It's good. It's actually really good. Let's discuss some of the themes the movie brings up. I'm quite surprised to see so many online calling it feminist garbage. It was actually a refreshing take on modern gender relations.
1. Men and shame
Although the movie is about Barbie, it pays plenty of attention to Ken as well. He is Barbie's sidekick, and he is constantly trying to get her attention. He goes to the real world and he discovers patriarchy, and he is immediately in love with it. After a lifetime spent in Barbie World, for the first time, he is introduced to the idea of male supremacy. In many ways the Barbie/Ken relationship is somewhat abusive, with Barbie not making the nature of the relationship clear to Ken ever. It is clear Ken is enamoured of Barbie, and Barbie allows this to continue despite the feelings not being reciprocal.
Situations like this happen constantly in real life. Unfortunately, we seldom hear about it because men are shamed when they are abused by women. In Abused Men by Phillip Cook, this is discussed.
How many of these red flags are in your life? How many make an appearance in Barbie (2023)?
2. Machoism
Ken wants to win Barbie's heart, and he does so by trying to appear macho and catch her attention. Machoism is a common burden placed on men. It is considered to be an essential component of heterosexual attraction. However, as the movie illustrates, there are harmful aspects to machoism and they affect both men and women. Let's turn back to Cook.
3. Idealized Womanhood
The central issue in Barbie is that too much is expected of women. Oftentimes, the demands are completely contradictory. Nietzche is often portrayed as being anti-feminist and misogynistic. However, many scholars have instead argued that Nietzche is tearing down this idealized image of womanhood, which is what Barbie (2023) aims to achieve as well.
4. Shunning of victimhood
Despite discussing women's issues in depth, the movie never portrays women as victims. In this way, it stays true to the history of Barbie as a representation of the potential and capabilities within each girl. As Kajsa Ekis Ekman explains in Being and Being Bought:
I would like to criticize this for a moment. Sometimes, it is necessary to accept your victimhood. Only then can you begin the healing process. Relieve yourself of the burden! Admit that you've been hurt and made to feel weak! stop holding the secret in.
5. Vagina and womanhood
The movie ends with Barbie visiting a gynecologist. This is noteworthy because she chose to become a real woman, which would mean she would gain genitalia, which she explicitly stated she did not have prior. Why is the vagina so intrinsically tied to womanhood? Why does Barbie only become a real woman once she has a vagina? Is a woman reducible to her s*x organs?
I don't have answers, but it is worth thinking about. Also consider how, as Ekman argues, modern women in s*x work view the Self as separate from the vagina.
6. Buying women
The movie jokes about the fact that Ken lives in Barbie's shadow. There is something quite interesting about this, however. It is normal and common for Barbie to be bought. Yet the idea of buying Ken never catches on in the movie or in real life. I believe this ties into how we view men and women. Women are commodities that are bought and sold. This occurs in s*x work, in the pornification of media, and in the unpaid labour of the domestic domain.
Though Barbie has no doubt inspired many women, it is worthwhile to remember that there are real women who are bought and sold every day. Their reality is far from glamorous.
It is also worth noting that Barbie LIKES being bought and sold. This is perhaps the biggest gripe I have with the movie. Though Barbie (Margot Robbie) chooses to be a real woman, the rest of the Barbies remain as dolls despite knowing of the existence of the real world. They're explicitly choosing to remain commodities to be played with, and they love it! Every day of being an object is paradise for them. In many ways, this parallels the myth of the "happy hooker" who loves being bought and sold for s*x.
Sorry for the sloppy piece, I'm writing this before bed after watching the movie. In closing, I really enjoyed Barbie (2023). Although there are some criticisms to be waged against its handling of feminist issues, it was surprisingly more competent than I was expecting. If you're looking for a laugh and some light-hearted adventure go for it. If you're looking for a perfect feminist piece, look elsewhere. My biggest compliment is that it manages to handle gender relations in a way that adequately explains some of the issues that modern men face beyond simply "man scared to cry" e.g. how to relate to women, how to deal with a society where gender power dynamics are shifting. I think men will find it surprisingly meaningful.
BONUS: Google the word "Barbie" for some fabulous!
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Dudes rock, bottom line !fellas thoughts?
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boys go to jupiter to get more smartier
girls go to mars to fricking die I FRICKING HATE GIRLS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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girls = cooties
simple as
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You hear that
s? You will never be a woman
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Me @ Carp
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@carpathianflorist when are the janny hunger games or whatever that thing we needed to reserve dc for is?
