'A Doll For Everyone': Meet Mattel's Gender-Neutral Doll

By artappraiser on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 2:37am |

Got the scoop on Mattel’s launch of a gender-neutral doll. It can be a boy, a girl, neither or both.

There was lots to unpack: Gen Alpha’s fluidity, how play impacts identity, how companies are staking claims in the culture wars.

Faces of the future https://t.co/qu2ftSOAhN
— Eliana Dockterman (@edockterman) September 25, 2019

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https://time.com/5684822/mattel-gender-neutral-doll/

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BUT BUT BUT whaddabout how everyone, everyone, all colors and classes and sexes, is drawing on those exact same thick eyebrows all of a sudden?!!!

WTF is that about?

Sell your tweezer stock!!! Invest in eyebrow stencils!!!

Further: Who are the influencers that caused this? What else can they tell us about the future?!

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 5:03pm

YES! And not a single one with a unibrow. This sets an impossible beauty standard for young girls and is highly discriminatory against those with a unibrow.

ps: This shows the difference between those who have trained themselves to see and people like me. There's no way I ever would have noticed that.

by ocean-kat on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 5:56pm

Yes, thank you for the verification of my skills. I am actually trained to look at: where the money is going as to visual matters. Not that I am to profit off of it, unfortunately, just the opposite, supposed to be neutrally judging. I had to put monetary values on visuals, so I had to watch for trends, especially ones where large numbers of people are willing to put down cold hard cash to get the "image".

Everywhere I look I see these eyebrows! It's creepy. And yes you are correct to point out: no unibrows, proves I am not the smart investor type, so we still need plenty of tweezers and depilatories

by artappraiser on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 6:06pm

Like the kid in 6th Sense: "I see Dead Paintings"

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 6:37pm

More on eyebrows, in case, like me, you were still wondering. Here are some stats from 2014 before this trend started happening:

Women (29%) are significantly more likely to find 'thick' eyebrows more attractive than men (16%)--a difference that holds across racial and age groups. Is there an EvoPsych explanation for this? :p pic.twitter.com/TMlYlW1TNg
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) December 17, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 12:30am

Sure, treat The Dag as your own personal fetish site - we don't mind..

Now, if you get into shaving vs au natural, we're all ears (& eyes).

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 3:07am

'A Doll For Everyone': Meet Mattel's Gender-Neutral Doll

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