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Just to be clear, Drag Queen Barbie isn't really a guy, and despite her love of fur, a smoky eye, and diamonds, she isn't a cross dresser. So if that was stopping you, Mattel says it's totally okay for you to buy her.
Mattel's apparently gender-bending Barbie, co-designed by and resembling a famous drag queen, looks a lot like any other Barbie.
The Simpsons have now joined Barbie as targets of an Iranian crackdown, putting one of the iconic blonde doll's biggest critics on the same blacklist as her.
Amid its saber rattling over the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has opened a new front in its confrontation with the West: A renewed crackdown on Barbie dolls and the stores that sell them.
Your eyes are fooling you. This isn't the latest Hoarders episode, but rather an art project from photographer/artist Carrie M. Becker, who used 1/6 scale miniatures to envision "a more 'current' view of Barbie's lifestyle" entitled Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse.
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