Culture Did you ever play with dolls like Barbie dolls?

[Husky_Khan]

Did you ever play with dolls such as barbie dolls?

The answers are...

Yes. 🤷‍♀️

No. 🤷‍♂️

Kinda...

Simu Liu: "I didn't really have a relationship with Barbie in the past. I don't know about you, but I grew up in a society where traditional gender norms were pretty heavily enforced and pretty prevalent, and so I think we, maybe you, were taught from a very young age that 'Boys don't play with that'. 'Boys don't wear pink'. You know, colors became gendered, toys became gendered, there were all these rules that were imposed on us. So Barbie was always like, 'Oh that's not my toy. That's on the other toy'. And I'm so glad that this movie exists because I think it puts the final nail in the coffin of that very heteronormative idea of what gender is, and what is or is not gendered. How can you make a color gendered, you know? Over the course of this movie I've seen, been around, worn, played with more pink than I ever thought possible and it was so great. And it's so great to be free to express yourself in all of the ways you feel like you want to, and not to feel like because something is attributed to a certain gender or a certain idea that you can't also do that. That's I think what's really struck me about being in this movie, what's evolved in my understanding of Barbie and what it is, and what I hope that an audience will get from it when they watch the movie. And then I was kind of talking about Barbie, and how Barbie, 50 years ago, even 20 years ago, looked very different than it does now. It was very strictly blonde, white. As evidenced by now with Issa [Rae] getting her doll and there being so many different types of Barbies of different shapes, colors sizes gender expressions, that now, Barbie means a great deal many things, and Ken can mean just as many things as well. And that's really cool."

 

[filipina84]

Nope. Never played with dolls ever!

 

[bintananth]

I have twelve sisters. Do the math.

 

[Zyobot]

Nah, never had much interest in dolls or figurines at all.

However, it'd be helpful if you were less facetious and gave your honest thoughts on this instead. Gets a bit tiring parsing your half-joking from what you actually think, really.

 

[Red_Tornado]

Played with captain Kirk doll as a child.🙉

 

[PsihoKekec]

Do LEGO knights count as dolls?

 

[filipina84]

I have twelve sisters. Do the math.

You have twelve sisters?

 

[Vargas Fan]

If you're talking the same size as a Barbie, the closest I ever came to it was Action Man (UK GI Joe basically), and three 12 inch sized Star Wars figures of R2-D2, Threepio and Boba Fett.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I had a few breyer horse dolls, back when I was taking horse riding lessons as a kid. I inherited a few Star Wars dolls from my mother but never played with them. Too big compared to my other toys, and I wasn't really into Star Wars. I preferred legos.

 

[Husky_Khan]

However, it'd be helpful if you were less facetious and gave your honest thoughts on this instead. Gets a bit tiring parsing your half-joking from what you actually think, really.

No my honest thoughts have never been helpful for anything.

With that said, this isn't me being facetious, it's Simu Liu, whose one of my favorite celebrity lolcows.

 

[Buba]

No.

 

[Blasterbot]

yup. mom had a daycare and I had a sister. didn't do it much but I did. if all it takes to entertain a few 5 year old girls for an hour or two is playing with a ken doll then it isn't that big a deal.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Did you ever play with dolls such as barbie dolls?

Simu Liu:

I find it funny that a guy in his mid 30s who is physically fit and decently successful with a girlfriend a decade his junior is talking about heteronormativity like its a bad thing.

Like, dude, you could be a poster child for heteronormative behavior. Its not even necessarily non-heteronormative to wear pink - a lot of guys recognize that if you can wear pink and still come off as masculine, you are just flexing your masculine energy compared to other guys.

 

[filipina84]

I find it funny that a guy in his mid 30s who is physically fit and decently successful with a girlfriend a decade his junior is talking about heteronormativity like its a bad thing.

Like, dude, you could be a poster child for heteronormative behavior. Its not even necessarily non-heteronormative to wear pink - a lot of guys recognize that if you can wear pink and still come off as masculine, you are just flexing your masculine energy compared to other guys.

Yikes.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Not really. I can recall one incident of playing with Sam Cobra and thinking it was pretty awesome, I was particularly impressed with all the accessories like the Cue Ball designed to not roll straight he could cheat at pool with. It wasn't mine though. I didn't really have any toys growing up and moved so often that even if I had them they'd get left soon anyway.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Did you ever play with dolls such as barbie dolls?

The answers are...

Yes. 🤷‍♀️

No. 🤷‍♂️

Kinda...

Simu Liu: "I didn't really have a relationship with Barbie in the past. I don't know about you, but I grew up in a society where traditional gender norms were pretty heavily enforced and pretty prevalent, and so I think we, maybe you, were taught from a very young age that 'Boys don't play with that'. 'Boys don't wear pink'. You know, colors became gendered, toys became gendered, there were all these rules that were imposed on us. So Barbie was always like, 'Oh that's not my toy. That's on the other toy'. And I'm so glad that this movie exists because I think it puts the final nail in the coffin of that very heteronormative idea of what gender is, and what is or is not gendered. How can you make a color gendered, you know? Over the course of this movie I've seen, been around, worn, played with more pink than I ever thought possible and it was so great. And it's so great to be free to express yourself in all of the ways you feel like you want to, and not to feel like because something is attributed to a certain gender or a certain idea that you can't also do that. That's I think what's really struck me about being in this movie, what's evolved in my understanding of Barbie and what it is, and what I hope that an audience will get from it when they watch the movie. And then I was kind of talking about Barbie, and how Barbie, 50 years ago, even 20 years ago, looked very different than it does now. It was very strictly blonde, white. As evidenced by now with Issa [Rae] getting her doll and there being so many different types of Barbies of different shapes, colors sizes gender expressions, that now, Barbie means a great deal many things, and Ken can mean just as many things as well. And that's really cool."

he doesnt believe any of this. he is a striver mouthing the proper formulas to signal his allegiance to power.

 

[Skitzyfrenic]

More I played along with my sister, and briefly my step sister (she wasn't my step sister for very long) using Barbie dolls when I was very young, but I was never a big doll or action figure player. Except bionicle. But is that LEGO or Action Figure?

 

[Blasterbot]

More I played along with my sister, and briefly my step sister (she wasn't my step sister for very long) using Barbie dolls when I was very young, but I was never a big doll or action figure player. Except bionicle. But is that LEGO or Action Figure?

Did you play with them? then action figure. did you make them to look at them? then they are a model.