# Ladies, I present to you the New Semi Gay Ken Doll. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439 "2006-01-18T00:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/1 "2006-01-18T00:02:50Z")
[From the Metrosexual-Bisexual collection](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5997970094&fromMakeTrack=true) He would still lose to GI Joe, but not as quickly as the late and completely gay [Olympic Skater Ken](http://cgi.ebay.com/OLYMPIC-SKATER-KEN-BOYFRIEND-OF-BARBIE-GREAT-PARTNER_W0QQitemZ6028436443QQcategoryZ15953QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) or [Pirate Ken](http://cgi.ebay.com/COSTUME-BALL-KEN-1990-changes-to-pirate-or-genie-NRFB_W0QQitemZ6029719319QQcategoryZ15953QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/2 "2006-01-18T00:12:57Z")
Everybody knows that Ken is GI Joe’s bitch. He only uses Barbie as his shill. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/3 "2006-01-18T01:06:56Z")
Ha! I have a gay friend who collects Ken dolls as a goof because they’re so gay-looking. A few years ago I gave him that very Olympic Skater Ken as a gift. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/4 "2006-01-18T01:40:58Z")
Which was the Ken doll that came with a cock ring? ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/5 "2006-01-18T02:30:32Z")
**Miller** Unless Ken changed a whole lot with his nethers lately, his apparatus, viewed back in my girlhood, is, unfortunately, not capable of a cockring. He has a plastic lump. Just that, a lump, a bump, a sad mumble of a hope of genitalia. No wonder Barbs opted for the career track. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/6 "2006-01-18T02:46:21Z")
[Found 'im.](http://www.plokta.com/plokta/issue18/ken.jpg) He was called “Earring Magic” Ken, and he is gayer than Pirate Ken having butt sex with Olympic Skater Ken. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/7 "2006-01-18T03:02:14Z")
I can almost hear the Village People playing in the background as I look at that last one. Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/8 "2006-01-18T03:06:00Z")
Ken dumped GI Joe years ago for [this guy.](http://cgi.ebay.com/Billy-The-Worlds-1st-out-Gay-Doll-MIB-1997_W0QQitemZ5655497304QQcategoryZ36549QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) Ken doesn’t _need_ frontal equipment; Billy is most definitely the top in that relationship. Billy is “anatomically correct” (in some parallel universe where freakishly huge equipment is “correct”) and, if I’m not mistaken, he does have a cock ring. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/9 "2006-01-18T03:58:15Z")
So. Why doesn’t Gayer than a picnic basket Billy have either a permanent O face, accessible bunghole or kung fu grip? Does he come, she asks sniggeringly, with a glory hole accessory kit? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/10 "2006-01-18T04:27:28Z")
Meh. Billy is a poser. He only wishes he were as cool as [Gay Bob](http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1970s/general_1970s/1977_gay_bob_doll_1.html). ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/11 "2006-01-18T04:39:22Z")
Here is _my_ personal favorite Ken (and he’s NOT gay, he’s NOT! He’s NOT!!!) [http://cgi.ebay.com/BARBIE-DOLL-1-The-Lord-of-the-Rings-KEN-as-LEGOLAS\_W0QQitemZ6028813481QQcategoryZ15953QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem](http://cgi.ebay.com/BARBIE-DOLL-1-The-Lord-of-the-Rings-KEN-as-LEGOLAS_W0QQitemZ6028813481QQcategoryZ15953QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) I have him in my LOTR collection. … He’s NOT gay. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/12 "2006-01-18T04:44:43Z")
My best friend once gave me for my birthday a Ken doll in drag. She went to FAO Schwartz, picked up a Ken doll, and asked the sales guy for advice. She told him what she wanted to do, find som Barbie clothes that would fit Ken. THe sales guy said, without breaking stride, “Let’s go look in Career Casuals.” One of my favorite possessions. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/13 "2006-01-18T07:09:46Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > My best friend once gave me for my birthday a Ken doll in drag. She went to FAO Schwartz, picked up a Ken doll, and asked the sales guy for advice. She told him what she wanted to do, find som Barbie clothes that would fit Ken. THe sales guy said, without breaking stride, “Let’s go look in Career Casuals.” One of my favorite possessions. **Lissener**! Damn you! Now I have to clean my monitor ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/14 "2006-01-18T07:28:03Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > He would still lose to GI Joe. Depends on what you mean by “lose”. You’ve never heard of topping from the bottom? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/15 "2006-01-18T07:30:47Z")
Hell, I used to dress up my Ken doll in drag as a child. But I heard Barbie dumped Ken for her new boyfriend. I don’t remember his name, was it Blaine or Blake or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/16 "2006-01-18T07:57:34Z")
Ladies, there’s hope! Metrosexual Ken from the OP is portraying a fashion-conscious vampire, like [David Boreanaz](http://www.david-boreanaz.com/) as Angel. On second thought… hope? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/17 "2006-01-18T12:31:05Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Here is _my_ personal favorite Ken (and he’s NOT gay, he’s NOT! He’s NOT!!!) > … He’s NOT gay. And what straight man do you know that can accessorize like that? Hmmmm…??? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/18 "2006-01-18T12:37:40Z")
[Autolycus](http://www.dolls-n-daggers.com/Dolls/OOAKautolycus.html) is one of the coolest revamped, as it were, dolls. ( REally cool site to see how to re-do Barbie and other assorted dolls.) Actually, truth be told, they rock, man. And her inner 12 year old goes \*Squeeee Squeeee Squeeee all the way home… ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/19 "2006-01-18T13:29:53Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > But I heard Barbie dumped Ken for her new boyfriend. I don’t remember his name, was it Blaine or Blake or something like that? For some reason I was thinking ‘Kyle’. I could of course be completely wrong. (and probably am.) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/20 "2006-01-18T13:32:41Z")
> [@elelle](#): > > **Miller** > Unless Ken changed a whole lot with his nethers lately, his apparatus, viewed back in my girlhood, is, unfortunately, not capable of a cockring. He has a plastic lump. Just that, a lump, a bump, a sad mumble of a hope of genitalia. > > No wonder Barbs opted for the career track. No glory holes for Ken! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439.md?page=2)