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    Commentary: Is the message of ‘Barbie' all it’s cracked up to be?

    by Karen Stabiner, Los Angeles Times Jan 09, 2024 3 minutes
    Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in Warner Bros.

    I’m not a Barbie fan. She made me and my friends feel bad about ourselves for being built like real girls, back in the day. I only reluctantly watched the movie, once it was free on a streaming service, so I could participate in the national debate.

    And then I got seduced, a little bit, by the movie’s sly, subversive charm. Recently, younger women have explained to me that feminism is irrelevant to their lives, so I am grateful when a

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