Source: EconLog
by Kevin Corcoran
“Gloria, portrayed by the actress America Fererra, gives an impassioned speech to Barbie about how it’s ‘literally impossible to be a woman.’ What makes it impossible, she explains, is that women are held to a wide range of expectations that are irreconcilable, so no matter what they do it’s always wrong. In an article talking about how people responded to this speech, one viewer says she loved it because it revealed ‘how self-contradictory society’s expectations of women are,’ and this was a common reaction. But I want to suggest there is something misguided here.” (01/28/25)
https://www.econlib.org/on-barbie-and-impossible-expectations/