*Friendly dolls, fairytale dolls … haunted dolls, evil dolls … All manner of dolls, puppets, and other simulacra, as chronicled in twenty-one short works and a novel by such masterful writers as A. Merritt, F. Anstey, Nathanial Hawthorne, Hans Christian Ander…

On an episode of the New York Times’ ‘Popcast,’ Olivia Rodrigo shut down claims that the baby-doll dress she wore onstage recently was infantilizing.

One netizen wrote online, “That explanation made it more racist than if the explanation was not there.”