[lbo-talk] Barbie & Ken

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jan 8 10:34:46 PST 2009


Apropos the Barbie thread, this just in from today's Popbitch:


> Barbie and Ken were named after the kids of Mattel
> founders Ruth and Elliot Handler. Ken felt humiliated
> by this. He got married and had three kids but was
> a closeted gay and died of AIDS in 1994.



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