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Sinead Murphy
Mattel has launched Autistic Barbie. Because children with autism should be visible, including to themselves.
‘Every child deserves to see themselves in Barbie.’ So goes Mattel’s blurb.
It is a theme of our times: being visible, seeing ourselves, coming-out into the light. Launched in the domain of what is called ‘sexuality,’ it is now a general possibility with multiple pathways.
And everything gives way before it. There can be no objection to coming out. It can only add to the supply of what is good.
It is a lie, destructive of health and happiness. Out is truth, and promoting of health and happiness.
But while we busy ourselves with one or other modes of coming out, we overlook the usefulness of coming out, not to us who do it but to those who seek to manage us who do it.
Because coming out implies a number of useful effects.
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