We want a short, fat, bald Ken!!!! Have Mattel add diversity to it's Ken Dolls

We want a short, fat, bald Ken!!!! Have Mattel add diversity to it's Ken Dolls

The Issue

Recently, the toy company that created Barbie has began to release a line of very diverse Barbie dolls, a great milestone for modern America, celebrating the diversity in colors, bodies, and hair in our great country, and letting little girls know that it's okay to be yourself and not an unnaturally shaped blonde to be considered beautiful. HOWEVER, the unrealistic and unhealthy standards are still applied to Barbie's boyfriend, Ken. This petition is to get Mattel to design and sell diverse Ken dolls. Short, overweight, bald, underweight, pot-bellied, with no muscles. It's important because while traditionally, Barbie and friends are "girl" toys, but gendering toys is problematic, and the boys that may be interested need to be taught that they, too, don't need to be lean, athletic, fashionable, and with a full head of hair to be beautiful as they're shaped towards adulthood. Secondly, it helps to alleviate bullying, it teaches young girls that their dream boy doesn't have to be unnaturally perfect like Ken, that they can and should find short, bald, overweight men attractive as well. Mattel, please work on this large issue ASAP, and continue your efforts towards fighting unrealistic standards thay shape children in a problematic way.
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The Issue

Recently, the toy company that created Barbie has began to release a line of very diverse Barbie dolls, a great milestone for modern America, celebrating the diversity in colors, bodies, and hair in our great country, and letting little girls know that it's okay to be yourself and not an unnaturally shaped blonde to be considered beautiful. HOWEVER, the unrealistic and unhealthy standards are still applied to Barbie's boyfriend, Ken. This petition is to get Mattel to design and sell diverse Ken dolls. Short, overweight, bald, underweight, pot-bellied, with no muscles. It's important because while traditionally, Barbie and friends are "girl" toys, but gendering toys is problematic, and the boys that may be interested need to be taught that they, too, don't need to be lean, athletic, fashionable, and with a full head of hair to be beautiful as they're shaped towards adulthood. Secondly, it helps to alleviate bullying, it teaches young girls that their dream boy doesn't have to be unnaturally perfect like Ken, that they can and should find short, bald, overweight men attractive as well. Mattel, please work on this large issue ASAP, and continue your efforts towards fighting unrealistic standards thay shape children in a problematic way.

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