Barbie is TOXIC for women 

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It is literally impossible to be a person. You have to go to sleep sometimes; but you also have to remember to wake up again. You have to eat, but not eat so much that you throw it all up. You have to go to the toilet; but you've also got to wipe your butt afterwards. You have to breathe in; but you also have to remember to breathe out. And nobody even gives you a medal or says thank you!

Still disappointed they went the Barbie vs Ken route instead of making them a mutually supportive power couple

the irony is as a woman I related more with Ken than Barbie haha

"False body expectations for women" Shows multiple sized barbies but every single ken has to be ripped

Barbie also forgets to mention how everything in that speech, women having to be perfect, is true for men too. They must be masculine, but not too masculine. They must also be sensitive. They need to earn good money, but not too much. They need to be supportive but not too soft. They need to be strong, but also weak. They need to be good looking (or women won’t even look at them) but accept ugly/sloppy women. They need to learn to cry, but also hold up barbie when she is crying. They need to have a job, but also help out around the house. They need to be kind, but also protect women. “Chivalry is dead” and it’s apparently all mens fault, yet it’s hard to find a real lady nowadays. Men must be gentlemen, but women can be trashy. Men must not hit women, but women can hit men. Men don’t help around the house, but women do all the work? 🤨 Women are never lazy, but all men are? Men rule the world, yet men are no longer aloud to make jokes in the workplace or they could be taken to court for offending. Women can make sexist jokes about men but god forbid if a man did that. What’s happening to men reminds me of when people say white people cannot experience racism. Apparently men aren’t being ruled over by women. Regarding the me too movement - a whole lot of women took down an untouchable leader in Hollywood but women still insist they have no power. I’d love if you did some videos showing this too, please. There are a lot of good men in this world. They work hard and help out at home. They support their women just as much as women support their men. We need more women saying this and sticking up for the good men out there. You are amazing. I look forward to more of your videos. I miss them when you go quiet. I know you have a life but you are one of my favourites and I always look forward to them. Thank you.

Ferrara getting an oscar nom just because of that speech shows how pointless the oscars are

I saw someone describe the speech as "a Tumblr post circa 2012" and I haven't been able to think of it any other way since.

“Life is hard and nobody gives me a medal for it.” This is exclusive to women..? 🤔

America Ferrera: “You have to…” Any rational viewer: “Who says you have to?”

"it's literally impossible to be a woman" I look at my wife in amazement as she has been doing it very talentedly all her life. Bravo wife! You're ahead of all of Hollywood.

Ken was actually responsible for 50% of barbie's success.

The complaints monologue in this movie makes women sound like children, and the pressures usually come from their internalised voices. Most of the 'society' issues which they blame on patriarchy is policed by other women.

The fact people thought this should have had Oscar nods and were outraged by its lack of them are living in a Malibu dream house.

The America Ferrara speech that everyone goes crazy about is actually terrible. It's basically just a bunch of complaining about how hard it is to be a good person

America Ferrera's character's monologue is incredibly cringe and gives me secondhand embarrassment. Like are you THAT fragile that you can't handle life?

The Princess Bride was definitely a better movie. 💕

ryan gosling winning the awards instead of the desperate margot and gurwig was poetic

Barbie is like the opposite of Legally Blonde. Elle is captured by the immature ideas that are similar to what Ferrera monologs, yet shown to be unhealthy...but then she works hard, achieves great success, & awakens to the codependent ideas that were dragging her down. A great story of true femininity & accomplishment - she realizes her desire to study Law was unhealthy but in that process of self discovery Elle becomes a good person with her own wants & desires, shucks off the codependency, and actually pursues her dreams with passion.

I hated Barbie's message for how complacient it is "Women have to be thin but not too thin! pretty but not say they wanna be pretty..." So what? What if you're not any of that? So what if you say you wanna be thin? So what if you wanna talk all the time about your kids? So what if you wanna be a successful businesswoman? They'll think you are vain. They'll think you are annoying. They'll think you are greedy So what? Who cares what other people think? Do their comments have more weight on your decisions instead of what you want? Do you know what men do? Men either comply to society's expectations, or do whatever they want. There's no middle ground for them "Tough luck, kid. Suck it up" "Oh you don't wanna? Sure. But now you're on your own" That's how men built empires, discovered new worlds and changed the world But that's also how men lived in misery, suffered physical and psychological horrors from working in inhumane conditions, and died in trenches while watching their friends bleed out alongside them And they don't complain. Because when one complains, no one listens. Because no amount of cries is gonna change anything. Because that's life And we built statues of those men Great men who freed slaves and fought for justice Small men who lived their lives helping their community and died protecting others Rich men, poor men, young men, old men... Men who took great risks to do great things But what does this movie tells you? "I wanna be praised for being beautiful, thin and successful, but I don't wanna work for it because it is too hard, so praise me for simply being me" THAT'S the message of the movie And I hate it Because I also want to be praised. I also want to be remembered But I don't wanna be praised for working a 9 to 5 job. Or being an ok-ish mother I would tear down the statue of someone like that

My word, that monologue sounds like the torment of being a people pleaser, rather than the reality of being a woman.

