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Barbie (w/ Jessie Kahnweiler)

Movies vs. Capitalism

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Margot Robbie's Hotness

I think it's because that scene where the, the daughter, the Gen Z daughter dresses down Barbie only serves to address the historical criticism of Barbie. That was it. They needed one scene for one character to be like, Barbie, here's all the reasons you're fucking problematic. And once we say it once, we won't have to address it again. We've actually kind of cleaned up our reputation just by including this scene. And then she cries. And we're actually going to make that character kind of annoying. We're going to make her a gen-me, you know what I mean? No exactly. Did you go, were you guys not so freaked out that

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