Mattel Designers To Meet With AZ Couple To Discuss A Same-Sex Marriage Barbie Set

“Progressivism.” This is what it looks like.

Meet Matt Jacobi and Nick Caprio. They’re a gay couple planning a wedding next year, but they’ve encountered a slight issue. You see, they wanted to give a Barbie wedding set that reflected their, um, situation, to their niece, but they only managed to find traditional marriage sets. You know– Ken and Barbie. So what did they have to do? They had to buy a separate Ken doll to create their own set.

They just wanted to give their niece a toy that matched their reality, but this couple’s makeshift doll pairing has inspired toymaker Mattel to consider creating a same-sex Barbie wedding set https://t.co/5Hq0W0GvUz pic.twitter.com/jXtyjVccQt

— CNN (@CNN) December 17, 2018

“We went online and we also went through Target and Walmart and were just searching and we found this awesome wedding set from Mattel and it was almost perfect,” Jacobi said.

“So we bought another Ken, who was in a tux, and took out Barbie and added another Ken in, tied it together and gave Natalie the gift and her reaction was priceless,” Jacobi added.

THE HORROR!!!!! Obviously, they had to bring their dilemma to Mattel’s attention. For some reason completely beyond me, two designers for Mattel have agreed to meet with them to discuss it.

“For them to reach out and take to social media shows the power of your voice on social media,” Caprio said. “It was great to be able to contact them and we’re really excited to see where this goes and work with them.”

“It’s going to come up in your family, no matter what. As more same-sex couples are having kids, your kids are going to have kids in the class that have gay parents and things like that, too, so it’s not this huge shock anymore,” he continued.

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— Matt Jacobi (@MattJacobi) December 17, 2018

I don’t see why this is necessary. Whether people like it or not, traditional marriage– between a man and a woman– will always be *THE* number one, most common marriage. It’s how the world works. It’s how biology works. That’s reality. I don’t think it’s healthy to cloud a child’s mind with the complexities of same-sex marriage. Whether you like it or not, it’s not reflective of the norm. That’s not homophobic. That doesn’t mean I hate gay people, fear gay people or think less of gay people. It means that I recognize REALITY, and REALITY is that traditional marriage– between a man and a woman– is NORMAL. I can’t even believe I need to justify my reason for stating that.

It just goes to show how hypersensitive and ridiculous this world has become.

Gay marriage Barbie sets are not necessary. The end.

h/t WOKV