I grew up in a football household. My brother played all the way through college and football was on in the house every weekend. I couldn't not like football. I also grew up a huge Barbie lover, obviously. Those two pastimes rarely interact. Although I do remember playing with Barbies as a little girl while the TV was on and the rest of my family was happily screaming at the teams.     When I was in College, Mattel got the brilliant idea to cross-promote by creating licensed Barbies for college sports teams. I happened to go to a University that did have a D1 football team, but was MUCH to small to garner its own Barbie doll. Instead, I ended up with CU Barbie. I do remember being at the store and whoever had packed the box looked at the region and included a handful of other regional dolls. That individual was clearly not an American football fan. The University of Nebraska Huskers dolls sat forlornly on the shelf and probably ended up on a clearance bin long after the season.

 I took my mom to see that Barbie movie last night. After all, she was my co-conspirator during the Barbie collecting days. And we both walked away completely unsure about how we felt:  The Will Ferrell humor felt misplaced.  The patriarchy plot was ....I don't know, just not what I expected.  The cameos were great but so much more could have been done with them. The tongue-in-cheek awareness of capitalism was necessary but trying too hard The gender binary of the whole thing was so overt That being said, we were both glad we saw it.  I did love America Ferrara's rant in the middle and will happily quote it for the next two dozen years.  Anything that has Indigo Girls music is better for its inclusion.  Michael Cera and Kate McKinnon were hands down the best characters and the best parts of the movie Rhea Perlman was perfectly cast in her role I don't want to rant about how it wasn't the movie I wanted them to make, because I don't have that power. But at the end of