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It’s how you cut through the prison bars, obviously.

He might have to fight Outkast for it.

I miss my old Motorola Droid 2. I don’t need a thinner phone, give me that slider form factor.

This is the tricky part of representation, and it goes beyond just Barbie here. How do you represent an autistic character without just having them turn to the camera and tell the audience, “I, [character name], am officially and canonically autistic”? That often feels ham-fisted and shallow, pandering even, but anything less than that and you’ll have endless debates over whether a character that could be read as autistic-coded but never explicitly says it out loud counts or not.

Don’t ever be fooled into thinking corporations are your friend, or that anything they do doesn’t have selfish motives behind it. But we can acknowledge that being seen as a profitable demographic worth marketing to is… something. It is a sign of social progress.