# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/21 "2006-01-18T13:39:35Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [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. _Why_ do people automatically associate gay men with anal sex? :mad: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/22 "2006-01-18T14:23:54Z")
> [@elelle](#): > > **Miller** > He has a plastic lump. Just that, a lump, a bump, a sad mumble of a hope of genitalia. An Angry Inch, one might say. \*My sex change operation got botched My guardian angel fell asleep on the watch Now all I’ve got is a barbie doll crotch I’ve got an angry inch Six inches forward and five inches back I got a I got an angry inch Six inches forward and five inches back I got a I got an angry inch\* ---
**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, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/23 "2006-01-18T14:27:39Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > And what straight man do you know that can accessorize like that? Hmmmm…??? :dubious: But…but…but… he’s not a MAN!! He’s an ELF ! Elves are… different ! And ‘different’ doesn’t mean GAY ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/24 "2006-01-18T14:32:41Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > [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. Got a sort of _Dread Pirate Roberts_ look about him; camp, but probably self-effacing about it. > [@Miller](#): > > Found 'im. He was called “Earring Magic” Ken, and he is gayer than Pirate Ken having butt sex with Olympic Skater Ken. And that one looks like one of those squeaky-clean [80s Euro-pop band members](http://www.a-ha4ever.com/Fotos/a-ha/a-ha_07.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/25 "2006-01-18T14:38:52Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [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. He looks like he should be dancing with himself or having a white wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/26 "2006-01-18T14:46:06Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > He looks like he should be dancing with himself or having a white wedding. I can’t help but feel ‘white wedding’ would be some kind of euphemism for masturbating on his own face (or something), if he were to utter it. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/27 "2006-01-18T14:50:34Z")
Ken may be gay. He is rather festive. But, where is all this GI Joe is gay stuff coming from? I have it on good authority (my daughter is a Barbie enthusiast) that GI Joe is straight. As I write this, my living room floor is occupied by a Barbie house (with working elevator) where four Barbies and two GI Joes are having a party. Vintage GI Joe is having a bath with Magic of Pegasus Barbie. Land Warrior GI Joe is eating cake and riding the elevator with the other Barbies. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/28 "2006-01-18T14:52:27Z")
When I got my first Ken doll, he didn’t have many clothing options. All of the Ken pants that were given to me with the doll tended to bunch up or slip down when Ken was placed in a sitting position. This resulted in Ken driving the Barbie Ferrari without any pants. I didn’t even bother to put swim trunks on him. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/29 "2006-01-18T15:01:13Z")
That’s the _only_ way to drive a Ferrari. It’s a little known fact that Michael Schumacher doesn’t even own a pair of pants. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/30 "2006-01-18T15:03:25Z")
Oh, and I forgot to mention that one of the little GI Joes (Snake Eyes, I think) regularly goes swimming and horseback riding with Polly Pockets. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/31 "2006-01-18T16:09:20Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Ken may be gay. He is rather festive. But, where is all this GI Joe is gay stuff coming from? I have it on good authority (my daughter is a Barbie enthusiast) that GI Joe is straight. As I write this, my living room floor is occupied by a Barbie house (with working elevator) where four Barbies and two GI Joes are having a party. Vintage GI Joe is having a bath with Magic of Pegasus Barbie. Land Warrior GI Joe is eating cake and riding the elevator with the other Barbies. A little girl is playing with her dolls when her mom asks her why the male doll is there with the barbie. The girl says, “That’s GI Joe. Barbie comes with him.” Mom replies, “No, Barbie comes with Ken.” So the girl says, “No, Barbie comes with GI Joe. She only fakes it with Ken.” ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/32 "2006-01-18T18:32:59Z")
Yes, Barbie broke up with Ken when she finally figured things out. Fortunately she was spared a bit of humiliation since she had been too busy in the astronaut program to ever getting around to writing that book “How Barbie Got Her Groove Back”. ---
**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, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/33 "2006-01-18T20:17:36Z")
Ken should really have his own Dog Grooming Shoppe. It would just be perfect. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/34 "2006-01-18T21:17:29Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [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. That? Made me snort my lunch out my nose, I laughed so hard. It was even worse when I clicked the link. ---
**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, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/35 "2006-01-18T21:50:15Z")
> [@Jeep's Phoenix](#): > > When I got my first Ken doll, he didn’t have many clothing options. All of the Ken pants that were given to me with the doll tended to bunch up or slip down when Ken was placed in a sitting position. This resulted in Ken driving the Barbie Ferrari without any pants. I didn’t even bother to put swim trunks on him. My Ken doll only had one suit of clothes-that he came in. So he just sat around in his plastic molded on tighty-whities. I also had little Barbie-wig that I used to put on my “Ken in Drag”. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/36 "2006-01-18T21:56:06Z")
There was a place in Buckhead (Atlanta) GA that was selling cross-dresser Ken & Barbie dolls back in the mid-nineties. I tried to google it, but didn’t find anything on the first page of results. I’d look harder, but it’s five minutes 'til _ **Yabba Dabba Doo** _, so I gotta pack up the laptop. ---
**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 19, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/37 "2006-01-19T06:14:08Z")
I was always partial to Gangsta Bitch Barbie with Tu-Pac Ken myself. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/38 "2006-01-19T15:02:04Z")
Not quite a gangsta bitch, but I did have a bling-wearing [Rappin’ Rockin’ Barbie](http://cgi.ebay.com/RAP-ROCKIN-BARBIE_W0QQitemZ6029553310QQcategoryZ15953QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). You can’t tell from the picture, but she had a poofy hat on her head. The boom box was very loud, and played the same 9 beats over and over as long as the button was held down. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/39 "2006-01-19T15:07:54Z")
> [@Licentious Ectomorph](#): > > 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. Oh wow! I didn’t know Tom of Finland designed dolls! ---
**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 20, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439/40 "2006-01-20T04:48:42Z")
> [@Jeep's Phoenix](#): > > Not quite a gangsta bitch, but I did have a bling-wearing [Rappin’ Rockin’ Barbie](http://cgi.ebay.com/RAP-ROCKIN-BARBIE_W0QQitemZ6029553310QQcategoryZ15953QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). You can’t tell from the picture, but she had a poofy hat on her head. The boom box was very loud, and played the same 9 beats over and over as long as the button was held down. I didn’t have her, but my sister did! She had a really cute little leather miniskirt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-i-present-to-you-the-new-semi-gay-ken-doll/340439.md?page=3)