Nickolay Lamm wanted to design a doll with proportions more representative of the average woman.

Greta Gerwig's eye-popping film is a good time, except for how much Ryan Gosling steals Margot Robbie's thunder

Mattel sues Bratz creator Carter Bryant. Looks like there's only room for one lushly proportioned polyurethane poppet in town.

A gaggle of earnest dolls in historic costumes are threatening to dethrone Barbie. How'd they do it?

They just had to put her in pink?

Little girls can't be won over with a Barbie commander-in-chief, even if she comes complete with Snapchat

Not every trans person identifies with a hyper-feminine or über-masculine gender stereotype

Relentless culture war is making Republican voters increasingly alienated — like members of a fading cult

Babble stages a parental "smackdown" on the topic, but the plastic dolly wins over both sides.

In a beautifully ironic move, Betty, Don, Roger and Joan all get the Mattel treatment

Essential facts about her checkered past.

Barbie cosmetics are coming soon to a playground near you.

Mattel is making a pink Barbie computer and a blue Hot Wheels computer, but why is it choosing such different software for each?

Professional funny women weigh in on the world's most anatomically incorrect children's toy.