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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Toy Monster -- Barbie? What about Labor?


Mattel was the first toy company to take full advantage of modern technology in the Sixties.
Retrieved by Pat Darnell

"...This baby is a monster, it's a toddler..."

Mattel was founded in 1945 by Ruth and Elliot Handler. Until 1959, Mattel was known for the simple and conventional toys that they produced. All this changed with the success of the Barbie Doll (which Ruth designed from the Bild Lily and released in 1959...

"...the Japanese had not understood the subtleties of western sexual iconography..."

The book ["Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel," author Jerry Oppenheimer] alleges that Ryan patronized prostitutes, threw orgies and sought out women who looked like Barbie.
[SOURCE]
Anne Ryan, daughter of Jack Ryan recently said [in an email HERE]..."I am writing to you because I am the daughter of Jack Ryan, creator of the Barbie Doll. Yes, it was he who created her and not Ruth Handler...this has only been a recent claim of hers (i.e. since my father died in 1991). Anyway, I'm just trying to set the record straight...after all, I grew up with Barbie."

Mattel developed cutting-edge toys with the help of master electronic engineer Jack Ryan (who headed a large Research and Development staff). Ryan brought the pull-string, talking voice boxes for Mattel's dolls to the company.
Not the First Claim
Ryan's strange psychodynamics with the doll will be no surprise to those who know their toy history. Ryan always seemed to want Barbie to walk the line between sexy and skanky, and when the prototypes of the doll came back from Japan, he filed off the nipples because, according to The Telegraph, "the Japanese had not understood the subtleties of western sexual iconography."
He also was so enamored with Barbie's pull-string talk boxes that he had some fitted into the stone lions at his Bel Air mansion.
The eponymous Ken doll isn't scandal-free, either. The toy was named after the son of a Mattel founder. According to Oppenheimer, the real-life Ken grew up "humiliated" by the link, and became a closeted gay man who died of complications relating to AIDS.
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Oh, you know me so well: Solis: Labor Dept. Has ‘Obligation to Restore Trust and Hope’ of Workers
Dear Patrick H,
SUBJECT: Rep. Hilda Solis [Learn more about Rep. Hilda Solis on the AFL-CIO Now blog.
Rep. Hilda Solis, a four-term House member from California's 32nd Congressional District and a true friend of America's workers, appeared today before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in a confirmation hearing on her nomination to be labor secretary. Today, we had an opportunity to hear the first
extended discussion of how she plans to return the U.S. Department of Labor to its primary mission of protecting the lives, wages and rights of working people.
Solis is a longtime friend of the labor movement who comes to her understanding of unions and working people naturally—she is the daughter of immigrant working class, union member parents. Her dad was a Teamsters member and shop steward; her mom was an assembly line worker at a Mattel toy factory in Southern California and a member of the United Rubber Workers (since merged into the United Steelworkers).

Here at MooPig, we think the future is in "teaching workers how to vote..." thank you very much. Pat. Pend.

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