‘Barbie’: Ken Has Never Been Barbie’s Boyiend. He’s Her Gay BFF.

Contents:

• THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• WHAT OCCUPATNS HAVE THE HIGHT PROPORTN OF GAYS? REDDORS SAY…
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG THEIR ADOPTED BOYS

THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE

There is an unually high ncentratn of gay or lbian workers certa occupatns. For example, both gay men and lbians and are overreprented psychology, law, social work, and universy teachg.

And there are real occupatnal patterns behd some popular stereotyp, om the gay flight attendant to the lbian tck driver. To unrstand the occupatnal segregatn of gay and lbian workers, we examed two hypoth. ” So we predicted that gay men and lbians would be more likely to work occupatns wh higher task pennce (e.

Sce gay men and lbians tend to experience the threat of discrimatn om a young age, knowg how to read social cu might be an important acquired skill for the dividuals. Th we expected that gay men and lbians would be more likely to be jobs that require high levels of social perceptivens (e.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

Overall, our predictn is that gay and lbian workers will tend to ncentrate occupatns that provi a high gree of task pennce or require a high level of social perceptivens, or both.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

Consistent wh our predictns, both gay men and lbians tend to ncentrate occupatns that provi task pennce or require social perceptivens, or both.

Table 1 lists occupatns wh the hight jot proportn of gay and lbian workers. E., those which more than 50 percent of all workers are men) wh the hight proportn of gay workers and the hight proportn of lbian workers.

WHAT OCCUPATNS HAVE THE HIGHT PROPORTN OF GAYS? REDDORS SAY…

Occupatns wh the Hight Jot Proportn of Gay and Lbian Workers.

Female- and Male-Majory Occupatns wh Hight Proportn of Gay or Lbian Workers. Hight proportn of lbians among female workersHight proportn of gay men among male workers. Our fdgs suggt that gay and lbian workers might be drawn to a different set of occupatns than heterosexual workers and perhaps brg wh them a distct set of skills to the occupatns.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Gay and lbian workers probably veloped some of the skills as a rult of social adaptatn to discrimatn. As a rult, gay men and lbians may lose their skill for social perceptivens, which may make them ls distct the labor market. Occupatnal patterns are ually slow to change bee they ntue to reflect earlier tnal and reer choic and bee the gay- or lbian-iendly reputatn of an occupatn n persist for a long time and ntue to draw gay and lbian workers.

This article is based on the thors’ paper Concealable Stigma and Occupatnal Segregatn: Toward a Theory of Gay and Lbian Occupatns, Admistrative Science Quarterly, 2015, 60(3): 446-481. He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters.

In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet. But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory.

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends. ” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual.

), and of urse, and earrg the “gay ear”. ) Earrg Magic Ken turned Barbie’s boyiend to an out-and-proud homosexual raver. Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns. While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg!

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG THEIR ADOPTED BOYS

Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat.

“People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. “One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.

Sometim ’s isolatg to be out as gay at work. Y, seems some l of work are more gay-male-iendly than others, and Reddors listed those profsns a recent r/askgaybros thread when one person asked, “We all know the stereotyp, but what occupatn do you thk has the most gays? “There are a surprisg number of gays EMS.