Should we be protesting the Barbie movie?

[jamiepan (imported)]

The only recent (and ancient) appropriation that continues even now in plays, is the habit directors have had through the decades of casting WOMEN as Peter Pan.

I was an underdeveloped, consciously gay little nerdling of a 10 year old when Mom and Dad told us we were going to a play about Peter Pan (I think it was called Neverland Again or something), and at the big, professional stage, too, so it was gonna be a great show! We went to a lot of plays when I was a kid in the 70's.

The actress, of course, turned out to be a 24 year old lady. I was so mad; tears, anger, all barely held in. Fortunately, Mom and Dad thought I was just angry at the subterfuge of using a 'more capable' adult woman for the roll rather than a kid. I could absolutely not tell them I was already fully in love with the boy in the poster art, which was drawn, not a photo.

I've held a tiny piece of hatred for every production that uses a woman for that roll ever since!

(to address the original post, I never knew anyone with a barbie growing up; my sister didn't like dolls and I just couldn't get into 'action figures' at all. I did split a Gumby in half by pulling his legs apart, though; I did note he was as smooth as a Ken doll down there before I renered him in twain)

[Paolo]

You tore Gumby in half?!

I remember I had a Gumby and Pokey set that were rubber cast over wire, so they could be posed. I played with those toys until dry rot took them away. Then it was like Zombie-Pokey with wires sticking out.

[Losethem (imported)]

You mean I’m stuck with this sh!t?!

Yes, unless you wanna pay for it. I said if I had the money, not that I did.

I'm staring down the barrel of retirement in the next few years. To afford it, I'll probably have to move abroad and hope the US doesn't become a cesspool of economic despair, to make through the years from retirement to death. And I'm doing better than many.

[JessicaH (imported)]

ABC tried to make the actor who played Robin (Batman) take chemical castration pills to shrink his package. He tried it for 3 days and said, “he’ll no”! https://rare.us/rare-humor/batman-burt-ward-penis/