Essay: Being a Barbie girl in a first-gen immigrant world

10 months ago

Why Oscar nominee America Ferrera doesn’t mind the ‘Barbie’ haters out there

LA Times

As film academy members begin final voting for the 2024 Oscars on Thursday, our latest episode of “The Envelope” features America Ferrera talking about how “Barbie” has expanded her opportunities beyond Latina roles and why she loves the feminist debates about her monologue in the film. And Mark, another film that I was really struck by was “Poor Things.” And …

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1 year ago

‘Barbie’s’ influence hasn’t slowed down. Pink Crocs and gender equality, anyone?

LA Times

One of the earlier images released of Margot Robbie as Barbie before the film premiered in July and went on to create a lifestyle sensation. The trailer promised that “if you love Barbie,” and “if you hate Barbie,” then “this movie is for you.” For those put off by Stereotypical Barbie’s straight blond hair, white skin and impossible figure, the …

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1 year ago

Mixed Emotions Surround Barbie Doll Honoring Iconic Cherokee Leader

Huff Post

OKLAHOMA CITY — An iconic chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, inspired countless Native American children as a powerful but humble leader who expanded early education and rural healthcare. Her reach is now broadening with a quintessential American honor: a Barbie doll in the late Mankiller’s likeness as part of toymaker Mattel’s “Inspiring Women” series. “Mixed emotions shared by …

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1 year, 4 months ago

A love letter to Weird Barbie

LA Times

Dear Weird Barbie, I’ve seen videos of what the others look like. As someone who never really felt like they knew how to play with dolls “correctly,” Barbie seemed untouchable to me. You, Weird Barbie, gave Barbie — gave me — permission to be all of the things she isn’t: off-putting, awkward, a hodgepodge of colors and feelings that some …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Women's Favorite 'Barbie' Movie Moments Prove Why The Movie Is So Important

Huff Post

"For me, it was when Barbie tells the old woman that she’s beautiful, and she responds, 'I know it.' Moments whenever I feel physically ugly or not accomplished enough, I try to think, 'How would older me look back on this moment?' ""Telling an older woman she is beautiful — it’s so rare to be told this after a certain …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Column: The ‘Barbie’ movie’s radical message: We all need more ‘Kenpathy’

LA Times

Greta Gerwig’s box office hit “Barbie” may be a comedy, but many viewers are taking it seriously. In the film, Ryan Gosling’s Ken feels marginalized in Barbie Land, where Barbies rule everything and Kens are second-class citizens. Spoiler alert: After Robbie’s Barbie and America Ferrera’s Gloria, a Latina mom from the real world, work together to dismantle the Kendom, Gosling’s …

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1 year, 4 months ago

We’re Living in a Two-Barbie System

Slate

Welcome to the glittering, pink dawn of our post-Barbie landscape. The editor in chief of Human Events called the movie “an anti-motherhood, man-hating tangle of daddy issues.” A critic for the Wall Street Journal said the script was “like a grumpier-than-average women’s studies seminar.” For the New York Post, Piers Morgan declared: “If I made a movie that treated women …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Column: What ‘Barbie’ teaches us about the beauty of growing old

LA Times

I was 5 ½ when Barbie was born. But speaking of “Barbie’s” message, I was inspired by my visit with actress Mimi Rogers and hearing her thoughts on aging naturally and with grace. And I began researching love among older adults after interviewing a woman who emailed me to say that, at 71, she’s enjoying a robust affair with an …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Fans reveal how they are using Barbie as the ultimate ‘relationship test’

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Latinx Files: A roundtable discussion on Latinidad in ‘Barbie’

LA Times

Like many of you, I too went to the theater this weekend to watch “Barbie.” My initial plan was to write about the movie for the newsletter, but eventually decided that “man writes take about ‘Barbie’” was not the way to go. I should preface this by saying that I enjoyed the movie immensely, but couldn’t help but think of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Why I'm passing on the "Barbie" movie: My daughter already receives enough unintentional whiteness

Salon

My three-year-old daughter screamed "Barbie"! I've been an Issa Rae fan since the "Awkward Black Girl" web series days; as a matter of fact, I may have watched HBO's "Insecure" more times than her, so I was beyond excited. It's wild that the first Barbie doll dropped in 1959, and even though Black people were everywhere, we didn't get a …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How watching ‘Barbie’ with my teenage daughter helped us both

