'Fascist' 'Barbie' Pulls Out All the Yawn-Inducing Feminist Tricks
Mattel had to make "Fascist" "Barbie" ironic adult blockbuster mocking itself with a preposterously plastic indictment of the patriarchy.
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Mattel had to make "Fascist" "Barbie" ironic adult blockbuster mocking itself with a preposterously plastic indictment of the patriarchy.
Anyone watching television in the last few months has been inundated with marketing for the “Barbie” movie. It wasn’t just in the movie commercials. It was in commercials for cars and other products. It was inserted into the plots of reality shows. It was everywhere. It’s not a movie I had any interest in seeing, whether it was a movie made for grade-school girls or a satirical sendup for the angry feminists.
Competing perspectives on the activist classroom now.
In the past two decades, a new, more radical form of progressivism has taken over American social and political life, even finding its way into the White House. Fresh instances of this new progressivism appear every day. For example: