{"id":1982957,"date":"2023-07-26T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feminism-gets-all-dolled-up-to-appeal-to-a-new-generation-in-barbie\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T14:30:20","slug":"feminism-gets-all-dolled-up-to-appeal-to-a-new-generation-in-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feminism-gets-all-dolled-up-to-appeal-to-a-new-generation-in-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Barbie&#8217; embraces feminism to attract a new generation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeminism-gets-all-dolled-up-to-appeal-to-a-new-generation-in-barbie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Ever-Evolving Feminist Movement: From Shelley to Barbie<\/h2>\n<p>The ideological roots of feminism are at least 200 years old, but somehow, as a movement, it has been able to rebrand itself anew every few generations to maintain relevance.<\/p>\n<p>The essentials to the feminist movement \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-be-like-the-hippies\/\" title=\"Don\u2019t Be Like the Hippies\">free love<\/a>, the occult, and smashing the patriarchy \u2013 were first brought together\u2064 as the \u201cwomen\u2019s revolution\u201d by \u200dpoet Percy Shelley. I discovered this\u200c when researching my forthcoming book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Woman-Smashing-Patriarchy-Destroyed\/dp\/1684514185\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=17NAROBYVRIMV&#038;keywords=carrie+gress&#038;qid=1690307577&#038;sprefix=carrie+gress%2Caps%2C73&#038;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us<\/a>\u201d (Regnery, August \u20622023). \u200bInspired by the mother-in-law he never met, Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley took her ideas and added them to his own version \u200cof what female freedom\u2062 should look like. While his \u200bwife was writing \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d Shelley created his own creature: the character of Cythna, who was the\u200b first independent woman, disconnected from\u200d her\u2062 parents, \u2062husband, and children. Curiously, the only relationship she had was with Satan. Cythna became a beacon for \u200dbudding feminists \u200bin the 1800s and beyond.<\/p>\n<h3>Elizabeth Cady Stanton \u200dand \u200cthe Triumph of Suffrage<\/h3>\n<p>Elizabeth Cady Stanton is perhaps the best-known 19th century feminist influenced by Shelley as she fought for women\u2019s \u2062suffrage. The movement took significant turns in the \u200d1900s, first with \u2063the triumph of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/melania-trump-supports-womens-suffrage-monument-bill\/\" title=\"Melania Trump supports women\u2019s suffrage monument bill\">suffrage movement<\/a>\u200d after the end \u200bof World War I. Thereafter, it was adrift without\u200b a cohesive goal, but eventually mingled with the communist party in the \u201930s, \u201940s, up till the second wave of the 1960s. The \u201960s and \u201970s ushered in a much more pronounced feminist movement that gave \u200cus the new\u2064 independent woman through a toxic blend of TV, the New Left, and the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feminism-gets-all-dolled-up-to-appeal-to-a-new-generation-in-barbie\/\" title=\"'Barbie' embraces feminism to attract a new generation.\">ubiquitous visuals featuring sexy<\/a> and stylish women,\u200d but all\u2063 the while,\u2062 the original model \u2064remained: a \u200cblend of free love, occult, and smashing the patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Later waves \u2064haven\u2019t quite had\u2062 the splash of the second wave and as those second wavers have aged, the movement has become a bit frayed at the edges. While some are in their 60s, \u200dlike Oprah Winfrey, Whoppi Goldberg, and Madonna, most of the mavens are now \u206370+ years of age, such as Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Joy Behar, Anna Wintour, \u200dand Dianne Feinstein. Its embrace of the LGBTQ has also brought in a cast of characters that give feminism the look of a party scene\u200b from \u201cTrolls.\u201d The aged and awkward have taken the sheen off the \u200bmovement, especially among the normals of \u2063Gen X and Gen Z.<\/p>\n<p>But now, \u201cBarbie\u201d comes to \u2063the rescue. Barbie is \u2063young, beautiful,\u2064 bubbly, and has the\u2064 benefit of\u2062 nostalgia for most American women. With \u2064this movie,\u200d Barbie takes on\u200b yet another new frontier \u200c\u2013 saving feminism from its tired old self.<\/p>\n<p>(Warning: spoiler alerts to come.) The \u200bfilm starts with Barbie living her perfect life every day when suddenly she is plagued\u2062 by \u2062thoughts of death,\u200b her feet flatten, and cellulite shows up. To find \u200cher way out of this\u2064 terrible plight, she must\u2064 visit\u200b Weird \u2062Barbie, an old and odd sage, who kinda reminds us\u2064 of some current feminists\u200b we \u2064know. Weird Barbie, like the star Barbie, \u2064also used to be Stereotypical Barbie, instead of\u2063 one of the\u200c many offshoots, \u200clike\u2062 President Barbie and \u2062Mermaid Barbie. Weird Barbie lost her dazzle\u200d through \u2062mistreatment and was left\u2063 with a bad haircut, graffiti make-up, and messed up \u200cclothes. The movie unfolds as Barbie takes Weird Barbie\u2019s advice to get back to her previously perfect self. Barbie\u2019s adventure starts as she leaves\u200c in her pink car with \u201cCloser\u2062 to Fine\u201d playing\u200c by \u200dthe Indigo \u2064Girls, the \u201980s and \u201990s Lesbian folk duo, a nostalgic nod to all Gen Xers.<\/p>\n<p>Feminism dogma doesn\u2019t take long \u200cto surface. In word\u2064 and deed, there are plenty of reminders that the patriarchy always needs smashing.