We submit here Exhibit B: recorded evidence that Akiva thoroughly persuaded Rachel of the cultural and butch importance of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (although admittedly, it didn’t take much convincing because of Rachel’s crush on Greta; hi, Greta 😍).

Within, we:

* Rip “third wave” feminism’s empty pluralism to shreds

* Become truthers for Greta Gerwig’s female realpolitik (THAT LAST LINE and credits sequence, y’all!)

* Interpret Ken’s sexless mimicry of male privilege in the most controversial (and accurate) way possible

* Throw our lot in with Weird Barbie

‘Round about the 50:00 s, we lay out the foundation for our next episode, which deals with the 21st-century cultural construction “gender dysphoria” and its exhausting rituals; namely, invoking some constant, mindless shuffle between euphoria and misery for all female humans who dare set up camp in male-owned cultural territory.

We’ll deal in later episodes with the ahistorical reality-violation of people claiming this “gender” preoccupation, and its navel gazing, always existed. (The concept “nonbinary” was not consolidated in discourse until the 2010s, y’all… So hey, stop erasing sexily problematic women throughout history via some weird retroactive labeling scheme.)

Speaking of sexily problematic, where y’at, Greta…?

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