If anyone was going to fix Barbie’s image problem, it was going to be Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
movie — directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell and more — will be myTo say I was a Barbie fan growing up is to put it mildly — I lived and breathed hot pink. On any given day, you could see dozens of dolls lining my bedroom floor, interspersed with small clothing and even smaller shoes, resembling a colourful explosion of plastic and fabric. But a few years after I graduated from toys to tampons, Barbie became uncool.
So when the early 2010s saw the beginnings of the body positivity movement, Barbie was one of the first pop culture icons to take a hit.around that time explored Barbie’s negative impact on young girls’ body expectations and self-esteem. Research also revealed how the toy perpetuated the feminine beauty ideal of a young, thin, straight, white, cis-gendered woman with blond hair and excluded the other 99 per cent of the population.
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