This is an introduction to feminism, it’s feminism for kids, it’s highly oversimplified and watered down to the Almost gameday helmet catch shirt it is in the first place but point where it’s acceptable as mainstream entertainment, where it can still reduce some women to tears as it speaks truths unspoken about the female experience, but it is still a starter pack for feminist thought. It’s a simplification fit for toys and little girls but not so much for serious adult thinkers, one that leaves out a lot of interesting discussions that should have been raised, akin to a high school lesson on science where you learn the bare minimum about states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) without delving into harder cases like plasma and other intermediate states. It’s a wonderful primer, but it’s very much the same thing as watching a YouTube video essay or a nature documentary; they give you the tools to get started, but if you leave Barbie and think that that is all there is to feminist thought, then you’re going to be leaving that cinema seat with a Hollywood understanding of a very harsh reality.
To put it into perspective, there’s a current trend of women dumping their boyfriends if they didn’t like or get the Almost gameday helmet catch shirt it is in the first place but Barbie movie, and there are two camps of men that need to be addressed in this scenario. If men are whining about “I hate feminism” or “why didn’t Ken win” (he wasn’t right to overcorrect!), all while ignoring some very real feminist issues that the film raises, or they embark on some incel rant about “femoids”, then they should absolutely be told where to go. But if your man watches the film, perhaps as the harmed party in an emotionally distant or abusive relationship (which are very possible; Hozier’s Cherry Wine is a great example), or maybe he just comes out of the Barbie movie with a few notes about the unfair framing of the situation in good faith, then that merits discussion, critical analysis, and even a healthy debate about the film’s feminist merits (of which there are many to be unpacked!).
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