The History of Earring Magic

The doll was created at the request of a children's focus group who wanted Ken to get a more cool updated look. Cass: The little girls of our great nation wanted a hypocrin and Mattel gave them a hip kid. A queer kid. But as Dan so brilliantly points out in his article, Mattel did in that present children with a gay Ken, they just didn't know that they were doing it.