Live Mint

I took my daughter to see Barbie last weekend. Unless you are living in a plastic box, there is no way you could have escaped the marketing campaign of Barbie, the brand-new movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and directed by Greta Gerwig. Despite my family’s long history with the Barbie—as an adolescent, I got Barbie when she first …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Greta Gerwig did not expect a right-wing takedown of ‘Barbie’: ‘There’s a lot of passion’

LA Times

“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig says she was surprised by the conservative takedown of her feminist feature, but she hopes everyone who sees it can get some “relief.” Emerging from a pink-hued fever dream and a box-office smash, Greta Gerwig is unpacking the success of “Barbie.” One thing the director did not anticipate having to discuss, though, is how right-wing pundits …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Juhi Parmar pens open letter to Barbie for ‘inappropriate language, sexual connotations,' internet says she's ignorant

Hindustan Times

Juhi's reservations against Barbie Juhi Parmar took to Instagram on Monday and posted a four-page open letter to the new Barbie movie. A user wrote in the comment section of Juhi's Instagram post, “Yk instead of posting a review based on 10-15 minutes of the movie, maybe try watching the entire thing and then form an opinion? If you watched …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The "Barbie" backlash isn't just cynical: The GOP is abusing its own supporters

Salon

For much of the country over this past weekend, the release of the movie "Barbie" was an unapologetically joyous occasion. Like every other member of the GOP and right-wing punditariat who tantrumed over "Barbie," he likely doesn't believe a single word he's saying. The anti-trans argument of the "Barbie" backlash, like the Bud Light boycott, is predicated on the vicious …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie makes her big screen debut to much acclaim

China Daily

The movie Barbie has been released in China since July 21. Sixty-four years after the first Barbie toy was launched in the United States, a live-action movie is bringing the famous doll to life on the big screen. Barbie, the fantasy comedy which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, simultaneously opened across China and North America on July 21, receiving …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Just 18 Great Responses To People Calling ‘Barbie’ Man-Hating, Feminist Trash

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING You could say “Barbie” fans are going “Oppenheimer” on some far-right criticisms of the film. Late last week, some fans of the patriarchy attempted to discourage people from going to see the new “Barbie” movie, with one critic on Twitter calling it a “two-hour woke-a-thon” full of “nuclear-level rage against men.” Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro seemed to …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The real reason behind the Barbie movie backlash

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie, review: Ryan Gosling steals the show in the most improbable triumph of the year

The Telegraph

Anthropologists believe there may be tribes living in the farthest reaches of the Amazon basin who have yet to catch sight of the marketing campaign for the new Barbie film, but for the rest of us the damn thing has been melting our eyeballs for weeks. So it’s an unexpected pleasure to report that Greta Gerwig’s film – while still …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Read the stirring monologue about womanhood America Ferrera delivers in ‘Barbie’

LA Times

America Ferrera talks about her character’s rousing speech about womanhood in the “Barbie” film: “It just hit me as the truth.” Warning: The following contains spoilers for “Barbie.” Anyone who played with Barbie as a kid will tell you that their make-believe scenarios — fights between friends, trips to the doctor, frantic searches for shoes before a fashion show starts …

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1 year, 5 months ago

How feminists are catching up to Barbie: She's everything – and has always been subversive

Salon

The pink trailer for Greta Gerwig's clever, campy meta-comedy "Barbie" was viewed 42 million times on its way to becoming the top grossing movie in the country, proving that the iconic doll is the hottest 64-year-old around. "Barbie was everything we didn't want to be... everything the feminist movement was trying to escape," Gloria Steinem said in the 2018 documentary …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘My collection must be into the thousands’: Meet the adults hooked on buying Barbies

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Barbie’ review: A sweet, safe satire

Live Mint

In Věra Chytilová’s Daisies, Marie I and Marie II, two women introduced as human-size marionettes, commit to anarchy. Sent to Weird Barbie for counsel, she’s told she must travel to the real world and track down the Barbie owner responsible for her blues. The owner she's looking for, an angsty tween named Sasha, has long since given up playing with …

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1 year, 5 months ago

De Los readers reflect on their complicated relationship with Barbie

LA Times

For decades, Barbie has been a household name and central to the childhoods of many. “Mostly scenarios I saw from the novelas my parents would watch.” Above all, the Barbie doll made Romero believe that she, too, could live in a Barbie world. “They also inspired me to believe that one day I could own a beach house, drive around …

