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Why Theory

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The Role of Barbies in the Making of Barbie Land

"I think one of the things that riles certain male spectators is he brings patriarchy back and turns barbie land into a land controlled by men," she says. "The signifier of masculinity is itself a redundant all it can do is just signify itself." The film explores this in such a way that would all get us this pure signification of itself with no connection to anything other than itself but I like the idea that the fantasy can be infected but both can be infected either way so the social reality can be infected by the fantasy and theantasy can be infected  by the social reality.

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