My phone’s battery is dead? Patriarchy.

Not going to lie, I did not see it. It's not really my jam. But I can tell you 💯 that I would happily go the rest of my life without hearing about it again.

6:19 "You have to be a boss but you can't be mean, you have to lead but you can't squash other's ideas." This is such a good showcase of how their brain works. No, you don't have to be mean to be a boss, and a leader is under no obligation to not listen to other's ideas, they're simply the one who decides where to go from here. But in their simple little minds, being a boss means being a prick, and being a leader means you never listen to others. EDIT: And no, unlike what one commenter claimed, this has nothing to do about being *perceived* as any of these things, or they would have written the line as "You have to be a boss but people will call you mean, you have to lead but you'll be told you're squashing other's ideas." No, these people truly believe that to be a leader means to mistreat those lower on the rung than you.

ok but.. ryan gosling singing i'm just ken at the oscars, was the best moment of the night 😍

“…even kings of old would envy us., God, what a brilliant point. We have it SO good and easy now that even the people that ruled the world in the past had it a thousand times worse than us.

I like it. It's the best unintended parody ever. They went so woke they clowned themselves.

It’s so refreshing to hear an intelligent and logical woman expressing an opinion backed up by facts and intelligent arguments. Thank you for the vid!

Almost all of that monologue applies to human beings in general, not only women: - you are smart and beautiful but you don't think you're good enough (applies to everyone, except for narcissists) - we always have to be extraordinary but somehow we're always doing it wrong (yep, applies to all) - you have to be thin, but not too thin, and healthy (for men it's similar, fat men suffer the same, and there's also height, having a full set of hair, be cool but not aggressive but neither be "the good guy", etc) - have to make money but don't ask for money (yes, applies to everyone unless you are a kid) - you have to be a boss but you can't be mean (thank god this is the goal for everyone, barring psychopaths) - you have to lead but you can't squash other people's ideas (this is called being a good boss) - you have to answer for men's bad behavior but if you point that out you're accused of complaining (I fail to find an example that generally applies to all women: in which case, women generally have to answer for men's bad behavior and are accused of complaining if they complian? If you say something and can provide evidence of what you say, people will generally accept what you say) - you're supposed to stay pretty for men (and men for women: check the like-to-match ratio on dating apps which only base liking on appearance. The hottest 10% of guys get 80% of matches, whereas it's reversed for women, which have way way waaaay more chances to match). - never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line (common to all human beings, regardless of their gender) It looks more like a monologue on how hard it is to feel satisfied with yourself in a 1st world economy, woman or not. Other poorer countries may complain how hard it is to speak the truth without being arrested, how hard is to get 2 meals a day, how hard is to find a place to live that you can call your own, how hard is to get medicines, etc.

I can’t get over the fact that in an interview with Margot and the director (look it up, it’s great), Margot straight up answers “did you find the movie to be feminist and empowering?” With something akin to “I mean I feel like it kinda dragged men. It’s like a misogynistic movie, but on men?” All while the director is next to her like 😬 She didn’t know the word misandry, bless her heart, but she knew the concept when she saw it. That’s how blatant it is.

Yep! Also, what's left out is that all of these "standards" are not put on women by men but by OTHER WOMEN. It's not the men en masse. So when women are telling men about this, men are like,"What are you talking about?" It's because these standards are placed by other women. Women need to talk internally about what they want. Men don't care for "perfect" women. Just someone decent looking, works out, nice, cooks, and loyal. All of this work and other stuff is what WOMEN want, not men.

She sounds like s child throwing a tantrum.

What I hated about Barbie is that the whole movie is about how men put down women when in reality NOBODY PUTS DOWN WOMEN MORE THAN OTHER WOMEN, but that's a fact people aren't ready to discuss. That's why I hated that speech by America Ferrera.

Barbie is what happens when the films have been horrific for a while meh looks like an award winner!!

