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Why Theory

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The Existential Dread of the Barbie World

I think there's a difference between confronting structural or fundamental contradictions in your own subjectivity and having your consciousness raised about your actual structural situation I think those are two vastly different things. It's confrontation with intractable existential contradiction it's not like they don't pull out statistics of how undervalued and underfoot women are in the real world for why in the Barbie world they should act differently. If Helen Mirren came in if you have sympathy for Ken you need to confront your own internal misogyny that would have been really funny, he says.

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