I’m continuing the Barbie theme from my previous post with a post on her origin story. Apparently, while Barbie was named for it’s creators daughter, the original inspiration came from a German doll called Bild Lilli. That in turn was inspired by a German comic strip from the 1950’s.
The exact nature of the original Lilli seems to be open to some question. Descriptions online vary from a sassy and aggressive party girl, through sugar baby to straight out escort. She was obviously a male fantasy figure, but seems to have been portrayed with a lot of character and agency. There’s probably a PHD or two to be had in tracing and analyzing the lineage of the character from the original Lilli to the modern movie incarnation.
The caption apparently reads “Do you have time, Hugo? I’m in a horribly bad mood and I have no one to let off steam on.”
Just me or Germany is the non english-speaking country with the greatest amount of dommes?
Maybe it has something with the legendary german discipline?
They’ve got to be a strong contender for it. Japan is the only other non-English speaking one that could be close. And Germany definitely seems to have the best facilities of any country, English speaking or otherwise.
-paltego