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1 year, 5 months ago

'Barbie'' Shows That Feminism Has Limitations

Huff Post

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling star in the Greta Gerwig-directed "Barbie," which has raised the most intriguing question: Is it a feminist movie? Here, the eponymous doll — or Stereotypical Barbie, as the character herself owns — is embodied to perfection by a wide-eyed Margot Robbie, who’s also a producer on the film with Gerwig and Baumbach. Barbie’s beau, Ken, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

America Ferrera delivers ‘Barbie’s’ big showstopper: ‘It just hit me as the truth’

LA Times

The following contains spoilers for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.” As a kid with a precocious mind for make-believe, America Ferrera never felt like a Barbie girl in a Barbie world. I was the little girl who didn’t see myself in the mainstream culture around me, and I know how important it is to feel seen.” Ferrera may not have grown up …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie film review: The excellent ‘Barbie’ is a surprisingly cerebral movie

Live Mint

Barbie film review: Crying occupies more space than you might expect in director Greta Gerwig's highly anticipated Barbie, a movie preoccupied with mortality and the general pain of being a human—specifically a woman—in an imperfect world. At the center of Gerwig's exploration: Margot Robbie's Barbie, a version of the famous Mattel Inc. doll come to life. Rollerblading in Santa Monica, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Column: I’m going to Barbie Land

LA Times

It’s my full-time job but wallowing in our broken politics can sometimes make for a dark world. Bring on Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” and with it, I hope, a more sympathetic view of the most famous doll on the planet. From 1959 — the year that my younger sister Patty and I each ripped the Christmas wrapping from a cardboard panel …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: Yes, Barbie is a feminist — just don’t ask her creators

LA Times

Almost 30 years ago, when I researched and wrote a history of the people and ideas that led to the creation of Barbie, I had no doubt she would be as talked about in 2023 as she was in 1959, when she first appeared. While I suspect every armchair gender theorist will be deconstructing Gerwig’s movie soon, Barbie’s resurgence of …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The real-life inspiration for Barbie

BBC

The Barbie movie gives a nod to the doll's creator Ruth Handler Getty Images In the new Barbie film, the doll's creator Ruth Handler plays a crucial role. She spoke to the BBC in 1997, describing what her inspiration was – and how some men didn't like the idea of a doll with a woman's shape. Ruth Handler and her …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie Movie faces potential ban in another country amidst controversial scene

Hindustan Times

Margot Robbie's upcoming Barbie movie has stirred international controversy, raising questions among audiences due to a specific scene that recognizes an Asian political conflict. The decision by Vietnamese authorities came after it was revealed that the film depicted a map featuring the "nine-dash line," a set of line segments asserting China's territorial claims in the South China Sea. The state-run …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Forget Barbie Land. Barbie's Best Day Ever was at Sydney's Pitt Street Mall

ABC

Very little is known about the plot of the upcoming Barbie movie, but that has not stopped a crowd of people from turning up to Westfield at Sydney's Pitt Street Mall in the hope of catching a glimpse of stars Margot Robbie, America Ferrera, Issa Rae and director Greta Gerwig. "Seeing Barbie doing all these different jobs — so, you …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Barbie unveils Anna May Wong doll for AAPI Heritage Month

Associated Press

Six months after she was immortalized with a U.S. quarter, Asian American Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong has received another accolade affirming her icon status — her own Barbie. Mattel announced Monday the release of an Anna May Wong doll for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. “As the first Asian American actor to lead a U.S. television show, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Barbie introduces first-ever doll with Down’s Syndrome

The Independent

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2 years, 3 months ago

Margot Robbie says leaked ‘Barbie’ photos were ‘the most humiliating moment of my life’

LA Times

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3 years, 5 months ago

Watch: Grandma Tears Up in Joy as She is Gifted Barbie Doll By Granddaughter

News 18

A relationship between a grandma and her granddaughter is nothing short of pure. This relationship is put in the limelight in this video on twitter, where a little girl gifts her granddaughter something she always wanted. “BEAUTIFUL SURPRISE Dona Carmoza is surprised with a Barbie doll from her granddaughter. She’d wanted a Barbie her whole life,” read the caption to …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Meet the Barbie doll staging feminist protests at museums and art galleries

Hindustan Times

Sarah Williamson, a senior lecturer at the School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield, UK, has been protesting against patriarchy quietly and uniquely since November 2018. She takes a Barbie doll to museums and art galleries, props her up in front of exhibits, and puts in her little hands a placard registering her protest — primarily at the …

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