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...DOLLHOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF Last week Mattel Inc., maker of Barbie, acquired Pleasant Co., which makes the wholesome, historic-minded American Girl dolls. Will the dolls be compatible housemates? Let's check a representative of each line...
...wags have coined a phrase for this: Duh Feminism. But there's nothing obvious about the movement's achievements. It's true that we now have a woman crafting America's foreign policy (Madeleine Albright), that a woman is deciding which Barbie dolls to produce (Jill Barad, CEO of Mattel) and that a woman (Catharine MacKinnon) pioneered the field of sexual-harassment law (which is turning into real dollars for real women, as Mitsubishi Motors evidenced two weeks ago with its record $34 million payment to women on the assembly line). It's also true that women are joining together...
Just when feminists and parents were pulling out their hair because the Mattel Barbie was reinforcing dumb-girl stereotypes right and left, moaning "math is hard," Brooks and Dunn were praising their "Little Country Girl," who got dirty looks in high school because "she got an A in math and never cracked a book...
...Mattel will reward the winning college with a comedy show featuring Comic Relief performers...
...Mattel executives have not said who will perform, but Catherine D. Rucker '99, the event coordinator, said she has been promised that "they will make it worth our while...