movie review
How do you solve a problem like Barbie?
For six decades, the Mattel doll has been the vessel for our aspirations, ambivalence, endless analysis and outright hostility.
Beloved by generations of girls and women who played for hours with Barbie and her pals Ken, Midge, Skipper and Allan, using the impossibly proportioned “play-size” version of grown-ups to spin their own life narratives, Barbie is just as despised for perpetuating the worst of an inherently sexist culture, from her simultaneously desexed and hyper-sexualized physique to representing feminism at its most commodified and co-opted.
Is Barbie a vexingly contradictory cultural touchstone or just a fun, nostalgic toy? A vessel for
