Unlike actual American women whose bodies conservatives have managed to impose controls on, Barbie remains beyond their grasp. And that’s really what kills them, writes MarisaKabas.
about how much the role means to her, that the usual suspects crawled out of their bigot bunkers to crank the faux-outrage machine.
“Me and my girlfriends — okay, yeah, me and my other transgender girlfriends — we started calling ourselves ‘the dolls’ a couple of years ago,” Nef wrote in her Instagram post, along with a photo of herself dressed as her Barbie character. “Maybe it’s a bid to ratify our femininity, to smile and sneer at the standards we’re held to as women. … ‘Doll’ is fraught, glamorous; she is, and she isn’t. We call ourselves ‘the dolls’ in the face of everything we know we are, never will be, hope to be.
Kreiz’s comments last year came in the weeks following the introduction of a Barbie in the likeness of trailblazing transgender actor and activist Laverne Cox.the doll’s importance in her journey to self-acceptance. “I begged my mother for a Barbie doll and she said no because I was assigned male at birth,” Cox said. “And when I was in my 30s, I was in therapy and telling my therapist that I was denied the opportunity to play with Barbie dolls.
The diverse casting of the new film underscores what every Barbie girl has always known to be true: that she was whoever you needed her to be at any given time. She tried on different jobs for size, never put limits on her potential and always had a great time trying new things.
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