The reason barbie succeeded was because the trailers did not make men look ridiculous or attack people that dont watch the movie before the movie comes out. It had better marketing and PR.

Holy Cow... when i saw it, I literally thought the Barbie Movie was a movie about Covert Narcissism!!! The movie made me uncomfortable because it seemed to not recognize what it was saying. And then i thought i was crazy because NOBODY else was saying it!!! I live by the credo: "The goal should be to destroy the boot of oppression, not simply take a turn wearing it"... Barbie was literally ALL about Boot Transference to assuage and affirm personal ego. That is the most troubling narrative i have seen in a movie in a long time... and what makes it worse is that i am not even sure it was or wasn't intentional. Thank you so much!!! Thank you for saying this!!!

You're right - Barbie is a girly toy, the film if girly, and that's why it did so well. You nailed that it hit its audience, unlike those other "strong female characters". As for the messaging, hrm, again spot on. Nice video.

My wife loves Clueless and often quotes it along with her friends. That’s another generational girly movie.

Me wearing sweatpants, oily hair, and Cheeto stains on my fingers: I feel attacked

"Narcissism packaged as pro mental health", you summed it up perfectly.

A society divided will not stand, which is why this nonsense is pushed so much in entertainment.

It’s funny, that speech 6:29 is basically complaining about something, ALL humans deal with. It’s called balancing your behaviors. Lmfao 😂 it really is just lack of culpability with these people.

Well done, Baggage Claim. I watched Barbie with my daughter and couldn’t for the life of me understand why it was so successful. It was soooo baddddd.

I always hated the Barbie speech.1. Because no individual man wants all of those things of a women. 2. If you say it's society, then you can say the exact same thing about men. "You to have be strong but not too strong. You have to be more open with your emotions, but don't you dare cry when your dog dies [that one really did happen to a RU-vidr] You have to talk & be open but don't complain. You have to be a leader without being a leader. You have to take the responsibility for everything wrong in society but don't talk about any of the good and don't talk about any of the bad women did. You have to not force your girl to not be what you want to be, but you have to encourage her. Got to live off a vegan diet that doesn't due good in giving you a masculine body, yet have to be over 6 feet and have abs. You can't insist on paying for the dinner even though you'll always be paying for the dinner. You can't say you want to protect women, but you better be ready to protect her at all costs. Men are more likely to die on the job, but they won't care, women complain their oppressed but if you voice your opinion your told I shouldn't generalize. Saying #notallmen is bad, but assuming the worst about all women is. You have to make the first move with a girl but if you do, you're a rapist. If you sleep with a consenting woman but YOU WERE BOTH DRUNK or she regrets it later, then you're a rapist but if she sleeps with a teen boy sober, she can sue him. You have to go out and get a job, but don't take the place of a woman who's getting the same job. Got to make a lot of money for her to be interested in you, can't brag or speak about it. Got to vote blue regardless of what I think. You have to pay for her abortion, but if she wants to keep the baby pay child support. If I don't pay child support I look like a bad dad, pay child support and mom still hides and complains to my kids that I'm a bad dad. Got to always be there for my kids but don't overstep. HAVE to support the whole family on my income, but if I work too much, kids will say I love work more than them. And I can go on and on. The difference is you can't make a film where men voice those complaints. And that is just one of many of reasons I didn't like the Barbie film.....sides the fact it wasn't funny, annoying, and kinda boring. But I get why other women like it. Including my sister, who made me see it.

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." -Jung

Billie Ilish being the only winner of the Oscars for Barbie was the equivalent of handing candy to an insufferable child at a dinner table while everyone else eats a substantial and nutritional meal. If Ryan had won, cancel culture would come after the academy with an other “the Oscars are so white” type of muckraking campaign. Likewise, these people are going to bitch and moan about Oppenheimer being a patriarchy coded victory while completely ignoring Jennifer Lame winning best editor for Oppenheimer. Nevertheless, the pendulum is definitely swinging against identity politics thanks to people like Disney and Sweet Baby Inc self snitching.

When she said women have to answer for men's bad behavior, I thought of the women who helped Harvey Weinstein and Ghislain Maxwell.

I liked the ken song so much that I was actually happy that it won an award even if it didn't make any sense.

As a man, I always enjoy your perspective on matters. I find it enlightening and enjoyable. You strike a nice balance. God bless you always. Be blessed to be a blessing. 🙏🏻👍🏻

Pandering is not exclusive to woke storytelling; it's a hallmark of all ideologically lead storytelling.

