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'...how is the author either resisting (you) know patriarchal narratives or in some way complicit with them and strengthening them and promulgating them.'
The Barbie movie so completely portrays the vision of 'girl boss' feminism that at points I didn't know whether they were trying to parody fashionable feminism didn't realise just how much of a cliché it was.
Australia has come a long way since the 1970s when football was often described as wogball, Melbournians described the rugby codes as open air wrestling, and the northern states (NSW and Queensland) viewed Australian Rules as aerial ping pong.
Mattel's Barbie has become, courtesy of Greta Gerwig, a talking point so silly it deserves to be treated trivially. But money, advertising, and Mattel, won't allow that.
The people that form the community are the most important aspect of the endeavour and the foresight (both in philosophical and practical matters) of those that found it.
There is a lot to be said for the two-income trap combined with the price of housing. But the non-material factors actually have the greater effect on the number of children people are having.
