As that tune’s title makes clear, “I’m Just Ken” is a navel-gazing ode-to-self sung, as he puts it, Barbie while strumming doggedly at his guitar in a surfeit of frustrated, displaced sexual energy emanating from the supposedly sexless figure.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/in-search-of-barbies-voice/

European proposals for an international peace summit are just pointless navel-gazing, diplomats say.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/who-needs-the-eus-irrelevant-gaza-peace-plan-the-eu-does-of-course/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

House Republicans have invested far too much energy in navel-gazing at a time when we're in crisis mode here in the United States.

Source: https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2023/12/04/the-morning-briefing-george-santos-shouldnt-have-been-tossed-from-the-gop-clown-car-n4924449

The book doesn’t stray beyond Molly’s navel-gazing.

Source: https://flaglerlive.com/on-flagler-schools-ban-list-the-upside-of-unrequited-a-review-and-a-recommendation/