Jordaan Mason - An Academics Lament On Barbie lyrics

Like a flip flop feminists
Relationship with Barbie
Hardly the unsung perfectionist
Perhaps white supremacist
Or Is this over-analysis of plastic?
A fanatic franticly forge five thousand words
On the relevance and
Development of marketing to girls
And the harshness of the world
Against all odds she worked 130 jobs
But still thrilled mostly by
The presence of heartthrobs
Unaffected by patriarchy or recessions
But soon it must be questioned
Does the doll face only rеpresent
What first is projectеd
Grammar and spellcheck
Half these points make no sense
The deadlines days away and their
Conclusions a conflicted mess
So how did molded plastic


Become so problematic
Where negi readings are dramatic
But posis over-romantic
And maybe Barbie would rather be
A gnarly dirty harpy
Tattoos drawn on with sharpie
Kissing girls at a party
A figure once seen as pristine
While preserved in a box
Most Barbies end up naked and limbless
With their hair shaved off
Perhaps it should be mentioned that
Barbie would be sectioned
Having weigh-ins everyday for what
Others call perfection
You can say she's just a doll so
What does their size really mean
60s slumber party still read
Books saying don't eat
Perhaps an ever-changing icon
Reflecting female progress
Perhaps a shallow feminism focused
On individual success
And now we are over the word count
Got to edit down what's written
With no conclusion found out
Tangled and confused and now
Scared of being misread
Wishing I had done GI Joe
Male violence and conscription instead
Exhausting approaches Barbie's subtext
Seems absent a one dimensional character
With endless multifacets
Time is nearly up they must be pragmatic
Conclusion: the most human thing about Barbie
Is the fact she is problematic

After quick and heavy editing
Self-flagellation for a cop-out ending
In time, I hand their essay in
I forgot my referencing
I have failed my degree
$27, 000 down the drain
Ask yourself, "Was it worth it?
What did you learn about Barbie?"