The story of Gay Bob, the controversial 1970s doll that would be just plain offensive today

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Photos via Christy Havranek/Huffington Post. 1977: what a year, one which many of you will remember clearly. Apple Computer, Inc. was incorporated; palaeontologist Elso Barghoorn annouced he found a 3.4 billion year old one-celled fossil, which was the…

Barbie dolls are finally inspiring kids to achieve excellence, not just the perfect bod.

  BY: Zoe Melnyk The Barbie doll was created almost 60 years ago, back in 1959, and not much about it has changed since. Sure, the occupation of Barbie has expanded; she can be a nurse, a teacher, a flight…

The “Wholesome” Barbie Doll is based on a German call girl

BY: EDITORS Since March 1959, Barbie became the first sexualized toy marketed to the masses as the paragon of American femininity and wholesomeness. But while Mattel would have little girls believe that Barbie’s origins were Harvard-educated parents and that her…