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Nov 24, 2015
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Gen-X parent Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff isn’t buying the new Barbie commercial that shows young girls playacting doctors and professors in public. She says kids shouldn’t feel like they have to “perform” for an approving audience—because, as we’ve seen with Millennials, this leads to anxiety once that audience is gone.

—The Washington Post

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