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My name is Antonio Cerna and I'm from Dallas, Texas.
I was filling out one of those online surveys recently
my cousin always spams us with all these emails like “get to know your family.” And you fill out a questionnaire.
One of the questions was “what was your favorite toy growing up?”
And I had to think about it because my memories of the toys I had growing up was very vague.
The thing is I didn’t have…I don’t remember my toys that well.
What I do remember is my sister’s Barbie dolls.
She had tons of them. She had black ones, Asian ones, Latino ones, every kind of Barbie ethnicity.
And I was intrigued by them.
I was intrigued by these little humanoid things that we would play with, these little people.
And I would design fashion lines for these dolls for my sister out of my mom’s old *** hose.
Like, entire collections: this is the “evening look,” and this is the “summer afternoon look.”
It was always a fall collection because the pantyhose were always brown or nude colored.
So it was always very subdued color palate.
Then I went to go visit cousins and I realized and I learned that little boys are not supposed to play with barbies.
I didn’t realize that that’s not what little boys are supposed to do. Nobody gave me a hand book.
It was like, this is how little boys behave. I was just going with the flow and the flow was I like these Barbie outfits.
So yeah, I was the little cousin who was playing with barbies.
And now I’m gay. Thank you, Mattel!