People who think a movie about plastic dolls.

[meadowlander]

25. Barbie's not my thing

but lots of people are still passionate about things they loved as kids (Star Wars, Legos, Transformers, GI Joes, comic book characters, sports teams etc.). There's nothing wrong with that and I don't think being judgmental about other peoples' childhood passions accomplishes anything or, frankly, says much about your own level of maturity.

Also, Barbie may have been initially marketed as 19 but many of her "careers" like doctor, business executive, president, judge, astrophysicist, etc. skew older. Age has always been a bit fluid and besides the point in the Barbie-verse. A welcome relief to women who are told by society that their value starts to wane at 25 and disappears completely in their mid 40s.

I was never really into dolls but I can see how people like Barbie. Back in the 50s and 60s it was one of the first toys to start changing mentalities about women in the workplace. Most dolls before Barbie emphasized maternal caregiving for the child but Barbie is more about projecting ambition for girls and women once they grow up. It was also one of the first mainstream companies to have more diversity in its dolls.

Mattel has copped reasonable flak for promoting unrealistic standards of beauty and contributing to body images issues for girls. If you want to continue critiquing Barbie along those lines, fine. But "yuck, dolls!" and Margot Robbie is too old (at 33!) to play a beauty icon just smacks of the kind of misogyny that girls have been putting up with since the second they stepped out of the house and onto a playground with boys.