#Mattel #GenderNeutral #Barbie

Mattel Releases a “Gender-Neutral” Barbie and the Video Promoting it is Preposterous

Mattel launched a line of dolls with no distinctive feminine or masculine features because “kids don’t want their toys dictated by gender norms”. To promote the dolls, a video was released featuring actual “gender-neutral” children. And what is said during that video is completely baffling.

By Vigilant Citizen

The war against genders is still on. More than ever. After Céline Dion’s “gender-neutral” clothing line for children (which contained horrifying symbolism), Mattel has released dolls that assume no identifiable gender.

The gender-neutral dolls of the new Creatable World toy line let kids accessorize the toy to be a boy, a girl, both or neither. The six dolls have different skin colors, hairstyles, and clothing to “celebrate the positive impact of inclusivity.” Each customizable doll comes with long and short hair wigs, skirts, pants, shirts, jackets, hats, and various shoes. To achieve “gender-neutrality”, Mattel toned down feminine and masculine features, such as Barbie’s breasts and Ken’s broad shoulders. The line

#HellNoBarbie Campaign Warns About #HelloBarbie

a New Doll With Big Brother-ish Capabilities
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Hello #Barbie will be available in stores right in time for the holidays. A campaign entitled “Hell No Barbie” however seeks to inform consumers that this doll has the potential to severely violate their privacy.

In an attempt to revitalize its Barbie brand, Mattel will soon launch Hello Barbie, a Wi-Fi-connected doll with artificial intelligence. The doll “talks” to children by recording what they say and responding accordingly. All of the children’s interactions with the doll are recorded using a microphone and are sent to a remote server through Wi-Fi. The recorded voices are then interpreted by an algorithm in order to generate an

Hello #Barbie : The #Creepy #Doll That #Spies on #Kids … and their #Parents

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Mattel’s latest doll Hello Barbie dialogs with children, records their answers and sends the information back to a database via Wifi and Bluetooth.

Hello Barbie is “the world’s first interactive Barbie doll” … and it is rather creepy. Equipped with a microphone and internet connectivity, the doll asks questions to children, records their answers and send the information back to Mattel servers where it is filed and processed by a powerful algorithm.

Hello Barbie works by recording a child’s voice with an embedded microphone that is triggered by pressing a button on the doll. As the doll “listens,” audio recordings travel over the Web to a server