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yknow that scene in barbie where a guy slaps barbies ass, and SHE gets arrested? well done greta gerwig for representing the fact that most women get BLAMED for sexual assault rather than the man. i hope men realize how stupid sexual assault is
for me, the way i viewed the conversation between the old woman and barbie on the bench is also a matter of confidence.
when you compare the barbies in barbieland and the old woman on the bench, they practically say the same thing ("i'm beautiful") but their confidence and the core and roots behind it is so different.
the barbies in barbieland are confident out of ignorant, they have nothing to not be confident about. they're made of plastic, they have no cellulite, no private parts; it's always perfect in barbieland, so their hair is always perfect, their clothes, their shoes, everything is perfect. there's no bad day, no prejudice, no standards that you can't be part of in barbieland. so when the barbies say "i'm beautiful", they say it because they're ignorant. the core of their confidence is ignorance.
but when the old woman responds to barbie with "i know" to the "you're beautiful" comment, the confidence she has has a completely different core than the barbies. the old woman is the antithesis of everything you should be in barbieland. she's old, she has wrinkles, crow's feet, white hair, no hair. she has all of these qualities that our society will say is not beautiful, is ugly that these are things you avoid with skincare, retinol, botox all these things. the old woman lives in a society where the mass will not view her as beautiful.
and yet she's still confident, she still says "i know" because despite what everyone says, what all the standards are, she knows she's beautiful. thousands of people can disagree and say she's not, it won't matter because she knows she is. the old woman is confident despite knowing.
the thing that gets me about the barbie movie being framed as an "anti-men" movie is that it's fundamentally untrue to the message it's sending out. the movie is an empowering feminist piece as much as it is a cautionary tale about men letting their insecurities and doubts about their place in the world lead them to falling into the alt-right/incel/mra pipeline. it's looking out for men just as much as it's looking out for women, and the only reason you might find this as an "anti-men" message is because you somehow deeply believe that this is the wrong message to send
also I loved Allen. All the Kens were let down by the patriarcy in the end (because it really doesn't benefit anyone when it comes down to it, the 'benefits' are so temporary and come at a great cost) but from the beginning Allen was representative of men that suffer at the hands of the patriarcy for being perceived as too feminine. They aren't quite treated like women because they aren't women, but their femininity/feminine considered traits make them outsiders too. The men who buy into the patriarcy also look down on other men who don't conform to their ideals as well as all women.
So he runs off with sasha and her mother, because he too finds that environment unbearable and I just really felt for him
Something I found very interesting about the Barbie movie was the Ken’s mimicking of patriarchy. I’ve seen some comments putting it as a stance of men’s inherent desire to oppress women but would argue it much more reflects the socialization process many young boys experience that encourages them take on misogynistic views. The kens do not resent the Barbie’s. They’ve grown up in a society the Barbie’s run and the adore and love them. I think you could say that reflects the early stages of life for many boys where often the main role models they know are women, their mothers (as they often have a more involved role than fathers) and eventually their teachers, which women still make up the vast majority of early childhood educators.
The Kens also notably lack a sense of brotherhood at the start of the movie. And it isn’t until they’re in the real world our main Ken experiences positive male attention and approval (which is only due to him also being a man). It is that desire for approval from his male peers that initially drives him to believe in patriarchy.
There is of course also the underlying struggle of his unrequited feelings for Barbie, but none of the kens truly resent the Barbies. They don’t actually want them as oppressed servants. Yes they want their attention, but even during kendom we see them happiest on their cheesy guitar playing group date. They begin oppressing Barbie’s not because it’s what they actually want but rather it’s them mimicking the behaviour of men.
And that is why I think it makes such a great ode to the socialization of young boys to be misogynistic. Boys do not have an innate hatred for women, nor is it something they naturally grow into of their own fruition. But rather it’s a patterned of learned behaviours they in most cases initially mimic for the approval of other men or to gain attention, but overtime becomes a very real ideology then adopt and believe in and likely pass on.
I find the fact that the Barbie movie is simultaneously being criticized by the right as “too radical”, and criticized by the left as “too nice to men” and/or “too pandering”, quite funny, given that America’s WHOLE SPEECH was about how, no matter what women (like the director of the Barbie movie) do, it will simultaneously always be too little and too much.
you all are so much stronger than me because i am willing to throw HANDS to defend the barbie movie. the second a MAN has the audacity so say "i didn't relate to it" (of course you didn't, it's not for you) or "it's not that deep" (yes it is, learn media literacy) or "it's man hating propaganda" (no it isn't, it's anti patriarchy which suppresses both men and women) or "i'm not watching it because it's too pink and girly" (seriously just. grow up already) it's on SIGHT.
