Film/TV Sep 19, 2023 at 1:30 pm

Barbie Land Centers Women in a Fun Mid-Century Fever Dream. But Its Splendors—and Its Limitations—Are All Too Real.

Barbie star Margot Robbie (left) with director Greta Gerwig. This is what women's college is like, basically. Gareth Cattermole / Getty

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1

"It’s giving corporate feminism,
even if it’s also really fun, way
existential corporate feminism."

first came the Profiteerers
then came the bean counters
and then came the Psychologists
and by Then we were ALL Hooked

buy 'n large

2

It was also fun.

Oppenheimer ... um ... not as much

3

The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the post-gendered society’s elites at play.

4

Interesting article Megan. No plans to watch Barbie but enjoyed your comments as to what Smith (or a women’s college in general) was like in the era you attended. I like the Stranger as it enables people to learn new things and insights different from one’s experience. From a guy who went to Central Washington State in Ellensburg during the late 1960’s.

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You mean in that both are in the business of peddling that most post-modern of consumer goods, Aspirational Victimhood™?


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