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This movie is very much about the female fantasy but I've noticed how the modern female fantasy has gone to supporting hubris. Women irl want a relationship with a guy who's supposedly some standout unique dude who isn't a sexpest and pays attention to her. But that's demeaning and counter to being an independent girlboss, so the female fantasy now is "women has the safety net of a handsome guy who acts as what the female viewers want but she is a girlboss so she can focus on female friendships (which are totes not fake)." It's like manosphere losers who want to whores like them so they can safely pretend they only care about money instead of thots.
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I think
for many straight womyn they really want to control 
men via s*x. Kind of explain why straggot 
foids 
try their best of avoiding bi men.
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also where shoe badges
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And hwhere is mah hoarse
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Stop asking. You’re only going to prolong it 😭
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Whenever the 502s get sorted out lol I've been instructed to hold off until then I think because it will occupy workers
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Heck yeah!
That movie fricking slaps!
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lol i guess you weren't lying about that doctorate in english or something
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Analysis of the themes in barbie, as pertinent to men:
God darn Margot Robbie is hot.
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What are the political implications of me wanting to (consensually) r*pe Barbie on the hood of that pink Corvette?
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Stick it in her and call it the Great Cumpromise
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Read: criticising some strawman notion in my head that's obsessed with toys for children. There is no "idea" of Barbie, it's a toy that's been around for decades and had hundreds of iterations, and little girls play with it in a million different ways because they actually possess creativity, unlike most academics.
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FFS i come on rdrama.net largely to avoid this religious nonsense. I assumed parody at first, but the amount of effort put into it has to preclude it from being parody.
This post is patriarchy theory feminism/Trump is the greatest US president ever/God Hates Strags levels of deranged.
Have you ever spent time off the internet? Ever?
Just one example:
This is called commerce. One person fronts up a service or product, another gives money in exchange. When i hire a tradesmen i'm not literally 'buying' that person, any more than a john is buying a woman he pays for s*x.
You literally have to see women as r-slurred children with no agency whatsoever and men as James Bond level supervillains to think this way. Grow up. Seriously, grow the frick up.
This is not measurable evidence-based reality and you are neither clever nor moral. You're just every religious nutter ever.
Also, this should be in /h/kino or /h/schizo.
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Some of us have humanities degrees, sweaty. We're just making mom and dad proud
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Pick one.
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Nah. You just look at the bottom percentage of society. Lots of girls acting like complete whores not out of actively choosing to, but never trying to be better in any way. Lots of manchildren treating life as if it's dragonball Z and they need to be recognised as the biggest peepee frfr.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbenheimer
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So does this actually criticise feminism or is that a separate issue
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All those words wont bring your dad back
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an acquaintance said that it 'criticised the idea of Barbie', making me think it's probably goyslop, but you got me interested again. Good work OP.
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Fiscally Left
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morgot robbie looks like a trans woman
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post selfie
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Dude in that pic is 16 btw
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Sounds like a bunch of commie gobbledegook if you ask me.
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I can't wait for this to the latest movie that I ironically miss the point of and have a bunch of nerds tell me that I'm not media literate because I talk about Kenism, Kenocracy, and the Ken uprising and the Gynocracy and how that says a lot about Western society.
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How hot is Ken in the movie and how many different outfits does he get dolled up in
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Gosling is fricking ok, but they really should have gotten a fricking Ken with a fricking symmetrical face
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Niqqa im not reading all those words about the barbie movie lmao
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I'm not taking this movie's commentary seriously ever since the teaser suggested Barbie was to first non-baby doll (oh and because it's a stupid movie)
btw, does the movie mention that "fact" or was it just for the teaser?
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My grandpa was a toy collector and had a massive collection of mint condition boxed collectable barbies, like 15,000 of them, also had like 30,000 hotwheels too. It was pretty dank because always got brand new toys whenever we visited him
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So what's the correct viewing order? Oppenheimer -> Barbie or Barbie -> Oppenheimer?
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zoz
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zle
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So is this Barbie and Oppenheimer shit the most blatant internet shill campaign ever?
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Girl toy with cooties
Literally me
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proof the soviet union collapsing has been disastrous for america
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this was the most r-slurred take ive read so far
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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y'all need a tl;dr bot (but only 50% accurate)
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