Comments on: “Barbie’s Campus” is probably a lot like yours

By: Mary Lynn

Mary Lynn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:11:34 +0000

I had all of this stuff. It looked like when my big sister went to college in 1964. Let me tell you, that same campus looked very different by 1974.

By: Driving “Miss Barbie?” : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:50:51 +0000

[...] treated you to Barbie’s Campus last month, courtesy of Found in Mom’s Basement (and thanks again to Erica at the good old days for the [...]

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:33:56 +0000

Lilian–I saw that. And it looks like most of her skin is covered, and she doesn’t have giganticly disproportionate breasts–so call it a victory for girls everywhere!

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:47:05 +0000

This is why I’m glad that Dora is now going to middle school and still exploring intellectual territory.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:06:25 +0000

Squadratomagico is very sharp-eyed! Here's more on Allan--from the same website, under a tag called "homobilia."

By: Tenured Radical

Tenured Radical — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:08:13 +0000

You forgot to post lesbian feminist Women Against Pornography Barbie.

By: Ink

Ink — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:35:49 +0000

This is fabulous and horrifying, all at once!

How would Barbie’s sweet shop skirt *ever* fit into those student desks?

Ken is not just “hard to recognize” when dressed as a harlequin–he’s freakishly scary!

By: squadratomagico

squadratomagico — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:05:28 +0000

It appears from the advertisements that Ken’s clothes also fit a young gentleman named “Allen.” Coincidence? I think not.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:25:29 +0000

Janice, I think you’re right about Barbie and Midge, but on Ken, I’m with GayProf: Ken didn’t want to be QB. Ken was envious of his beard because her wardrobe was so much more fabulous!

By: Janice

Janice — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:20:40 +0000

Barbie didn’t get to do the labs, unless they were in the Home Ec department. Barbie got told that she couldn’t study Greek, because it was only “for men” (which made Barbie wonder what exactly it was that Greek women spoke). Midge was advised by the nice old professor to just focus on getting her Mrs. and not waste her time on that nasty ol’ B.S.

Barbie also got a lot of nasty looks when it came to be game time. Most of these came from Ken because he wanted to be wearing the quarterback’s uniform, not stuck as a drum major! But then Ken thought better of complaining because, after all!, this was the 1950s and some nasty type in marketing could have made him wear a beanie, fergawdsake!