Great piece! I wonder if you feel like Barbie glamorizes Gnosticism, or the fall, as an eye-opening moment, the way the the Matrix does? (The Wachowski brothers admit to gnostic inspiration for the Matrix.)
Weird Barbie as the serpent, leading Barbie to ‘knowledge’ of the real world, and her ultimately opting for an out-of-Eden experience? Wouldn’t Ruth (the Creator) want Barbie to return to Eden, and not the place the Serpent led her to?
holy shit
Great piece! I wonder if you feel like Barbie glamorizes Gnosticism, or the fall, as an eye-opening moment, the way the the Matrix does? (The Wachowski brothers admit to gnostic inspiration for the Matrix.)
Weird Barbie as the serpent, leading Barbie to ‘knowledge’ of the real world, and her ultimately opting for an out-of-Eden experience? Wouldn’t Ruth (the Creator) want Barbie to return to Eden, and not the place the Serpent led her to?
Read this with someone and it inspires her to write her own barbie commentary
This is brilliant I didn’t connect these dots the first time I watched it
thank you Sherry! means a lot coming from you :)
Now I'm going to have to see it.
it's quite fun and silly :P
Great piece Lola! I haven't seen it but now I feel I don't need to
oh noooooo it's actually a silly, fun movie -- pls watch it! maybe we could watch it when you're in sydney
another barbie day another barbie slay
this seems like a fine article but I have a firm policy against reading Barbie or Oppenheimer articles
looking forward to your next one 😀
it's really about Jesus and the Bible, less so about Barbie :P
Doesn't change the fact Barbie was packaged as feminist propaganda
thank you for acknowledging that i'm smart and shit and for not blocking me :D