Rebecca Kiessling on "Barbie" (published on social media)
For my birthday, I thought it would be fun to take my teen daughters to see "BarbieTheMovie". We wore pink and thought we were in for lots of laughs, a bit of nostalgia and maybe a nice message. [Spoiler …More
For my birthday, I thought it would be fun to take my teen daughters to see "BarbieTheMovie". We wore pink and thought we were in for lots of laughs, a bit of nostalgia and maybe a nice message. [Spoiler alert] But right away, little girls are depicted as oppressed by having to play with baby dolls, unhappy having to push strollers, all wearing drab prairie dresses. Then life-size 50s Barbie appears and they celebrate by brutally and angrily smashing their baby dolls' heads in. I immediately thought, "Uh oh."
But then I was amused to see what I'd hoped for: the life-size re-creation of Malibu Barbie world, which was very nostalgic for me.
However, I immediately thought it was odd that Barbie blew off Ken - like Ken and Barbie were never a thing. But I still anticipated that she'd realize how rude she's been, how "her Ken" and all the other Kens are homeless, car-less, jobless, etc, and that maybe there would be a positive message there with balance being achieved in the end.
But no, it …More
But then I was amused to see what I'd hoped for: the life-size re-creation of Malibu Barbie world, which was very nostalgic for me.
However, I immediately thought it was odd that Barbie blew off Ken - like Ken and Barbie were never a thing. But I still anticipated that she'd realize how rude she's been, how "her Ken" and all the other Kens are homeless, car-less, jobless, etc, and that maybe there would be a positive message there with balance being achieved in the end.
But no, it …More
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Sounds like they hate baby dolls,or is it just babies.
Sal Venegas
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Oh, sounds like the male characters in this movie are like most male characters from sitcoms and commercials over the last few decades, specially the ones were the male character depicts a dad.
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Candace Owens recognizes Barbie movie as anti- man. “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.”
