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Barbie

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The Path to Barbie

I thought for sure she was gonna be the new CEO of Mattel I just thought that she's gonna be successful and you know this is a we were told this is a nice liberal feminist movie. Instead it ends with her visiting a gynecologist so the point is Barbie in that that in that fantasy world is not a sex to being and so to come like what she wants to be more than anything is a sex being. It would be phantasmatic for her to exist in the real world without sexual organs but anyway, there's a certain absurdity to that as well.

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