REVIEW: Barbie movie focuses on making relationships optional
Dressed as "Boss/Reporter #Barbie ," I am reporting from Barbieland where life is always good. Like millions of girls raised in the seventies I wanted to be a Barbie girl living in a Barbie world. For my generation, Barbie reflected th changes in the women's liberation movement. The movie about the iconic pro-woman doll opens with a narrator explaining, "Since the beginning of time...there have always been dolls. But the dolls were always baby dolls. Barbie changed everything. She might have started out as a lady in a bathing suit. She is so much more..." 'Tis true... Barbie is an icon who changed how American girls and women see themselves. Imaginative girls who played with the toy wete transported out of the home to where ever they wanted to go in a range of roles. Gradually, over a 60 year period she went from her Malibu Beach doll Mansion to outer space. The evolution of Barbie mirrored women's progress in America in some instances and...