CommentaryBarbie’s hyperbolic blond femininity came to represent everything that was wrong with patriarchal beauty standards, but now she is looking to reinvent herself. As a mama trying to raise a daughter free from the gendered stereotypes of my own childhood, I steered her clear of Barbie dolls. I felt compelled to nudge my now 11-year-old away from the Mattel mainstay for the same reasons I tried to avoid the shallow frivolity of all those Disney princesses waiting around to be rescued. True, I’d enjoyed plenty of afternoons with these dolls of anatomically impossible proportions myself as a kid growing up in the 1980s – jamming those long spindly limbs into impossibly tiny outfits, scissoring them on mattresses fashioned from my mother’s maxi pads, staging epic domestic dramas. But by the time I was a teenager in the 1990s, I’d discovered feminism. I’d later grow up to...
- 7/19/2023
- by Balakrishna
- The News Minute
J.K. Rowling has completed her transformation into official poster child of TERFs, or “trans-exclusionary radical feminists.” The term has become a catch-all phrase for a narrow-minded concept of gender, touted by certain old-school feminists, such as Germaine Greer and now Rowling, that would rather preach “inherent biological differences in the sexes” than recognize someone’s humanity. The “Harry Potter” author has made her transphobic views known for years both in tweets and interviews, and recently penned a 4,000-word essay to her personal website expanding on her position. She published the essay following Daniel Radcliffe’s statement, posted to The Trevor Project website, which declared very plainly that “trans women are women” and denounced the author’s views.
Though they are no doubt exhausted and pained by yet another transphobic attack on their right to exist, prominent trans talent in Hollywood spoke out against Rowling’s statements. The most powerful of which may be Jen Richards,...
Though they are no doubt exhausted and pained by yet another transphobic attack on their right to exist, prominent trans talent in Hollywood spoke out against Rowling’s statements. The most powerful of which may be Jen Richards,...
- 6/11/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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