Ken Has No Penis
» Small Penis Humiliation
In the year of the Barbie doll’s fiftiest anniversary, what of her companion, the plastic hunk, Ken.
The only part of his anatomy that hasn’t changed is the one that’s never been there. Handler and the other women at Mattel were less sheepish than their male colleagues about giving Ken a pronounced “bump” at the crotch, but none of them ever considered endowing him correctly. Attending to a beauty beyond Cleopatra, he is beyond a eunuch. To compensate for his absent package, his outfits have been packaged with all manner of deputized phallia drum major’s baton here, a long-barreled rifle there. “The cruelest comment on his genital deficiency came in 1964,” writes Lord, “with ‘Cheerful Chef,’ a backyard barbecue costume that included a long fork skewering a pink plastic weenie.”
Ken’s sad and lonely life in Barbie’s shadow