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Barbie's Beauty Standards

Even plastic, hyper-processed, sterile "humans" are haunted by duality

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Jul 14, 2023
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Barbie the movie - skating with glow-in-the-dark rollerblades is back ...

The Barbie movie, which releases on July 21, isn’t a kids’ film. It’s overtly aimed at over-13s and tackles adult themes: corporate greed, body image, fear of mortality. According to director Greta Gerwig, it’s also a feminist story. Barbie is expelled from Barbie World after finding she’s falling short of that world’s artificial beauty standards, firs…

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