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Submitted by europe72:

From this week’s PostSecret.

Discuss?

This week’s Glee had a few interesting bits about the boys feeling insecure about their bodies/feeling peer pressure to look “like Ken”. 

That said - little boys aren’t regularly given Ken dolls to play with for hours on end for years. While the pressure is there, it’s not as institutionalized as it is for girls. 

I get and like the point, but yeah- I always thought of Ken as a toy marketed toward girls, to fill out the whole Barbie-fantasy-relationship/wedding sort of storyline. Besides, I never felt like Ken was a male stereotype slash role model in the way Barbie was; Ken was “girly” (at least mine was, he had long hair), skinny, clean-shaven, not buff or rough-and-tumble in the way it seemed like my brothers felt pressure to be. GI Joe or toys like that might be a better example.

My mom never let me own a Ken doll because she didn’t want to invest in a whole new doll wardrobe for him. She also taught me it was physically and biologically impossible to look like Barbie and have her measurements, so I never really worshipped the doll either. However, I do often wonder who some guys feel pressured to look like. Brad Pitt? Justin Bieber? Probably not a Ken doll.

(via yayforeverybody)

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