All the women in my life dressed up as outrageous Barbie caricatures and got together to drink pink drinks and see it in the theater. High camp; self-consciously girl-bonding-silly. Fair enough. We raised two of them on The Spice Girls, so what can one expect? Day-to-day, they don't live this way.

As such, I was willing to entertain the possibility that the film was a tongue-in-cheek, deliberate self-parody. (I have not seen it.) After reading your post though, it sounds like the punch line is that it's deadly serious. They should be ROTFL; instead, they may be waiting for real-life president Barbie.

I therefore find it interesting, in light of recent headlines, that you uses the word "deprogram" three times. Or perhaps it is more interesting that she-whom-I-will-not-name (but let us call her Carolynn Lilith; let the reader understand) used it seriously (in regard to a disproportionately male majority of the American electorate) in her recent CNN interview. Now, understanding this movie better, it becomes apparent to me that her Mao-earnest proposal surfs a meme which should be a joke.