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Top 10 Gayest Barbie Movies
As promised, the Top 10 of Barbie movies, ranked by gayness. Granted, I need to preface this with the fact that the majority of Barbie movies can be read quite gay because they are about very affectionate female friendships, or bitter rivalries turned into very affectionate friendships, and most of the movies don’t even have a canon straight romance, which only adds to it.
10. The Three Musketeers
It’s not the gayest, but I have yet to meet an adaptation of the Musketeers story that wasn’t heavily gay and suggestive toward an OT4, so it had to create this list. Also, while not overly gay in the dynamics between female characters - there are four badass women sword-fighting and kicking ass and Barbie’s outfit from the opening sequence alone is incredibly gay. So this movie, while not necessarily romantically queer , definitely tailored to please the gays.
9. A Christmas Carol
Let me just utter , I did not like this feature, but it was still rather queer , considering that Eden Starling (Barbie)’s main motivation and anchor toward the excellent is her partner Catherine. Their dynamic was, to me, the only saving grace this feature had.
8. Rock ‘n Royals
A doll! A doll! William wants a doll! Don’t be a sissy said his best companion Ed.
Those lines are from the song “William’s Doll,” based on the Charlotte Zolotow and William Pène du Bois book and sung by Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas on the 1972 “Free To Be You and Me” album.
Of all the songs from this groundbreaking record helping children better understand gender, race and other issues from what we today call a “woke perspective,” it is the only one whose lyrics I recall by heart.
There’s a reason: Love William, I was a young man who played with dolls.
“Barbie,” the new movie on the ― at times ― controversial doll has reminded me that I was a gay Barbie Male child in a heteronormative world, something I did not yet comprehend, even if through my fascination with dolls, others did. Cue outdated psychological nonsense if you want, but at home, I lived in a largely female environment, with three sisters and an older brother with autism spectrum disorder. My father was distant, and like many fathers at the time, not often home. Together with my mother and aunt, my close role models were female, the immature ones playing with Barbies.
Barbie was an early agent of progress for my siblings and
Let's face it: "Barbie" was going to be gay. Maybe not gay enough, according to some gays. Maybe too gay, according to anti-gays.
The fact is, this is a movie about Barbie, and wherever Barbie goes, some essential queerness will move, too. As a kid, I recollect wanting to be Barbie's best same-sex attracted friend - I imagined we'd contain some pretty entertaining sleepovers in her Dreamhouse. I also imagined some lovely fun sleepovers with Ken.
So now that "Barbie" is a splashy, pink-soaked blockbuster, director Greta Gerwig serves up a feminist fantasia in which a diverse group of Barbies, including several played by LGBTQ+ actors, reclaim their nature from their Ken-ruling counterparts. As a gay boy led into gay adulthood by strong women, I am on board with all that girl might in Gerwig's "Barbie."
I also appreciate that the film, starring Margot Robbie as the leading Barbie and Ryan Gosling as the foremost Ken, is entire of queer subtext that has sent right-wingers into a anti-queer meltdown because, god forbid, dolls should be for everyone. Fox News reported that a Christian news site "warns" that the film '"forgets core audience' in favor of trans agenda and gender themes."
Let them have their bigoted
Author's Personal Journey in Collecting
Source: Peter Danzig/Personal Collection
In the world of collecting, passions often run deep and defy conventional expectations. That’s a good thing, or else I don’t reflect I’d have a employment as a geek therapist and toy analyst. On the other hand, I also wouldn’t have establish a wonderful community of toy collectors worldwide. One such fascination that has intrigued clinicians, theorists, marketing departments, and collectors alike is the affinity that some gay men contain for Barbie dolls. It might seem unconventional or even paradoxical, but a closer and more affirming examination reveals a complex interplay of personal self, intersectionality, diversity, cultural alter, and psychological factors.
Nostalgia, Self, and Representation
Let's be clear: No theory can talk for a whole population of people. Yet, after 6 years of analyze, podcast interviews, and consulting for toy companies and innovation departments, one thing is clear: Barbie is for everyone. For many gay men I’ve interviewed or supported in therapy, collecting Barbie dolls represents a celebration of culture and a connection to a formative part of their childhood