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Hot takes, cold takes, pink takes, patriarchy takes, mother/daughter takes: 'Barbie' offers grist for every media mill

The author of “Reviving Ophelia” chats about her interpretation of “Barbie,” her favorite scenes, and why men should enjoy the movie too.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Warner Bros.Mary Pipher used to denounce Barbie dolls.Barbies were exactly what Pipher—whose 1994 non-fiction book Reviving Ophelia inspired the plot of Barbie, according to director Greta Gerwig—strived to warn girls about in her writing. Girls shouldn’t need to have a figure like Barbie, she said, nor a perfectly symmetrical face or smooth blonde hair to be beautiful. “To totally accept the cultural definitions of femininity and confo

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Warner Bros.No one can beat Greta Gerwig at the tricky game of writing a memorable monologue.Barbie only proves this further. Gerwig has already given us great speeches with Saoirse Ronan, who was responsible for both Lady Bird’s “Did you feel emotional the first time you drove in Sacramento” speech and “Women, they have minds and they have souls as well as hearts” line from Little Women. In Barbie, Gerwig trades her mainstay for Americ