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Angela Cummings
Aug 01, 2023
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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…

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