Stop Calling Barbie “Escapist Fun”
For the most part, Barbie has held fast to its reputation as an old school work of art in the (im)pure studio system sense of the word. Hand-painted…
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Blow Up the Patriarchy, Or: The Barbenheimer Experience
Perhaps what they don’t warn you about with regard to “the Barbenheimer experience” is just how jarring it actually is. Certainly, that’s the entire “point” of pairing these…
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In Barbie, As In Life, Patriarchy Is the Insidious Force Turning Women’s Lives Upside Down
It’s among the few mononyms that invoke an immediate visceral reaction—whether reverent or contemptuous—within people. God. Madonna. Barbie. And, like the aforementioned Italian-American pop star, Barbie, too, is…
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