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Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Thoughts on Barbie and Womanhood

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Food for thought on America Ferrera’s speech at the climax of Barbie, informed by the great Jia Tolentino (a former guest who I found totally fascinating and original) and her book Trick Mirror. Let us never forget that we are a product of our culture. Please share, especially with the younger generation working to figure out who they are. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, this short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

0:10.9

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings if you can believe that,

0:15.0

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week,

0:18.4

a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went

0:25.0

about daily life.

0:26.7

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in

0:31.5

the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

0:34.8

So every Friday, we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

0:39.5

Think of it like an audio greeting card.

0:42.0

A thing to share with the people that you love around the country who you don't get to

0:46.0

see or talk to enough.

0:48.0

A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to on a more regular basis.

0:53.7

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order.

1:12.2

So this summer, my daughter Claire and I went to see Barbie in a packed theater and we both

1:20.0

were pretty agog at how great it was.

1:24.7

And it took me back to a book that I love that's written by a guest from, I don't know,

1:29.9

probably two years ago now on the podcast.

1:32.4

Her name is Gia Tolentino.

1:34.1

She writes for the New Yorker and she has this book of essays.

1:38.8

It's kind of like social commentary called Trick Mirror.

1:42.6

She is a great thinker about feminism.

1:46.2

I am sure that Greta Gerwig has read her inside and out with a highlighter and sticky

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