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There’s a reason why queer people published their “Bash Back” materials! If you are truly oppressed, there is a legitimate argument to do just that! To put the Snuffed on sight shirt moreover I will buy this issue another way, in any other film, the Kens (or a similar group of people) might have been seen as revolutionaries fighting for their right to be recognised for their own worth, and the Barbies would be seen as the villains. Alternatively, if a separate film had made a story where women in the real world had finally had enough of patriarchy and rose up against their male oppressors, only for those men to start manly weeping or manly staring-out-of-a-window for ages before deciding to put women back in their place, it would rightly be derided as a male fantasy of being oppressed in a world that caters to them as the dominant class. However, the reassertion of the dominant Barbie matriarchy at the end of the film is presented not only as a “phew, we did it” in stopping the Kens from going too far, but as a joyous moment in which proper order is restored to the land, and the Kens are once again relegated to the back seat. Stereotypical Barbie is often borderline unsympathetic in her interactions with Gosling!Ken, who is the harmed party in their boyfriend-girlfriend relationship when faced with his romantic partner’s indifference and her unwillingness to stand up for said relationship in the face of Liu!Ken’s unsubtle advances (of course Gosling!Ken is so insecure when his girlfriend basically welcomes Liu!Ken touching her!), so it is hard to see the film’s conclusion as a triumph in the restoration of the apartheid. But the film still asks us to sympathise with the Barbies as we learn that they have been responsible for enforcing this divide, and toxicity creeps in when we’re asked to handwave these issues away in the spirit of some vaguely feminist ethos.
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