dankmemes23:

ankle-beez:

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

barbiethemovie:

envelopandkissme:

this fucks

snoopysfriendwoodstock:

barbie is not a feminist because she’s a doll, but your memories are real & they matter & they’re barbie

castiels-husband:

“Ken wouldn’t do that to Barbie, it’s out of character!” Babes, that is the point.

Ken and his discovery of the patriarchy and the way it changes him is the exact same as what happens with adolescent boys. You have these guys who were so close to you, wether through friendship or family become people that they aren’t due to both peer pressure and the desire to hold power. Especially with the whole “podcast bro” thing he had going on in the Ken Dojo Casa House scene, Ken represents all the boys that lean into the patriarchy and change for the worst.

Ken was always so sweet, he was stupid and lovable and would do anything for Barbie. Then he got roped into toxic masculinity and all of a sudden he was cruel and pretentious. This is the same path that many of the guys I was friends with as a kid fell down. Barbie represents growing up as a woman and Ken represents growing up as a man.

animentality:

tapdancing-eggs:

Remember how we were little and we loved pink and Barbie and dolls and princesses?

Remember how we got old enough to realize that people were making fun of us and not enough people told us to ignore them so we got embarrassed and we hated ourselves. Pink was our least favorite color until perhaps recently when we were neutral towards it at best.

But something in us changed when we decided we needed to see Barbie (2023). The women and girls I saw wearing their best pinks today. I purposely bought MYSELF something pink for the first time I can remember.

We’re giving ourselves the freedom we took away.

whitesunlars:

my one (1) complaint about the barbie movie is that they showed the only horses in Barbieland being horse head on stick toys when really there should have been a representation of the direct doll to horse girl pipeline of barbie pegasus. 

i’m not saying a cgi horse. i’m saying a giant plastic barbie pegasus. 

ultrafangirlishness:

The Barbie Movie.

A small, non-comprehensive list of things that stood out to me (spoilers? Kind of?)

• The soundtrack
• All the jokes that played off of what it was actually like to play with barbies (the pool & ocean being flat, the cups having no drinks in them, the shower having no water, etc.
• TRANS BARBIE
• The choreography
• The “I Am Kenough” tie-dye sweater
• Barbies of many shapes and sizes! All very beautiful!
• THE ENDING, OH MA LORD. Both the way the story concluded really beautifully, but also the ending joke that no one was prepared for—
• Just… everything about Ryan Gosling’s performance
• Kate McKinnon playing the deranged, “ugly” Barbie
• In the same vein, that movie would NOT have been complete without representing the kids who played with their dolls “too hard” (cutting their hair, bending them in weird ways, etc.)
• Acknowledging that Barbie did in fact mean a lot to some girls. This movie was geared towards everyone, whether you grew up loving Barbie or hating her.
• The mom and her daughter
• The fact that when Barbie was starting to become “defective” and/or when she was in the real world, you could start to see her “"flaws”“. Like I noticed in some scenes her eyebrows were unplucked and no longer perfectly sculpted, or her skin no longer perfectly smooth with foundation.
• It was clear that SO much thought and research was put into this. I couldn’t believe how many references there were to specific clothing items, certain playsets, etc.
• The fact that Barbie and Ken DIDN’T end up together, and that Barbie DIDN’T indulge Ken in his flirtations (is that a word?) even once
• THE FACT THAT I WAS SO CLOSE TO ACTUAL TEARS LIKE SEVEN TIMES???? LIKE WHAT????
• The weird dark humor coming out of nowhere
• The fact that Barbie never once looked at the human women (who were "imperfect” in comparison to her) with disgust
• ……the moment between her and the woman on the bench 😭😭😭
• The mom’s rant about how hard it is being a woman (esp a mother) and how you can never win 🙌🙏
• The misogyny in the Real World was so well done. It wasn’t overexaggated or over the top it was just NORMAL EVERYDAY LIFE
• THE JOKE ABOUT HAVING A MAN SIT YOU DOWN TO TALK ABOUT THE GODFATHER ASDJGKDLW
• The moment where I went “OH so THAT’S where the mugshot memes came from”
• Ruth Handler <3
• The fact that everyone came to the theater dressed either in pink or Barbie-like attire :)

spongebobssquarepants:

bizarrette:

I work at a movie theater.

And personally? To be in the tickets booth, and see young girls, teenagers, adult women, coming in to see Barbie,

the most highlighter pink outfits, some of them coming in with the dolls they’re dressed as, laughing to each other, cheering for each other,

to see the men they’re coming to see it with, dressed in pink, cheering them on, taking their pictures with smiles and cheers in the lobby at the photo op

touches something so deep in me

I can’t say any nuances of the movie that haven’t already been said, but like, fuck man, love is so deep and so kind and to be able to see glimpses of it from behind my little ticket desk makes me a little less nihilistic.

mask-knife-is-kohgas-wife:

Working at a movie theatre and a male coworker being like ugh all these guys being forced to dress as Ken for their girlfriends but every couple I see is just beautiful excited girls and their absolutely adoring boyfriends looking at them glowing in the sunlight from the theatre sunroof in the popcorn line and like

This is why you don’t have a girlfriend man. Men in fact love and adore their partners wake up we love men sound in their masculinity

animentality: