Barbie is Not the Only Doll Diva to Inspire Devotion
metroweekly.comBarbie movie marketing.Surely, I’d rather be at some protest or another, adding my substantial decibels to the righteous ruckus as we collectively shout, “No justice, no peace!” or “This is what democracy looks like!” or a dozen other cheery chestnuts.My go-to for news and pop-culture takes, The Guardian, offered a critique that might echo my own.
Natasha Walter, author of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, therein wrote, “Mattel’s dedication to using feminist language to sell more and more plastic flotsam to women seems to me to be a poor return on our former dreams of thoroughgoing social change.”Certainly, I have not seen Barbie.
But I might. After all, I have a beloved doll of my own. I’m looking at his adorable visage this very moment. His name is Hugo.There were Barbies in the home when I was a child.
They belonged to my sister, Megan, nine years my senior. She didn’t play with the dolls so much as manage them. She had some iteration of a Barbie dream car.
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