It is a sad irony that the Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor died just after the movie Barbie was released, because the feminist philosophy of ‘patriarchy’, which underpins the movie’s plot, is a cause of her tragic death at the relatively young age of 56. To understand the feminist idea of ‘patriarchy’, think of what ordinary people believe is common sense, and then reverse the logic.
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