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Don’t Hate the Barbie Girl, Hate the Barbie World
Don’t Hate the Barbie Girl, Hate the Barbie World
Margot Robbie as Barbie. (Alamy)
Suzy Weiss reviews the Warner Bros. blockbuster: I went to Greta Gerwig’s new movie and got pink pilled.
By Suzy Weiss
07.21.23 — Culture and Ideas
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Don’t Hate the Barbie Girl, Hate the Barbie World

I really wanted to hate Barbie. I certainly pre-hated it. I tried to avoid the marketing blitz around the movie, but since I have eyeballs, that wasn’t really an option. 

Simply existing in America over the past few months meant having the bronzed images of Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken staring you down everywhere you turned, not unlike…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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