I was surprised that a film as conservative and smug as Barbie was branded as transgressive and even a “bombshell against patriarchy,” and a friend who works with youth enlightened me: We’re going backwards. He knows it, he deals daily with confirming roles that we thought were outdated. This explains why some are touched by America Ferrera’s speech, while at this point I had to blush when I heard that women don’t have to be perfect. we’re done There’s more feminism in every Mafalda ’70s cartoon than in Barbie’s Two Hours, bolder messages in Adam’s Rib, who’s eighty years old, or in Tootsie, and if I have to choose an address, I prefer me Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomatoes, possessed by the spirit of Towanda.
She didn’t want to waste a column talking about Mattel’s vacuous advertorial, much less criticizing its tenuous message, because times are better than rowing for it, but Cristina Pedroche woke up feeling great and the blissful pink sorority cape of the summer transformed themselves in greenish bile. The harsh court that gives the title of feminism today rewards a woman for flaunting her imperfections, but not for boasting about her freshness. And much less to be able to pay for it with his money. Modesty is elevated to a cardinal virtue. They accuse her of being privileged because it’s now an insult and they scold her for getting help maintaining her beauty, unlike Brad Pitt, whose splendor at 59 is even being celebrated on the news , is due to the fact that he ate dinner before eight and drank plenty of water and walk lightly like Rajoy. “You have to be beautiful, but not so beautiful that you threaten other women,” Ferrera laments, and it turns out her message isn’t as obvious as she thought.
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