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He's (Not) Just Ken: The True History of Barbie’s Beau

There's More to That

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The Ken Doll

Greta Gerwig's new film Barbie opens in a pink plastic utopia called Barbie Land. But everything changes when Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, has an existential crisis. If Barbie was presented to girls as an aspirational ideal of womanhood, what does it say about Ken?

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