Death to Barbie! Or, is America's favorite doll over the hill?

This was news to me, as I am way out of the demographic, but apparently the Barbie brand is so moribund these days that some are calling for it, and therefore her, to up and die. That sounds a bit rash, particularly because it is still the top-selling doll brand. Also there’s this: Just as she’s hung on eerily to her unreal-world figure for decades, you kind of know that if she were killed off, she’d soon come back from the dead when some new regime at Mattel decided it was a stupid idea to get rid of her in the first place.