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I kind of perceive the arc of the kens as being about young boys being taught toxic masculinity for the first time and starting to internalise it.
To me, the most heartbreaking moment in the Barbie movie was her realizing that her friend, Ken, is not the person she thought he is because he hurt her simply because she didn't feel the same way about him.
That part where he took her house and everything else and him being overly aggressive towards her when he realized that even with the changes he made to his personality did not change the way she felt toward him was a representation of men reacting violently after being rejected just a little less brutal but a representation nonetheless
Me after Barbie movie explaining to my friends that Barbie-Land is not supposed to be an opposition to patriarchy or ken-land and that there is no society that can be the systematic equivalent of patriarchy, no society where Barbies would dominate or appropriate ken's bodies or oppress. and even ken himself didn't have any preconceived idea about patriarchy in Barbie-land until he went to the real world and brought with him an idealized representation of masculinity that is inherently coercive and a symbolic system of oppression BUT most importantly, the take from Barbies rebelling against Ken-land is that women should NEVER feel bad or responsible for the male alienation and voided identity and the loneliness that they experience because of the system they created and they perpetuate, anyway, excellent movie actually lol
Barbie ( the movie) reminds me of my childhood but not as in pink and music no it reminds me of the little adorable boys that I grew up with and were friends with that suddenly stopped talking when I walked into the room . It reminds me of the first time I saw my brother look at a girl my own age and talk to her like an object and the first time I had to wear my hoodie so I don't give the boys ideas and barbie reminds me of screaming at my mom as a teenager and how much of a shitty ungrateful kid I am and barbie reminds me of the "nice guys" that feel entitled to me because they pay attention to me and I should pay them back for acknowledging me and barbie reminds me a lot of performing femininity and having to live off masculinity and barbie reminds me a lot of feminism and its relevance and barbie reminds me of the vile things men say and top it up with "that's just locker room talk" and the first time I stopped being person and became "girl".
The fact that Barbie didn't even hate Ken she just didn't love him and what did he do?? DESTROY HER ENTIRE WORLD. The fact that after getting attention ken wanted barbie to be his "long distance low maintainance girlfriend" the fact that Barbie had to apologize for "leading Ken on" when all she did was not flirt with him. The fact that critics are calling it man hating because "the men are only objects" and that's top misandry and the women don't even abuse the men. Or control them. Or r*pe them or dehumanize them they just leave them alone and that's "misandry" and the fact that men feel objectified for not having a main role even though the movie is BARBIE and Ken got an entire redemption arc and the fact that Ken doesn't even get sexualized but if this was James Bond with a hot blond bimbo to pump and dump it'd be fine.
Barbie reminds me of liberal thoughts but conservative lifestyle. It reminds me of why i will never have kids. It reminds me of feminine rage and female existence. Of things I try to overlook but still notice.
It reminds me of how much I love being a woman but my God don't I despise female fate.
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the barbie movie pointing out the hypocrisies and impossibilities of existing under the patriarchy by imagining what life under a matriarchal society would look like… the barbie movie using the images and metaphors of them being dolls to highlight the way society rewards the external performance of perfection under patriarchal standards rather than rewarding any kind of internal complexity… the doll “becoming real” as a metaphor for self-actualization which requires no permission other than the desire within oneself to do so but which can only be truly accomplished when these standards of perfection and thus the performances thereof are understood and acknowledged for the contradictions they contain… well it’s brilliant. i mean what else can i say
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I kind of perceive the arc of the kens as being about young boys being taught toxic masculinity for the first time and starting to internalise it.
The Barbie Movie is the movie of all time for many reasons, but the core message being "Perfoming gender roles hurts everyone, you should be your authentic self no matter what society says" really knocked it out of the park
ppl saying the barbie movie is anti-men CLEARLY did not get the point of the movie
like barbieland is the exact opposite of the real world because the kens in barbieland are treated similarly to how women are treated in the real world
and like. it’s talked about and (somewhat) resolved- barbie apologizes to ken for taking him for granted, and helps him realize he needs to live for himself, not for her
the only “anti-men” stuff is just making fun of and criticizing toxic masculinity which is totally valid, and it takes into account how it negatively impacts men as well (obviously not to the extent it harms women tho)
also the “i’m a man with no power, does that make me a woman?” was so fucking funny i kinda loved aaron. and ken completely losing interest in the patriarchy when he learned it has nothing to do with horses? peak cinema
