Some of you may already know that Robert, our now-six-year-old, has been a little, well, confused, gender-wise, for some time. He likes girly toys, like mermaid dolls, he likes girly images, like unicorns, and he frequently pretends to be a girl, namely Vanessa the Fembot.
In an effort to be hip, modern, with-it parents, we have tried to be accommodating – we even got Santa to bring Robert a Barbie for Christmas (along with her beach buggy and a Ken doll (who now has real hair, by the way)). We have watched unicorn movies with him (although I draw the line at Angelina Ballerina, the cartoon about the white mouse who whines and cries incessantly).
Having said that, we were nonetheless thrilled that Robert expressed a strong desire for the scary Darth Vader voice-changing helmet. So last weekend, for Robert’s 6th birthday, we gave him the helmet.
Later that evening, a tiny yet terrifying heavy breather stomped up to Dr. T and said “Muahaha! Do you know who I am?” Dr. T, who’s not just a pretty face, said “You must be Darth Vader!”
To which the helmeted figure replied “No – I am Darth Vader’s wife!! Muahaha!”
Sigh.
When you say that Ken has real hair, do you mean, like, human hair?
I mean that his hair is no longer a smooth plastic head cover, but is now actual strands of what I assume is not human hair, but a synthetic fibre of some kind.
Also, just to further clarify, I mean that Ken dolls in general now come with “real hair,” not that this particular one has somehow been modified.
You have to admit that any woman who would marry Darth Vader would be pretty freakin scary….
I’m not sure a woman is the right man for the job of being Darth Vader’s wife…
Ruth Vader-Ginsburg?
Now that is worthy of a ROTFL. Well done.
Actually, (in Comic Book Guy voice) Darth Vader IS married. To Natalie Portman, no less. Which make me wonder why he didn’t just ask for a Queen Amadala mask.
Oh, and I think the term they use for Ken’s hair is “life-like”.
There are no words to describe how bdocaiuos this is.
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