Why I won’t take my 12-year-old daughter to see Barbie

Published July 28, 2023 12:00pm ET



My 12-year-old daughter asked me last weekend to take her to Barbie. I couldn’t do it — even though taking my children to movies and devouring buckets of buttered popcorn is one of my favorite things in life.

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