People underestimate good marketing. This movie was just that. Bright colors, left out the political overtones, tugged on childhood feelings coupled with making moms feel the need to take their daughters to watch the movie at fear of not being a good mom. Bud Light forgot this. BL isn't a good beer. It's cheap and mass produced, but what it had was great marketing (until it didn't). Kinda scary actually. We as a people are extremely easily moved to action over basic marketing principles. Perhaps that says something about our election cycles

Really good breakdown. Men who are happy to revel in criticizing feminism need to be just as ready to analyze men's advocacy for the same message that men no longer need to be held to a standard. It starts with you, and then find someone else who mirrors your values.

I didn’t even read the title… I saw Baggage Claim in my notifications and clicked… love you, love this, please never stop!

Its why legally blonde is still considered iconic. Shes a girly character. I never watched Barbie, but the entire message just seems like middle aged female neurocisism

It was the first female led movie where the female wasn't a pseudo-male. Barbie was bright and pink and really aimed at women.

that speech was basically a long rant about having to be an adult, to show wisdom, and face life alone.

They actually gave women something that, however imperfectly, was a woman IP made for them, not some male IP that had been hammered out of shape thinking it would appeal to them...

Identifying as oppressed or a victim in our culture today gets you special treatment. Therefore, the victim mentality will thrive.

America Ferrera's speech boils down to, "I can't be totally self-absorbed and I sometimes have to face consequences of my actions like literally every person to ever exist. I want to have all the rights and privileges I imagine adult men have while having only the responsibilities of a spoiled child, but I can't because patriarchy."

I don't need to "belong" to a sisterhood or any other group that takes over my representation. I can represent myself just fine and if I need help with something I can't do, I'll ask a male friend for help no problem, and I will be as thankful and as appreciative as I would be to my female friends. This whole ridiculous "war of the sexes" is more akin to those cheap BS , RL shows in the starving world of content. Be serious for god's sakes. I don't accept this movie as feminist, quite the contrary, this is the idea that extreme feminists have of women: always at war with the male sex.

The funniest and saddest part are the interviews with Greta and her husband about taking on this project, that highlight the ridiculousness of her ‘argument’ made in that speech: Her hubby didn’t want to do it all. She accepted the project on behalf of both of them. He tried like hell to get out of it, and she strong armed him into it. It was a little painful to watch. It turns out that that speech was pure gaslighting and as evidenced in how the world saw Ken in this movie, it’s the men who are having their agency removed from them.

I am glad to see this perspective presented by a woman. When we were watching the Oscar's last night (my girlfriend wanted solely to see Ryan Gosling perform, lol) and America Ferrera's nomination came up, strictly for that speech, it made me sick to my stomach. Though my girlfriend loved the Barbie movie, thankfully she took issue with the speech, even though, as you said, she understood/agreed with the frustrations. But the narcissism, hypocrisy, self-victimisation and sheer disregard for the concept of balance and moderation in that speech has always made me revile it. "You have to be a boss but can't be mean" in particular made me raise an eyebrow. For every relatable message in the movie, there's a toxic one accompanying it. And, sadly, the toxic ones (that speech) are the primary things getting agreeable attention. ...and Ryan Gosling's performance, which is well-deserved.

1:04 The part "emotions? This girl eat emotions on the breakfast" just cracked me open 😂😂😂

