On the one hand I agree with you but on the other, seven million subscribers.

It makes you wonder if Graham has ever been to South Carolina. Most of it is filled with toothless crackheads with no education living in the most disgusting conditions I have ever seen, and I’ve been to 3rd world countries. (And they vote R.)

Imaginative play toys are better for cognitive development especially for young children (these days most 10 year olds wouldn’t be caught dead with Barbies). Things with narratives are also good but the power of being encouraged to pretend is pretty important for developing creativity. Blocks are also good for this.

I think the criticism is usually from women who feel like The Skimm exists because they reckoned millennial women needed current events dumbed down for them to understand anything or pay any attention at all.

Toys like Barbie encourage imaginative play- the kid makes the stories and narratives up themselves. With video games, they are just playing in someone else’s world. The chance for creativity and self directed play isn’t there. They are just playing in someone else’s rigidly conceived environment, following set…

See, when I read about people’s experience with Barbies like that, I can absolutely get behind playing with Barbies. That's amazing! But I had a vastly different experience. The only thing I remember playing with my Barbies was getting them all dressed up for the ball to try to attract the attention of my only Ken. I…

So, is the critique of these women and TheSkimm focused on the fact that they’re basic bitches, or that the language they use to deliver the news is too flip/casual? I’m struggling with finding issue with encouraging women to be up to speed on current affairs, but I get that people like to point & laugh at girls like…

I did the same. I thought a nice bit of daily snippets would be good. It annoyed the hell out of me. Now I listen to the 15 minute NPR morning podcast while I fix my hair and do make-up and I like that a lot. 

My question is who’s funding this? They’re coming up with ways to monetize, but someone with deep pockets is putting on this show.

Oh, his hysterical and angry screeching in support of Brett Kavanaugh didn’t immediately make you think, “this is a guy who really supports and cares about women”?

I don’t know, a Dr. Barbie just handing out highly addictive pills seems pretty on point for a fair number of doctors these days. 

Yeah, Ariel does give up her entire family and mer-life at the end of that movie to marry Prince Eric, but her dad did break literally everything in her room in a fit of Fantastic Racism, so I’m okay with it.

Why was he even invited to speak in the first place? I don’t understand why anyone would want him there. Also, can Nepotism Barbie please knock it off  with the “I’m a serious grown up” antics? No matter how many summits she speaks at or hosts, she’s still useless and feckless. 

A) Why is a man speaking at this event in the first place? Aren’t there already enough venues for women to listen to men?
B) Why in the holy f*ck is he even bringing up terrorism, much less in the lens of “if we make you a better buffer, we make ourselves safer”?!?

At one point, Graham had some amount of promise as…

She was that shape to better fit the bulk of old fabrics and hemming (1/6th scale clothes get 1/1 thick fast), as soon as textiles evolved so did Barbie’s shape (1966 new body, 1999 new body, 2016 new curvy, normal, petite, tall)

I just can’t get my rage boner up for Barbie when there are so many Disney princesses to hate. Like, do you even KNOW the theme of Little Mermaid? It’s “give away your VOICE, the very essence of what makes you you, so some boy will like you!” That’s fucked! Barbie is just thin with boobs and a lot of outfits. Someone…

While I get the critique of Barbie’s proportions, those dolls were still some of my most loved toys as a kid (right up there with my American Girl doll and Littlest Pet Shop). My sister and I had a lot of Barbie stuff and we would create whole towns in my parent’s basement. The play was incredibly imaginative (though…

Unless you know how to make duct tape skanky dresses and jumpers like me!

No, you'd have to have like, little boxes for each size. Otherwise, how would you ever know?!?!?! I was a weird OCD little kid, too.

Yeah, this seems like a way to sell an awful lot more outfits to well meaning parents.