Should grown-ups agonize over Barbie?

For the next couple weeks we’ll be assaulated with analysis of the Barbie movie. Is it too woke? Are the people who say it’s woke haters of one kind or another?

I expected it to be woke garbage, and I suspect that’s the reality. But I don’t particularly care — except for a slight concern than any socially significant media event might tend to push things in the wrong direction.

My overall reaction is that I’m tired of adults agonizing over children’s stories and toys. Stop trying to analyze Barbie. It’s just a toy for girls.

But as soon as I say that, I realize how wrong-headed that is. Children’s stories and toys are precisely where we fight for the next generation. Kids who grow up assuming that girls should be Barbie and boys should be G.I. Joe will make a very different society than kids who grow up believing girls and boys can just swap roles and clothes and private parts.

Prediction: there will be a new version of Mr. Potato Head where the kid can decide if it’s Mr. or Mrs. by swapping out some plastic parts.

As much as I hate the thought of it, yes, people probably should agonize over Barbie.

This is how you do it

Why did it take so long for somebody to do this?

Mayor tells school board to resign or face charges.

As you would expect, the swamp creatures pushed back.

An Ohio mayor’s threats to criminally charge school district employees was ‘reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’, prosecutor finds

Still, this is exactly what needs to happen. And if it’s in his power, he should fire the wimpy prosecutors. Keep up the pressure!

Of course I say this as someone who actually wants the government-run schools to collapse. But as long as they exist (as the blight on humanity that they are), we need to keep trying to impose some level of sanity and stop the monsters who are trying to indoctrinate children.