Life in plastic is fantastic. Life in a muted, almost under-water environment where rich people with treatable psychiatric problems live lives of attractive nihilism is also very good. Such we shall likely see in the long-awaited “Barbie” movie, which signed filmmakers Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach as co-writers this week, The Hollywood Reporter announced this…
The best revenge is living well. The very, very best revenge is becoming an international sensation whose name is synonymous with success and then being made into a Barbie. Oprah Winfrey had a very, very difficult childhood. And now she is getting the best kind of revenge. You wouldn’t know it from the way Oprah…
Are you the kind of person who is kept up at night thinking, “Mattel’s Ken doll has such an unrealistic body! No one has that much time for the gym!”? Have you ever dared to hope that Mattel might one day acknowledge that men come in a variety of shapes and sizes? Are you the…
Barbie just got a makeover. In , Mattel announced that the doll – once frozen in time like a carbonite Marilyn Monroe only skinnier – will now come in different sizes and skin tones. Some are saying the change comes too late but I for one am happy. I tried my best to raise a…
The announcement this week that Mattel is launching a new line of Barbie dolls with “realistic” bodies was greeted with cheers in the feminist community. It was a welcome response to a decades-long struggle against the ubiquitous commercial messages that an ideal woman should have a ridiculous body size and shape – unattainably thin limbs,…
“You know Barbie’s getting a new job,” says my friend Mimi to me. “People can vote for her new career.” I put tefillin on a Mattel Barbie doll in 2006, unwittingly creating the Jewish icon now known as Tefillin Barbie Tefillin Barbie has a religious-girl denim skirt, a T-shirt, the tallit and tefillin more generally…
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