But my main objection is that Barbie is not really a film about Barbie at all. It’s one hour and 54 minutes of extended misandry, dressed up with a few fun dance routines and one or two (granted fairly decent) jokes.
It’s a deeply anti-man movie, an extension of all that TikTok feminism that paints any form of masculinity — other than the most anodyne — as toxic and predatory, and frames women’s liberation not as a movement based on achieving equality between the sexes but as a cultural revenge vehicle designed to write men out of the story altogether.
Every male character is either an idiot, a bigot or a sad, rather pathetic loser. If the roles were reversed, and a male director made a film about how all women were hysterical, neurotic, gold-digging witches, it would be denounced — quite rightly — as deeply offensive and sexist.
It is this kind of popular media that is infecting the minds of the young. On the surface it celebrates women, but it does so in a very shallow and toxic way. And it reinforces the misandry that has been spreading through Western society for the past 50 years.
This is written by a feminist, for an audience they assume to be equally feminist. It’s tone-def and mean spirited, but what did you expect from a feminist?
Are you talking about the movie or the article reviewing it?
The movie itself.
The place I live in (India)there’s social media influencers who’re saying - because oppenheimer sold 10 times more tickets than Barbie, Indian men are sexist.
The obvious answer is that women in India did not grow up with Barbie, not many people over there know what Barbie is so why would they have any interest in watching it?
They probably have the toy in India nowadays.
You can get them over there but they’re expensive. I’ve never seen kids play with them over there.
What’s truly infuriating is how they lied about the nature of their product to get asses in seats. Impressionable children no less.
This is not entertainment, this is propaganda.
I have no intention of watching this movie.
I don’t see how someone like Alan is a loser? And isn’t the idea that men shouldn’t tie their worth to their ability to get women a pro male sentiment?
I can’t give a full assessment - my niece has asked me to see it with her this weekend.
I think much of the criticism has to do with the hypocrisy of filmmakers being so concerned about how women are portrayed, and then “forgetting” to include a male character in this film who is either kind or has two brain cells to rub together.
As for the messages about men not being defined by women and male solidarity, I’m curious to see how this is presented. The cynic in me feels like it will be presented as kind of a joke, but we’ll see.
