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Linguistic reason Barbie's iconic speech became a cultural moment, and what Aristotle has to do with it

Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something that felt almost too real for a film about a plastic doll.

Linguistic reason Barbie's iconic speech became a cultural moment, and what Aristotle has to do with it
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Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something that felt almost too real for a film about a plastic doll.

Originally published at Phys.org

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