Borough Barbie

In one of the most off-base "jokes", this website creates neighborhood Barbies, including: Red Hook Barbie (comes with a GED and Gangsta Ken?!), Lower East Side Barbie (carries a 9MM?!), and Park Slope Barbie (pictured), described as:

"This doll is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair, arch-less feet, hairy armpits, no makeup and Birkenstocks with white socks. She prefers that you call her Willow. She does not want or need a Ken doll, but if you purchase two Park Slope Barbies and the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag bumper sticker for free."

What about the strollers? What about the kindie rockers? Keep up with the times if you're going to spend all that time making poorly crafted photoshop images. [via Lindsayism]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on February 7, 2007 11:23 AM

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hs

I don't get the low arches joke.

Judi

There was a zine in the early 90s that satired Barbies. Mattel shut them down. Love how these ideas get "recycled" every 10 years or so.

okki

crap like this is not funny to me. (and no, i don't live in park slope. i'm in queens, thanks.)

MC

Thirded on starfishncoffee's response - I've seen this for Seattle, as well.

MC

Thirded on starfishncoffee's response - I've seen this for Seattle, as well.

T.R.

starfishncoffee is right, I just got a Detroit version of this e-mailed to me not too long ago that is basically the same thing.

matty

i thought snl covered this with gangster bitch barbie back in the early 90's.

Jen

Hilarious! But UWS Barbie seems more like UES Barbie. I think UWS Barbie would be a single professional lady of a certain age with an adopted Chinese baby.

starfishncoffee

This same set of Barbies has been floating around for just about every metropolitan area. With the same text, just the suburbs/neighborhoods/boroughs are different (hence the lack of Park Slope strollers, etc). I recently received Austin and Dallas in my inbox.

a

So one pretty actress gets killed and they tag the lower east side with a 9mm accessory. not only are these poorly photoshopped, they are also not very well thought out.

it seems to me that the LES should be represented by a guy with baggy, frayed jeans, a long wool coat and stripey shirt. don't forget the spikey, gelled hair!