Amid the noise of picture-perfect Barbies

Oh no, not another Alison Roman take, you say

but she has been the TALK of my two-person household for a good 60 percent of the past week’s waking hours. First I had to explain to the bemused, oblivious other half of the household who she is and, more importantly, What She Represents.

That done, I then found myself stewing (… heh get it, stewing) in my o…