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OpinioNet Contributed Commentary - Steven Plaut
February 11, 2002
The Barbie Liberation Front
Now, suddenly Arab feminists everywhere have a new role model and are
coming out openly in the demand that all Arab women endeavor to follow in
her footsteps. That role model is of course the Palestinian gynonazi
suicide bomber who blew up central Jerusalem a couple of weeks back. At
long last, Arab feminists have someone who can liberate them from the
patriarchy and from gender oppression!
And curiously, Israel’s own codpiece-donned feminizts have THEIR own
new cause as well. These mustachioed feminizts are without exception
leftettes, and so have never quite gotten around to protesting the murders
of Israeli women by the PLO and other friends of Shimon Peres. Indeed,
they regularly take their place in the various communist-front
organizations and rallies for the Palestinian right to perpetrate
genocide.
But now the dear gals are all PMSed out about an outrage. You see, it
seems that many Israeli pre-schools and kindergartens allow the youngsters
to play with Barbie dolls. Really. Some feminizts were on the radio
this week explaining why this human rights atrocity must end at once.
You see, the Barbie dolls teach young girls that it is nice to be slim and
attractive and THAT plays into the paws of male chauvinist pigs and serves
the oppressive patriarchy. The feminizts would prefer dolls that
encourage young girls to seek to make their appearances progressive, like
those of Andrea Dworkin or Yael Dayan!! In addition, Barbie has a nasty
habit of playing traditionalist female roles in between her stints as a
pilot and fireperson. And that is unacceptable for any true feminizt.
You can e-mail Steven at splaut@econ.haifa.ac.il.
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