This week we conservatives are worried about moms taking their daughters to see the fairy tale of Barbie as a wokey feminist. Why, they’ll learn to hate the patriarchy for the rest of their lives! Maybe. But wasn’t the original Barbie doll a teenage fairy tale of clothes and makeup and boys, instead of baby dolls as a preparation for motherhood? And if they like Woke Barbie there’s always Disney’s Woke Snow White next spring.
Let’s get one thing out of the way, first. Retelling myths and fairy tales to bring them up to date is nothing new. Scholars agree that the Catholic saints were created in an effort to make Christianity more relatable to the illiterate peasants and farmers and slaves of Christendom.
And scholars were mad as hell when Wagner destroyed the Nordic myths in his Ring cycle. The experts reckoned that Wagner had completely lost the plot, as […]
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