DALROCK: Confusing make-believe with reality; why feminists obsess over Barbie.

No matter how many times Wakeman tried to return to the feminist narrative, her nieces always steered back to traditional girl areas of focus:

Elly’s Barbie then started “doing” my Barbie’s hair. I tried again. “Maybe one day, she’ll run for office,” I mused. “She could be a senator. She could sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

“I like her gown,” Mackenzie replied. . . .

Ironically Wakeman lives in the very world her nieces wanted to play in, she was just too busy playing make-believe to see it. In the real world Wakeman is a staff writer for a gossip site, not a senator or a doctor. The first five main categories in The Frisky’s banner are:

Sex
Relationships
Celebs
Style
Horoscopes

Had Wakeman only played Barbie the way she has played her real life and not her make-believe life, her nieces would have been delighted.

There’s more:

It turns out that Wakeman has recently left her post at The Frisky, and moved instead to YouBeauty.com:

I don’t think that blogging about hair and skin care and beauty will be be easy by any means, but I’m pretty sure it won’t make me cry!