Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar Barbie is an unwitting and hilarious send-up of feminist indoctrination.
Liberal moms will describe Barbie as “empowering” and “uplifting,” but that misses the point. We're no longer living in a throwback feminist world. Barbie is a fantasy of a feminist world long gone.
Oh, Greta Gerwig, what I am to do with your billion-dollar Barbie? First, kudos to you and your life/writing partner Noah Baumbach for managing to jam four years’ worth of women's studies pablum into a mainstream musical comedy about a plastic toy made by slave labor in Asia. Your Stereotypical Barbie (the always meticulous Margot Robbie) is perfectly…
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