My mind was racing with questions like, Why is there a transfemme Barbie but no transmasc Ken? Did I just pay $17.50 to witness the spectacle of capital subsuming dissent? Have the filmmakers deliberately cast “Weird Barbie” with an actress who dated Bari Weiss and played “Hallelujah” on the piano while dressed as Hillary Clinton after the 2016 election in order to politically center “weirdness”? Why is there no mention of doll materials designer Jack Ryan and his past employment engineering missiles for Raytheon?

In the expensive and youthful East Village, Ahna was walking to go pick up her dry cleaning. She was on the phone with her mother talking about a Google document where their entire extended family was entering their Christmas lists so that the rest of the family could buy them the gifts they wanted.