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It's all about the complementarianism, the belief that male and female roles are biologically determined, with a creator God determining that males are dominant and females are submissive, males meant to rule and run things and females to obey and submit — and Barbie and Ken run smack up against all these assumptions.

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Barbie and Ken make us question these assumptions about biology-based gender roles and male dominance and female subordination, and about the way many religious groups now want to depict biology-determined gender roles and the male right to rul as the very heart of religion — when it's not.

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@wdlindsy I was more a Dennis the Menace kid. I remember carrying his likeness by the cowlick until it tore out of his head, an experience that was more about the structural integrity of plastics than gender roles.

Anyway, my first serious exposure to the subject of this thread was from The Groove Tube, a naughty-minors film featuring this lyric, delivered in a precursor to the rap style:

The doctor said that the marriage
was a failure
'Cause neither Ken nor Barbie
have got any genetalia

@fgbjr I always had a soft spot for Dennis, too — in part, because that's my middle name (and my father's, and his father's, and so on back to the early 1700s when our Irish immigrant ancestor with that name came to Virginia as an indentured servant).

My recollection is that Barbie came on the scene after Dennis — as I was moving towards adolescence — but I may be misremembering.

And yes, that lack of genitalia! No wonder the marriage failed!