Barbie, Can We Ever Forgive You?

The last week’s deluge of opinions on whether Barbie¹ — the movie, the entity — is genius or mere marketing smut curiously coincided with the sad news of Sinead O’Connor’s death. And I found myself wondering: what are we really talking about when we consider whether Barbie is any good for us or not? Are we talking about the doll, the children’s toy ind…