Originally published at: Mattel debuts their first transgender Barbie | Boing Boing
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Lead story on Fox tonight?
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Not for positive reasons.
I want one because I never had a Barbie before and because Laverne is just freaking awesome.
Trans Rights Are Human Rights 
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Cue the outrage.
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Laverne is a Black trans woman, why would anyone on Fox have a problem with that?
Shall I put the /S or was that obvious?
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They can tell the story about how a once-proud Mattel who made their M-16s is now making children’s toys people want.
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Can I request my Laverne Cox Barbie be specifically made from recycled M-16s because I think that would make all the right people lose their shit and make the world a safer and better place all at once.
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- Body Type: Articulated - Superhero
Well alrighty then!
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Wasn’t Ken trans already? I mean, I’m as confused about this as I was when I was a kid.
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Same here, though for a different reason; Laverne Cox is everything.
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Our birthdays are coming up, she said, subtly.
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'Tis true!
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Leading with Barbie to distract diehard FOX audience from mass shootings.
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Recycle… YES! But not for kids’ toys. Bad ju-ju. Bad vibes.
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I want one, too. I never had a Barbie growing up, but I own a few now. Three of them are Bond Girl Barbies, which I got just because I was kind of stunned to see a Pussy Galore Barbie in the toy aisle of Walmart that actually said Pussy Galore on the box. And once I bought that, then I had to have Octopussy. I’m not a Bond fan at all, and those names are problematic, probably, but it just cracked me up that they actually made those and sold them in the toy aisles.
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And the right wing troglodytes will go ape shit over this.
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I eagerly await to see the right-wing implode over this.
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Though I likely won’t get one, I want one too. I never had my own Barbie as a kid, but my sister did and I got to play with them fairly often with her.
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The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil, approved a public hearing to discuss the brand new trans Barbie doll. Mr. Otoni de Paula (MDB-RJ) proposed this public hearing to discuss the nature of this doll and its alleged “psychosocial implications for Brazilian children as a result of the version of the Barbie doll with a male sexual organ.” Mr. Otoni also stated that the doll “incurs a teratological liberalism that will serve to confuse children about the nature of male and female genders, since women and men are differentiated by nature itself”.
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Somebody should tell him that Barbie hasn’t ever made a doll with genitals.
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