Status Updates From Let's Call Her Barbie

This book reads like an outline for a tv series. I can see it on Netflix, but it’s an awkward read.

The Jack Ryan storyline is the most interesting one in this. The actually Barbie stuff kinda drags.

It’s hard reading historical fiction about real people. How much of this happened and how much is made up? I guess it’s like a movie based on a true story?

“Where’s his penis?” Ruth asks when they present the prototype. “He’s a boy,” says Charlotte. “His groin can’t look the same as Barbie’s.” The room full of men—grown men—is visibly uncomfortable now. Sure, they were happy to talk about Barbie’s tits till the cows came home, but one mention of Ken’s genitalia and they clam up, they even blush.

This made me laugh. 🤣

The 1950s is an era that never ceases to enrage me.

I don’t think you can call someone who routinely cheats on his wife a kind person.

Third person present POV is weird to read for me. I can’t tell if this is cinematic or if I hate it.

How do we feel about chapters headers but no chapter numbers?

NGL, I hate it.

This is like Mad Men but with toys.

I cried