Great article - we’ll done, humorous in parts - Chloe’s piece so fascinating as well. The whole Barbie doll thing has always been, to me, a bit confusing and a bit controversial. Over the years they added careers, diversity, etc. but when she first came out, or when I was very young, she was a blonde waspy thing with pointy tits. Don’t get me wrong, I had Barbies and a lot of clothes for them. There was a Midge too with dark hair because that was the response to diversity marketing in the early sixties and appeasing the little girls who did’t look like blonde Barbie — we’ll change the hair color! Then at some point Barbie got a wheelchair, wore glasses, got a degree, dif color skin, etc. it’s all so fascinating - but never knew she had Jewish roots - I mean she did’t look Jewish hahahah (yes I did just write that!) oh my - - just gotta say - I love you and your Drop.
The Barbie rage these days is of course because of the newly released film about Barbie and Ken. Note: this is not a film for very young ones. If Barbie has Jewish roots, via her creator, then so too does the J. Robert Oppenheimer film. Oppie, as he was called, had Jewish roots but did not practise or live his Jewishness. But so too was Albert Einstein, who suggested that such a weapon as the A bomb could be fashioned but who was not involved in the building of the bomb because of the FBI worry about his left-leaning sympathies.
We readily take what gifted people offer but often do not know or realize the background of those who have made such contributions available to us.
Great article - we’ll done, humorous in parts - Chloe’s piece so fascinating as well. The whole Barbie doll thing has always been, to me, a bit confusing and a bit controversial. Over the years they added careers, diversity, etc. but when she first came out, or when I was very young, she was a blonde waspy thing with pointy tits. Don’t get me wrong, I had Barbies and a lot of clothes for them. There was a Midge too with dark hair because that was the response to diversity marketing in the early sixties and appeasing the little girls who did’t look like blonde Barbie — we’ll change the hair color! Then at some point Barbie got a wheelchair, wore glasses, got a degree, dif color skin, etc. it’s all so fascinating - but never knew she had Jewish roots - I mean she did’t look Jewish hahahah (yes I did just write that!) oh my - - just gotta say - I love you and your Drop.
The Barbie rage these days is of course because of the newly released film about Barbie and Ken. Note: this is not a film for very young ones. If Barbie has Jewish roots, via her creator, then so too does the J. Robert Oppenheimer film. Oppie, as he was called, had Jewish roots but did not practise or live his Jewishness. But so too was Albert Einstein, who suggested that such a weapon as the A bomb could be fashioned but who was not involved in the building of the bomb because of the FBI worry about his left-leaning sympathies.
We readily take what gifted people offer but often do not know or realize the background of those who have made such contributions available to us.