Mattel asks women to be bosses, not to fight them. We get to laugh at the patriarchy but not fear corporations.
does race and gender reasonably well. Consider when Ryan Gosling as Ken, fascinated by the sexist real world, exclaims, “Why didn’t Barbie tell me about patriarchy?” Or his comment that “horses are just men extenders.” Of course, the highlight is America Ferrera’s powerful monologue about what it is to be a woman that “wakes up” all the brainwashed Barbies. No prince’s kiss or “white savior Barbie” for Greta Gerwig.is strong on, and often hilarious about, gender and race.
This is a Hilary Clinton campaign speech. Not the everyday advice working-class mothers are forced to give their daughters worldwide to make sure they at least get through high school, or that they come home safe at night from their call center job. A bourgeois childhood ideal where we seek successcapitalism, is portrayed as universal, made more acceptable being voiced by a woman of color. Mattel, unsurprisingly, asks women to be bosses, not to fight them.
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