Flip the Script: Not fitting in — Allan

Andrea Hylen
6 min readApr 26, 2024

Day One hundred-three:

Not fitting in — Allan

And then there was Allan.

By Jim Palmer

There has been a lot of discussion about who Allan was meant to represent in the Barbie movie. The Allan doll was named after the son-in-law of Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler. The first Allan doll was released in 1964. He was marketed

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Andrea Hylen

Founder of Heal My Voice and The Incubator. Life Scientist. Live house-free. Widow. Mom of Adult Daughters. Grief. Writing Sexuality. Evolutionary Woman