![]() ![]() If the new Barbie satirizes the iconic doll discovering mortality and freedom, the chuckles are strictly for the adults in the room the kids are Okay-Boomer -ing and slipping chunky headphones on. Their parents, on the other hand, might giggle at the Freidan gags. Young women in 2023 are not modeling their identity on the Brothers Grimm or Uncle Walt’s movies they grow up today knowing that gender roles and orientation are, at best, sketchy suggestions. “We’re here to follow them.” Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique lands in Cinderella’s hands and starts a revolution among the royal maidens.Įven that flipped script is a tame move. “We’re not here to make fairy tales,” the Narrator huffs. A group of classic fairytale princesses (Snow White, Rapunzel, et al.) rebel against their oppressive Narrator and faithless Prince, ultimately busting out of their happy-ever-after corsets. What’s new (not really) is the middle finger to heteropatriarchy. ![]() Repackaging hit tunes with pretty girls is as old as Flo Ziegfeld and his Follies. ![]() Once Upon A One More Time ( OUAOMT ?!?) is hardly the beginning of the end. ![]()
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