{"id":3670,"date":"2014-06-17T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:38:19","slug":"i-really-like-the-life-in-the-dreamhouse-web-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/06\/17\/i-really-like-the-life-in-the-dreamhouse-web-series\/","title":{"rendered":"I really like the Life in the Dreamhouse Web series…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…with Barbie and all her friends because, for the most part, it manages to balance light humor at no one’s expense with slapstick and clever in-jokes. Midge as snorting, safety-obsessed introvert who talks like the 1950s also cracks me up — and she’s so cute when she appears in Smidge of Midge in greyscale!<\/p>\n

I also really like Ken, who ultimately ends up being portrayed as just another character who happens to be Barbie’s boyfriend, rather than the major plot motor and deus ex machina<\/em> of the series. He’s goofy and utterly devoted to Barbie [“Barbie sense…tingling…”] and supremely confident enough in his masculinity to invent a super-sophisticated closet for all his girlfriend’s clothes. In other words, rather than having gay panic over activities often coded as queer, Ken does IT, back-end programming for the Super Style Squad [actually saying, “Beep boop bop,” with Skipper as they hit buttons ^_^ ]. I can’t tell you how happy I am to see a cartoon where all the characters, male and female, take fashion, style, clothing, etc., etc., etc., seriously, and no one shits on it for being trivially feminine. That’s actually kind of revolutionary.<\/p>\n

Life in the Dreamhouse would be even better if it ditched its racism and ableism. For example:<\/p>\n