Barbie and Ken splitting up? Oh, please...

Steve Hall made the call on AdRants on Monday. Yes, Boobgate will result in a flurry of new and stupid publicity stunts. But no stunt I've seen to date is as stupid and whorish as Mattel's announcement that toyland's perpetual couple, Barbie and Ken, are splitting up. You've gotta be freaking kidding me with this.

I know Ken is not exactly anatomically correct, but neither is Barbie. Neither of these things is an excuse to pull a flagrantly whorish publicity stunt that sacrifices a 40-year-old image of marital happiness for kids everywhere. The only silver lining in this cloud is that Middle America might rebel against this dumbass idea and stop buying Barbie products for their children out of fear that they'll get the wrong idea about divorce.

I mean, we all knew that she was getting some on the side from G.I. Joe, but still...