One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for April 28, 2013

To be fair, Ken doesn’t have anything that definitively tells gender, either.

He’s Gone – Grateful Dead Listen at 1:35 for the troll’s line.

She knows about bras already? But I’m impressed at how well she’s taking the fact that Joe shot Ken onto the roof. Or did she get tired of Ken?

Hilarious!

@susan newman Yep, pretty much

When I was a little girl (long before Barbie and Ken) I had 2 dolls (the first one was mesed up by my attempt at “makeup” using nail polish) and there WERE no male dolls (especially I did not have) so my 2 stuffed animals had to do.

The panda was the king and the floppy bunny was the prince (long floppy ears and all). Come to think of it, the boy next door had red hair and big ears too;-)

I love this comic, and Ruthie’s imagination reminds me of myself. I still have as much imagination as a child, but can use it in visualization of anything – foods and memories of stuff.

So in Ruthie’s imagination Ken and Barbie have separate beds and apparently separate rooms. Also, it’s a loving father who can not only be in the same room with his daughter playing with dolls, but who is paying attention to the action.

Well, doesn’t a child base gender of a strange child on hair length, clothing, and name? All of which have become unreliable over the last two generations. Even if the child knows about the physical difference he/she may not realize that THAT is the accepted dividing line. In all it was probably just a more “family friendly” way of saying, “If I was an adult girl I’d have protruding breasts.”

Car wrecks? This is apparently the Lohan/Spears/Hilton version of Barbie.

I didn’t know Ruthie had a Lindsay Lohan doll!

Some men do.