I love the movie. It is the movie most critical of feminism I've ever seen in my life.
The rejection of Ken by the real world because he had no competence is the opposite of what feminists tell each each other. Notice how Mattel, an male only company, is monitoring Barbieland and sorts out any disturbance while the Barbies keep living in a bizarre illusion. When boys play with trucks and digging machines they tend to simulate reality and learn how you control it. How quickly do you think it will start to smell without water in the shower?
See how in Barbieland you're president if you have a shawl with "president" on it, no competence required. It is not even necessary to be interested in law when you're a supreme court judge, the only thing that is truly all-important is being recognized in the role by the other Barbies. This female motivation is very true but I've never seen it pointed out in other movies.
Notice that we never really see how Ken takes over Barbieland, for all we know the Barbies could've enjoyed the change. After all, real beer does seem an improvement over cups of tea without tea.
However, the takeover from the mother is the most blatant brainwashing I've ever seen in a movie. It is a nod to the power of feminism that this is not obvious. The Barbies are kidnapped into a van, drugged, and then a magic incantation of the mother magically changes them into feminists after the beep. The incantation is full of emotional incontinence but lacks even one iota of reason and logic.
Ken land had beer, Barbie land had showers that did not work. It was men that kept the illusion going. The whole Mattel board came to the rescue when there was a disturbance. This is very similar to real life where the majority of the work to keep this world running is done by men but it is rarely so openly acknowledged.
The Barbies used sex to create fights between the Ken's and then steal a democratic election. Both actions are deeply amoral and I think they were displayed as such.
I loved it, best anti-feminist movie ever. And the beauty is that so few people seem to see it.
I just watched this last night, and was hoping I'd find you here! When I saw Ben Shapiro did a 40+ minute review of this one, I knew immediately it had to be either not actually feminist or in fact subversive. Someone who's been doing years of critique in the genre can't need 40 minutes!
The movie is not actually feminist. It is certainly not feminist enough for a feminist to hold up as exemplary, as shown by your Ken quote. I think it's even a fair bit reactionary!
Perhaps the biggest critique a man could levy against modern feminism is that it prompts previous non-combatants to "keep score", for the purpose of *losing*. This critique can be done humorously, and it used to, i.e. Bill Burr's "mother is the most difficult job on the planet" bit. However, it's no longer a source of humor. How many kids, who aren't even old enough to have kissed a girl, are watching "Sigma" shorts? How many incels were there in the 1970s?
So the main method of doing this critique is out the door, what's an entertainer to do? Barbie has the answer: Lean In. The opening of the second act literally runs a commercial for men, and it rocks! The Founding Fathers! Sports! Trucks and beer! Stocks! Cinema! What can't a man do! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbbV5gR-Gw) To men, Barbie says: The world is, in fact, yours! Of course, none of this is true in Barbieworld, where "maybe someday the Kens will get a supreme court justice."
On the flipside: The movie begins with young girls abandoning their baby dolls for Stereotypical Barbie. The movie is explicit that motherhood doesn't "sell", but when we expect another surly teenaged heroine, instead Barbie gives us a friendly and upbeat mom! "You have to be their mom, but not their mom" says the mom who saves the day.
I love the movie. It is the movie most critical of feminism I've ever seen in my life.
The rejection of Ken by the real world because he had no competence is the opposite of what feminists tell each each other. Notice how Mattel, an male only company, is monitoring Barbieland and sorts out any disturbance while the Barbies keep living in a bizarre illusion. When boys play with trucks and digging machines they tend to simulate reality and learn how you control it. How quickly do you think it will start to smell without water in the shower?
See how in Barbieland you're president if you have a shawl with "president" on it, no competence required. It is not even necessary to be interested in law when you're a supreme court judge, the only thing that is truly all-important is being recognized in the role by the other Barbies. This female motivation is very true but I've never seen it pointed out in other movies.
Notice that we never really see how Ken takes over Barbieland, for all we know the Barbies could've enjoyed the change. After all, real beer does seem an improvement over cups of tea without tea.
However, the takeover from the mother is the most blatant brainwashing I've ever seen in a movie. It is a nod to the power of feminism that this is not obvious. The Barbies are kidnapped into a van, drugged, and then a magic incantation of the mother magically changes them into feminists after the beep. The incantation is full of emotional incontinence but lacks even one iota of reason and logic.
Ken land had beer, Barbie land had showers that did not work. It was men that kept the illusion going. The whole Mattel board came to the rescue when there was a disturbance. This is very similar to real life where the majority of the work to keep this world running is done by men but it is rarely so openly acknowledged.
The Barbies used sex to create fights between the Ken's and then steal a democratic election. Both actions are deeply amoral and I think they were displayed as such.
I loved it, best anti-feminist movie ever. And the beauty is that so few people seem to see it.
I loved the line from Ken: "To be honest, when I found out the patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyway."
I just watched this last night, and was hoping I'd find you here! When I saw Ben Shapiro did a 40+ minute review of this one, I knew immediately it had to be either not actually feminist or in fact subversive. Someone who's been doing years of critique in the genre can't need 40 minutes!
The movie is not actually feminist. It is certainly not feminist enough for a feminist to hold up as exemplary, as shown by your Ken quote. I think it's even a fair bit reactionary!
Perhaps the biggest critique a man could levy against modern feminism is that it prompts previous non-combatants to "keep score", for the purpose of *losing*. This critique can be done humorously, and it used to, i.e. Bill Burr's "mother is the most difficult job on the planet" bit. However, it's no longer a source of humor. How many kids, who aren't even old enough to have kissed a girl, are watching "Sigma" shorts? How many incels were there in the 1970s?
So the main method of doing this critique is out the door, what's an entertainer to do? Barbie has the answer: Lean In. The opening of the second act literally runs a commercial for men, and it rocks! The Founding Fathers! Sports! Trucks and beer! Stocks! Cinema! What can't a man do! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbbV5gR-Gw) To men, Barbie says: The world is, in fact, yours! Of course, none of this is true in Barbieworld, where "maybe someday the Kens will get a supreme court justice."
On the flipside: The movie begins with young girls abandoning their baby dolls for Stereotypical Barbie. The movie is explicit that motherhood doesn't "sell", but when we expect another surly teenaged heroine, instead Barbie gives us a friendly and upbeat mom! "You have to be their mom, but not their mom" says the mom who saves the day.