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YES!!!! To boot, the film was written by a woman and a man, Gerwig and her partner Baumbach. I thought the ending was very pro-man. If anything I was slightly annoyed the Kendom part of the movie was so long but I also felt like it addresses the problematic aspects of having any gender driven utopia narrative / it’s inherently creating a second class to the secondary gender. I liked that the movie surfaced this in a thoughtful and provocative way and thank you for the link to the speech. It was so accessible and I felt it in my bones

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Barbie is a universal-misogynist movie.

Roles are flipped and the clock is dialed back so the women are in charge and the men are the disenfranchised who then make a complete mess of things then they try to take over so end up given a secondary environment to do their own thing in without affecting the real decisions that run "Barbieland".

But recall the rolls are swapped. What needs to happen to the Kens in Barbaieland is now a microcosm for what needs to happen to women IRW. Once-upon-a-time they had _high_ _society_ to run.

Fifty years of ever more feminism; one hundred years of ever more socialism and by every single happiness metric measured the country is worse off. White women aren't happier never mind anyone else.

What feminism really did was double the work-force to make the elite families more money.

If the reader is unaware it was not men (nor politicians) but bourgeois women that opposed women's suffrage because politics was such a mundane, dirty rat-race it was deemed below what women were capable of achieving but necessary for society to function so it was delegated to men to deal with. And the bourgeois women accurately predicted that American high-society would end if women got deeply involved in politics.

The most-reasonable American law at the time was property owners got one vote; this ensured only people that had their shit-together got to help make decisions that affected everyone and should a woman find herself a sole-property-owner (e.g. widow) she voted at her pleasure. What was frowned upon was both the husband and wife voting because that effectively violated the one-vote rule giving that household twice the votes of the others. (Bear in mind that voting was an ordeal - someone had to travel to cast the vote and someone needed to keep the homestead running.)

So no, there is no angle from which Barbieland is a women-empowering movie and none of the drivel in the above dopey take even touched on why it would be anti-men or anti-women. It's just another avenue of art screaming at everyone involved to fix the core problem.

Super-anxious people should not at work in a cubical and put under pressure to get things done and that means 80% of women and 20% of men should be doing something else and society needs to figure out how to put them back to doing someone useful instead of being fish-out-of-water and consequentially net-negatives making everything worse for everyone.

The notion that we live in patriarch is so laughably stupid. Do you have any idea what this world would be like if men actually treated women as objects? The fundamental exchange is he loves her and she respects him. As a man in this world if your mother didn't love you, no one ever will.

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