#and I get that gerwig was pulling Barbie out of the box/ her context and just playing with her the way weird little girls do
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The Barbie movie’s got me digging back into Roland Barthes
#something about the sign and the signifier and removing#and how an image divorced from its original context and placed in a new one can have completely different meanings#a French flag in France has a totally different meaning and narrative than a French flag flying in Algeria#was I think the example he used#and I get that gerwig was pulling Barbie out of the box/ her context and just playing with her the way weird little girls do#to work out their understandings of the real world and building one they prefer#but CAN you divorce Barbie from a corporate capitalist context??#like I get why you don’t want to include issues of class in a Barbie movie#but feminist statements about patriarchy and it’s creation and its maintenance CANT exclude class#I think it was de Beauvoir who pointed out how patriarchy and private property are entertained#and I know steinhem wrote about how her middle class existence was sold to her as an American ideal but it made her and all her college#friends completely miserable#like they’d won the class lottery#but even still the system was actively oppressing them#but these aren’t really coherent thoughts#I did enjoy the depressed Barbie commercial so much I howled with laughter
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