![]() ![]() ![]() In popular culture, Ken has become a by-word for pathetic, self-denying masculinity the archetype of a submissive, passive, henpecked milksop, who exists only to hold his girlfriend’s handbag and be gently ridiculed (the memes that followed the poster’s release ran the tagline under photographs of Lady Diana and Prince Charles Zendaya and Tom Holland Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly). Ken, who has been through more bodily changes than mid-2000s Christian Bale Ken, who, in his doll form, has been habitually abused with the mercilessness of a character from a Hanya Yanagihara novel Ken, who has spent most - no, all - of his existence in the shadow of his permanently tippy-toed better half. But we knew who they meant and how they meant it: Barbie’s much maligned “best friend” who has, for more than 60 years (with a small hiatus at the turn of the millennium, which we’ll get to) been by her side, offering her, if not sexual satisfaction (we’ll get to that too), then at least moral support, in cute,Ĭomplementary outfits. The adverb so brutal for being so casual. But it wasn’t the picture that launched a thousand memes. Here, in a pink gingham sundress, sitting in the upper lobe of a giant letter “B”, was the Australian actress Margot Robbie, as the title character below her, gazing up adoringly, in a fetching green-and-white striped beach-shirt-and-shorts combo, was the Canadian actor Ryan Gosling, as Barbie’s boyfriend. After much anticipation, Warner Bros released the posters for a new live-action feature film, Barbie, the hot-pink hot-take on the pneumatic fashion doll from director Greta Gerwig, due out this summer. On the 4th of April this year, as a former president was quietly getting arrested, the internet went nuts for another all-American male with a penchant for an artificial tan.
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