The spectacular femininity of bimbos and 'Barbie'
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The Toxic Femininity of Barbie
There's a fear that everyone will try and look as unrealistic as Barbie, she says. "The hyper femininity of Barbie is actually in her unnaturalness points out something about the unnaturalness of gender generally" The cult of natural beauty promotes this kind of bio-essentialism with bad beauty associated with sex workers or lower class working-class women,. That's what's rejected.
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