Perspective: We love her. We loathe her. We can’t stop thinking about her. We can’t wait to see the Greta Gerwig-directed film about her.
and was developed into an 11.5-inch full-figured female doll as a gag gift for men.
Not to victim-blame, but there’s something about Barbie that makes you want to do it. She’s perfect. A littleperfect. How does it feel to make the doll with the Dreamhouse and the impossible waist suffer a bit? Children are sadists. So why did Grayson and his sister mutilate their Barbies? “I don’t know,” he says, laughing. “I need to call my therapist.”“Repeat after me. I am strong. I am loved. I am unique. I can be anything.” Broadcast through the heart-shaped speaker of a Black Barbie — my daughter’s Barbie Breathe with Me Meditation Doll — those words are especially radical. And the gag is: My 6-year-old doesn’t even get it.
In the real universe, here’s why that relationship status matters: Well into the 1960s, professions like teaching and nursing permitted women to be fired if they got married. Women couldn’t independently hold credit cards without their husbands co-signing until 1974. Until 1978, it was still legal to fire a woman in the United States for getting pregnant; until 1981, a man could take out a second mortgage on the family home without informing his wife.
, which will beget more merchandise. In the lead-up to the premiere, Barbie has teamed up with Xbox for a console that looks like a playhouse, NYX for a cosmetics line and Dragon Glassware for pink martini glasses.
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