When you meet the one
That you've been waitin' for.
And he’s everything that you want and more.
You look at him and you finally start to live for some one else.
And then you find yourself,
That’s when you find yourself.
When we go through life,
So sure of where we're headin'.
And we wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened.
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way, it's really just as well.
Because you find yourself,
Yeah that's when you find yourself.
Song: Find Yourself by Brad Paisley (from Pixar’s Cars).
Don’t want @marcobodtlives to miss this.
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I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.
Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.
That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.
And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.
Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.
This movie has the potential to radically change the way we collectively see Barbie into what Ruth Handler originally intended, I’m so very excited
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zelda: “no, but...I would also like this notarised”
the totk situation is a textbook case of royal marriage for appearances so that the gay zoras can be with their blonde hylians, and you can't tell me otherwise
the blond barbarian man is leeroy, a beefier and more himbo reincarnation of link. still waiting to see him in-game
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