Hey feminists, instead of spending so much time Barbie bashing, why don’t you challenge the classic childhood game, Old Maid?
In a world full of pairs, you are a loser if are alone, aging and a woman. What kind of message is that? And, is the negative image of the old maid in society so normalized and accepted that it took me more than three and half decades to realize the pejorative moral of the game?
My children will not be playing Old Maid again until I can go to the store and buy the “Stinky Middle-Aged Man Living in his Mom’s Basement” equivalent.