\u200d The film features men who are buffoons,\u200c clueless, vulgarians, narcissists, and arrogant. Not\u200c one is really necessary for daily life. They are the bicycle a fish needs, to quote\u2062 Gloria Steinem, \u201cWomen need men like a fish needs a bicycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarbie\u201d also reminds us, heavy-handedly, that women\u2019s relationships and leadership\u2064 are indispensable for a perfectly peaceful world. If only women could truly subdue men, then all things would be pacific\u2062 and calm.<\/p>\n<p>Once feminism virtues are served, it \u200bis time to remind women just how hard it is to be women.<\/p>\n<p>The two main human females in the film are\u2063 a mother and daughter, \u2063Gloria, and, her tween daughter, Sasha, who are struggling to understand\u2064 each other. The adventure of saving Barbie sets the two on a restorative\u200d quest.\u2064 But while it is happening, Gloria\u200b rouses Barbie who, almost comatose with despair, thought she may never \u200cbe\u2062 perfect Barbie again. Gloria issues an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-southwest-pilots-epic-hot-mic-rant-about-san-fran-libs\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Southwest Pilot\u2019s Epic Hot-Mic Rant About San Fran Libs\">epic rant<\/a> (edited here to half its length) \u2062about\u2064 womanhood in a way that surprises even herself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say\u2062 you want to be thin. You have \u200cto\u2064 say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to\u200b have money, but you can\u2019t ask for money because\u200c that\u2019s \u200bcrass. You have to be a boss, but you can\u2019t be mean. You have to lead, but you can\u2019t squash \u200bother people\u2019s ideas\u2026 You have to never get old, never be rude,\u2064 never \u2063show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never \u200dfail, never show fear, never get \u2063out of line. It\u2019s too hard! It\u2019s too contradictory\u2063 and nobody gives you a medal\u2062 or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not\u200b only are you doing everything wrong, but\u200d also everything \u200cis your fault.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This rant magically wakes up not\u2063 just Barbie, but any Barbie who \u200bhas fallen under \u2062the spell of the\u200d patriarchy. It is \u2062also meant to wake up those of\u200b us \u200cin the pews, er, the theatre seats. Life \u2063as a woman is hard and feminism is here to help us. Once again, if we can just tune out all \u200cthe men, things get easier quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the\u2063 most disturbing, but \u200diconic scene of the film is the opening, creating a new myth to explain Barbie\u2019s power. Before her arrival, little girls dressed\u2064 in beige and \u200bbeleaguered, \u2062play \u2062with baby dolls. Oh, the drudgery! Not to worry, Barbie\u2019s type\u2064 of feminism allowed these little girls, just like their \u200dmothers, to smash in the skulls of their babies and move on to much\u200b more exciting and interesting careers away from children. Later in the film, Midge, the name for Pregnant Barbie, \u200bgets a few cameos but we are quickly\u2062 reminded that Pregnant Barbie was discontinued. No one wants \u200dPregnant Barbie.<\/p>\n<p>Some have \u2063argued that Barbie overstates the feminist case so much that truly no one could believe it, undermining its own message. Having researched feminism now \u2062for several years, this kind of hyperbole is not unique. Gloria Steinem, who might be the muse behind Kamala Harris\u2019s wisdom,\u200c has said \u2064things like: \u201cThe future \u200bdepends entirely on what each\u2062 of us does\u2062 every day; a movement\u200c is only people moving,\u201d \u200d\u201cLike art, revolutions\u2063 come from combining\u2062 what exists into\u200d what has never existed before,\u201d or this gem, \u201cUntil the masculine role \u2064is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the level \u200cof ridiculousness is not new, it is\u200b just new to a general audience. I\u2019ll admit it looks a lot better in pink, but hopefully, someday, a generation of women will finally wise up and realize \u2063that all this is still just the vision \u200bof a creepy and decadent \u2063English poet, and like Frankenstein\u2019s creature\u2063 created by his wife Mary\u200d Shelley,\u2064 isn\u2019t really \u200dreal. It is, after all, just \u200da Barbie \u2064World.<\/p>\n<p><em>Carrie Gress Ph.D. (philosophy) is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the \u200bfounder and co-editor \u200bof the online women\u2019s magazine Theology of Home. \u2063She <\/em><em>is the author \u200dof <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Woman-Smashing-Patriarchy-Destroyed\/dp\/1684514185\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=17NAROBYVRIMV&#038;keywords=carrie+gress&#038;qid=1690307577&#038;sprefix=carrie+gress%2Caps%2C73&#038;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The End\u2063 of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us<\/em><\/a>  \u200b(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regnery Publishing<\/a>, August \u20642023), \u200dnow available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Woman-Smashing-Patriarchy-Destroyed\/dp\/1684514185\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=17NAROBYVRIMV&#038;keywords=carrie+gress&#038;qid=1690307577&#038;sprefix=carrie+gress%2Caps%2C73&#038;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views\u200c expressed in this\u200b piece are those of the\u200b author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO \u200dGET\u2062 THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feminist movement has managed to stay relevant by rebranding itself every few generations, despite its ideological roots being over 200 years old. 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