All I hear in that speech is a bunch of things women push on other women. No man pushes me to have a career instead of a family like women do. No man pushes me to be "skinny but not too skinny" like women do. As far as men are concerned, I've only heard that should be decently pretty, (which really means, clean up a bit, and go to the gym) be nice to them, and if they're my husband, I should probably be available to having their babies, but not be having babies with other men. But if I don't want babies, thats okay, modern men are flexible, just be faithful and take care of them emotionally, like an good relationship. That's like, the caveman brain bar. Beyond that is stuff like, be cool to talk to, don't be too high maintenance, able to take care of things in (pick environment of your choice, but I would go with house, social group, etc) without complaining. Tbh I can't help but gravitate towards things that the dating world asks of women, and maybe that's because I don't have a lot of high density population experience. I havent had a male boss, just male family members, friends, and church leaders. The men who aren't dating me don't ask that much of me, except to hold my own. When I say I'm gonna do something they expect me to do it. And complete important tasks competently. (The more toxic men in my life expect me to 'be more like a man' Henry Higgins style, which might include being stronger than I am in order to move something in the garage I have NO business trying to carry, cuz I will legit break my tiny waist 😢 that's not a joke, I gave myself a herniated disk trying to keep up with my male neighbor, he was SIXTY and did just fine 😂) Sometimes, I'm asked to lend an ear when they want to chat, with my friends, I'm asked to support them through hard things, and, sometimes I'm asked to teach them things, like SOCIAL CUES, and ART 😊 And a lot of the times I'm asked to spend time with their own wives because keeping their wives happy is actually a high priority 😂 and men know that women can take care of women (or at least that's what we're supposed to do). And babysitting kids, but thats usually what the wives need too. The things I get FROM men on the regular in my community far outweigh the things they ask me for. I haven't had to shovel my own driveway in years! Sometimes it actually gets annoying how much they DON'T ask from me. Is that why feminists ask so much of themselves? Because the men aren't telling them what to do at all? So they had to come up with instructions and women are so woshy washy that they can't stick to one thing? Also, they care too much about the opinions of others, so when WOMEN start making lists of what other women should do, all the women actually TRY to take on all the advice and end up not sure what to do? Honestly, this does sound like my own experience. I'm horrible about making decisions. Anyway, just from my observations, in my own part of the US, the speech from Barbie is a list of complaints that can't be leveled at the patriarchy, but at 1) women making up standards for themselves, good or bad, but because it's not a monolith, there's different standards to meet across the board 2) Ourselves, for trying to take random conflicting advice from strangers in a monolith as if that advice/expectation should matter to us at all. I do like your points about balance. I think that's the truth of it. It's funny though that in all that list of expectation, none of these women ever heard the advice to "be balanced in all things" or "be true to yourself" which are the kinds of advice you might hear from old, classic, timeless literature, the Bible, and Shakespeare. 😅 Women hear advice from SOCIAL MEDIA, posts made by 12 year olds, or angry women who dont have their lives together, and think its the end all be all standard for women, when we actually DO have great minds to look at that paint a picture of how to live a peaceful fulfilling life. Unfortunately....those minds come out of the patriarchy. So we will just skip...those..(nevermind the millions of women who agree with those tenets of course)

9:35 I actually got in an argument recently about victim blaming with my professor who was also a police officer once. She had given us a scenario where a female goes for a run at 2:00 a.m. in the morning then gets sexually assaulted. I said that there is consequences to our actions and people need to know that. It's awesome to hear you say that as well. But she couldn't wrap her head around that I wasn't taking away from the crime the person committed.

They'll claim how Barbie is not anti-men but is actually anti-patriarchy but "coincidentally" exclude how women play a role in reinforcing and contributing to the "patriarchy" but still maintain how they want to dismantle that said patriarchy...the hypocrisy.

We are quite literally the most spoiled human beings EVER...

Have you noticed that Ken could not get a job in the real world because he didnt had qualifications, yet the weird barbie got a job in the barbie government as an appology from the president barbie. Also weird barbie makes sexual comments about Kens body to Barbie when they meet. But yeah - the toxic culture of patriarchy.😂

Being a doctor means you're expected to make a lot of money but also not charge too much for your service and also devote much of your time to the poor who can't pay you at all, and if you ask the government to foot the bill for that, politicians will blame you for the health care crisis they created, oh and by the way there's an entire industry made up of lawyers combing through your work trying to find a single misstep that they can exaggerate in order to extract millions of dollars from your practice, which you don't have so you have to pay thousands of dollars to insurance companies who then tell you the policy you purchased doesn't cover the situation you are being sued for... It's literally impossible to be a doctor.

Critical Drinker explained why it was so successful. It was a girl IP, something familiar to most women, with an unapologetically feminist message. Like Top Gun Maverick, it knew what it wanted to be and knew it's audience. Yes it was hateful and divisive - it's basically live-action 'Velma' with better acting and budget - but it knew how to appeal to it's very wide female audience. Plus, genius marketing in that trailers revealed absolutely nothing about the movie, so nobody knew about 'The Message' until it was in cinemas.

America Ferrera's speech was hard to listen to because of her annoying vocal fry.

So, Michael Knowles was right, it is kind of anti-feminist.

Thank you!! You've finally put into words what I disliked about this movie and the "speech" so much. It was such a juvinile, simplistic speech and I felt like I was taking crazy pills when I wasn't swept into Barbie-mania as a woman and didn't find anything fun about the movie.

