When I was a little girl (long before Barbie and Ken) I had 2 dolls (the first one was mesed up by my attempt at “makeup” using nail polish) and there WERE no male dolls (especially I did not have) so my 2 stuffed animals had to do.
The panda was the king and the floppy bunny was the prince (long floppy ears and all). Come to think of it, the boy next door had red hair and big ears too;-)
I love this comic, and Ruthie’s imagination reminds me of myself. I still have as much imagination as a child, but can use it in visualization of anything – foods and memories of stuff.
So in Ruthie’s imagination Ken and Barbie have separate beds and apparently separate rooms. Also, it’s a loving father who can not only be in the same room with his daughter playing with dolls, but who is paying attention to the action.
Well, doesn’t a child base gender of a strange child on hair length, clothing, and name? All of which have become unreliable over the last two generations. Even if the child knows about the physical difference he/she may not realize that THAT is the accepted dividing line. In all it was probably just a more “family friendly” way of saying, “If I was an adult girl I’d have protruding breasts.”
oranaiche almost 11 years ago
To be fair, Ken doesn’t have anything that definitively tells gender, either.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 11 years ago
He’s Gone – Grateful Dead Listen at 1:35 for the troll’s line.
skeeterhawk almost 11 years ago
She knows about bras already? But I’m impressed at how well she’s taking the fact that Joe shot Ken onto the roof. Or did she get tired of Ken?
i_am_the_jam almost 11 years ago
Hilarious!
hughnsyl almost 11 years ago
@susan newman Yep, pretty much
vldazzle almost 11 years ago
When I was a little girl (long before Barbie and Ken) I had 2 dolls (the first one was mesed up by my attempt at “makeup” using nail polish) and there WERE no male dolls (especially I did not have) so my 2 stuffed animals had to do.
The panda was the king and the floppy bunny was the prince (long floppy ears and all). Come to think of it, the boy next door had red hair and big ears too;-)
vldazzle almost 11 years ago
I love this comic, and Ruthie’s imagination reminds me of myself. I still have as much imagination as a child, but can use it in visualization of anything – foods and memories of stuff.
dennis17 almost 11 years ago
So in Ruthie’s imagination Ken and Barbie have separate beds and apparently separate rooms. Also, it’s a loving father who can not only be in the same room with his daughter playing with dolls, but who is paying attention to the action.
dennis17 almost 11 years ago
Well, doesn’t a child base gender of a strange child on hair length, clothing, and name? All of which have become unreliable over the last two generations. Even if the child knows about the physical difference he/she may not realize that THAT is the accepted dividing line. In all it was probably just a more “family friendly” way of saying, “If I was an adult girl I’d have protruding breasts.”
dennis17 almost 11 years ago
Car wrecks? This is apparently the Lohan/Spears/Hilton version of Barbie.
OldestandWisest almost 11 years ago
I didn’t know Ruthie had a Lindsay Lohan doll!
LOWRIDER84 almost 11 years ago
Some men do.