Barbie Pedroche

I was surprised that a film as conservative and self-indulgent as Barbie was branded as transgressive and even as a “bomb against the patriarchy” and a friend who works with adolescents enlightened me: we are regressing. He knows it, he deals daily with the reaffirmation of roles that we thought were outdated. That explains why there are those who are moved by America Ferrera’s speech while it made me blush to hear at this point that women don’t have to be perfect. we finished There is more feminism in any 70s cartoon by Mafalda than in the two hours of Barbie, more daring messages in Adam’s Rib, which is eighty years old, or in Tootsie, and if I have to choose a harangue I prefer Kathy Bates in Fried Green Tomatoes possessed by the spirit of Towanda.

She wasn’t going to waste a column talking about Mattel’s insubstantial advertorial, let alone criticizing its puny message, as times are better than rowing in favor, but Cristina Pedroche woke up feeling great and the beatific pink sorority cloak of summer turned into greenish bile. The strict court that awards the title of feminism today rewards a woman for showing off her imperfections, but not for her to boast of her freshness. Let alone being able to pay her with her money. Modesty elevated to cardinal virtue. They accuse her of being privileged, because now it is an insult, and they scold her for having help to maintain her beauty, unlike Brad Pitt, whose splendor at 59, celebrated even on the news, is due to having dinner before eight, drink a lot of water and walk lightly like Rajoy. “You have to be beautiful, but not so beautiful that you threaten other women,” Ferrera laments, and it turns out that her message is not as obvious as she thought.

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