The best revenge is living well. The very, very best revenge is becoming an international sensation whose name is synonymous with success and then being made into a Barbie. Oprah Winfrey had a very, very difficult childhood. And now she is getting the best kind of revenge. You wouldn’t know it from the way Oprah…
Are you the kind of person who is kept up at night thinking, “Mattel’s Ken doll has such an unrealistic body! No one has that much time for the gym!”? Have you ever dared to hope that Mattel might one day acknowledge that men come in a variety of shapes and sizes? Are you the…
(JTA) — Amy Schumer wasn’t having it after it was reported that she would play Barbie in an upcoming movie — and social media users slammed the Jewish comedian for her weight. Schumer shared a photo of herself in a bathing suit on Instagram and a message about self-acceptance and not letting haters get to…
Not long after news circulated that Amy Schumer was in talks to play the title role of Barbie in an upcoming live-action film, bored trolls took to the internet to do what they do best. Twitter users giddily slammed Schumer, complaining she is too overweight, too loud and too “heinous to men” to play Barbie….
What does the word “mensch” really mean? Of course, everyone knows its connotations of decency, kindness and humility; these are not gendered qualities. Yet in common usage, the word is often applied more to men than to women: There’s the children’s toy, a male doll named “Moshe” wearing a prayer shawl, the Mensch on a…
Barbie just got a makeover. In , Mattel announced that the doll – once frozen in time like a carbonite Marilyn Monroe only skinnier – will now come in different sizes and skin tones. Some are saying the change comes too late but I for one am happy. I tried my best to raise a…
The announcement this week that Mattel is launching a new line of Barbie dolls with “realistic” bodies was greeted with cheers in the feminist community. It was a welcome response to a decades-long struggle against the ubiquitous commercial messages that an ideal woman should have a ridiculous body size and shape – unattainably thin limbs,…
An Australian Jewish group has criticized author Camille Paglia for referring to Taylor Swift as an “obnoxious Nazi Barbie.” The chairman of the Australian B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission called Paglia’s comments, which she published in an article for the Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, “obscene.” “While Paglia is entitled to her views about Taylor Swift’s music…
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