BIG JIM.
For many years I have not seen Ken. I just spend the mornings in the street such as pensioners, watching the workers, concrete mixers, cranes. I imagined that he had divorced. Perhaps, I thought, finally did come out. Or is dead, I fantasized, committed suicide. I was certain, however, that it was outmoded and had stopped for ever to corrupt the young. The toys are our primary culture, subliminal messages of adult society to teach children.
Ken Carson came into the world in 1961. His hair pseudoveri at birth, which fell only if it gets wet, and so the plastic Mattel remade them to him. He had everything, the cicisbeo: shirts, foularini, moccasins, a tuxedo, a ski suit and the Tyrolean costume. He also had a camper and his girlfriend tall, beautiful and blonde. He was the dominant male model for the children of the seventies, though masculine never had anything. Each girl had a Barbie. Each had its own Barbie Ken. A sort of forerunner Boy Toy, a shaved poodle, decorative, companionship and always available. The couple had a vision of the future relationship between the equality: she was destined to become blonde and sexy, tits, ass and long legs, and anatomically designed foot to the heel 12, to please him but would have to shave, do gymnastics and elegant dressing, remaining essentially asexual. A eunuch unattainable and perfect. Sure, there was an alternative to the male market. The always gave Mattel a decade later, in 1971. It was called Big Jim, a Yankee with muscular face of a fool, that if the press the back let go karate chop. Like Ken lacked Wimp, but at least he had clothes and a male hobby. The bride, no. None if it was spinning. And the message remains unchanged: to be great pleasure for females you will be like Ken. The crisis the male is all began.
To find out what happened to those two by a toymaker, to feel safe to say that Ken is disgraced and Big Jim has taken over. Instead they tell me that Ken is still sold, and how the children love, there are many types (in 1993 they launched the model also gay), the more equipped.
is fine, the bastard. We have just redone the wardrobe, he is not never mattered more.
"Big Jim And you sell it?". The Toymaker grins: "They stopped producing it in 1986, 25 years ago." Dead as cowboys and soldiers.
"Oh, and dolls for boys are today?"
"Only monsters or superheroes."
"No human doll? No model articulated? "
" I would say no. "
Esco dazed, with a single sentence in my head: Only monsters and superheroes .. Why? Maybe it's a desperate exercise to prepare for future battle between the sexes, to avoid confrontation and not to succumb to the illusion. Only monsters or superheroes .. The only male creatures who still have hope.
(Vittorio Matonti)
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