with them, since my mom wouldn't let me play with them alone. I would just play with legos instead, although I did impose some barbie style playing on my legos at times, building houses, changing clothes and hairs."

-Jordan, 23, Caucasian, bisexual trans-female from France