PARIS — Barbie’s performative womanliness has an equivalent, and it’s not Ken, who’s famously neutered by design. It’s Donald Trump and the rest of the
bros virtue-signaling “manliness” like it’s a lost art. Barbie dolls were once seen as the exaggerated feminine ideal, until they started dressing as doctors, lawyers, engineers and astronauts. Then they became feminists. These days, real life mirrors Barbie World. You either live in a pre-fab identity box, or you’re accused of dodging one. You might even think that you’re in the right box — until someone moves the walls again.
Vice President JD Vance warned earlier this year that the conventional wisdom was trying to turn everyone into “androgynous idiots” and needed more boxes,
defined by guys like him, presumably. “I think that our cu