I'm pretty sure most of what America Ferrera is frustrated with is the rules other women put on women

I haven’t seen the Barbie movie, but just listening to the segments of the America Ferrera monologue that you included, I feel like those complaints that she’s lodging can be said about men as well. They feel just as much pressure to be balanced too: the be strong but not be cruel, the be healthy and good looking but not too much (because there is a brotherhood as well, and men get jealous too), and in this day and age, they are expected to learn how to take care of their children and share responsibilities with their wife. So America is essentially complaining about the HUMAN existence, not so much women specifically. We should all strive to balanced people! But I did laugh out loud when she said, “it’s literally impossible” to be a woman! Girl, I’ve been a woman my whole life and I’m enjoying it very much (except for the menstrual cramps!) 😂

I always think, when Im old if someone asks me what is the key to happiness in a single word I would most certainty say BALANCE, period.

Barbie is one the worst things made for a female audience. I personally refuse to teach my daughters to view their female identity as a handicap or something to overcome. Instead of celebrating what makes women special they taught its audience that being a woman is something to overcome. It was a gross experience watching this movie. Also in regards to that “monologue” I regarded it as nothing more than a pity party. Do the people who made this film don’t think men have polarity in their existence as well? Men are expected to be strong except when they make women feel less than. They’re expected to combat toxic masculinity but don’t be too vulnerable or you’re a simp. They’re expected to make a certain amount of money to attract women but they can’t have standards of their own or they’re toxic. Each gender has its toxic expectations that as Baggage Claim says we have to find balance. The truth like most things lie somewhere in the middle. Barbie is the equivalent to red pill podcasts in my opinion. Simply using the lowest common denominator of blaming the other gender for all their problems. I love the irony that now “Kenough” is getting more attention than Barbie. It is the best ending to this toxic saga of Barbie

The fact that Baggage could find an EXACT reference frame for every female negative stereotype she mentioned is hilarious!!! Most coming from Marvel!!! Great work.. as always.. stellar production value and quality!

Barbie succeeded because it played both sides. It mixed woke and conservative stances in a way that people from both extremes screeched at each other based on their biased view and by extend, nobody knew if they had to hate or love the movie based on ideological positioning. In fact, it is a prime example for wokeness being able to be sufccessful... if attached like a leech on top of a host that wouldn't need it.

They never mention that all of the things women apparently 'have to do' are the exact same things men have to do. Even working on how you look is literally just something men have to do too if they want to be successful or get women. Basically they're whining about having to be decent human beings.

I feel like given the whole scene with ‘I’m just Ken’, they should have made the film a satire about modern feminism

I didn’t like the movie I thought it shat on men it was trying to empower women by insulting men yeah that’s how empowering should work right greta? Degrading the opposite gender the one thing you were trying to prove men do by doing it in your own movie. Also the car chase scene was clearly a ad for that car they were driving. The only good parts of the movies were Ken ironically

This movie was so successful despite the fact that it was Nightmare fuel

If there's anyone deserving of a "Yaaassss, Queen!", it's you, Baggage Claim! 😍🥰🤩 Thank you for this intelligent, witty, profound, and in-depth analysis of this whole Barbie phenomenon. 💜

The most spectacular own goal ever. The fact that Gerwig showed up her own side is probably part of the success

I would disagree that this movie is Woke. It is without doubt feminist. Feminism is part of THE MESSAGE but this movie doesn’t seem to have the anti-white and pro-LGBT+. It might have a message but is uses a story to express it themes. That is not to say agree with a message.

Baggage claim: *Speaks truthfully and honestly* Thor: "I like this one."

Amen. I recommend a book called “Don’t You Know Who I Am” by Ramani Durvasali. It’s about narcissism and how our culture, particularly media, is pushing people to be more narcissistic.

God good I hated America's speech. It made me roll my eyes back so hard. One of the most cringiest things I'd ever seen. The utter victimhood made my skin crawl. I don't get how anyone thought it was good and resonated with them. I guess they just love being victims.

Yeeeeeessss!! 😩 Oh my gosh, finally! I've been waiting to hear your take on this all this time, because I _legit_ feel like I've taken crazy pills whenever I see comments praising this movie and this speech in particular. Heck, even my mom agreed with it! I showed her the short clip on RU-vid, and she was like, "yeah, sounds about right." And I literally had to go point by point with her to explain how it was totally off base in just about every way! She eventually agreed with me on some things, but gosh, it was difficult. 😩 And it's funny, because she's supposedly against woke stuff, yet still watches woke movies and didn't recognize the speech itself as woke. 🤦‍♀️ Gosh, I can't tell you how much it feels like a breath of fresh air to hear another woman say the thoughts in my head about that stupid speech! Please, keep doing what you're doing, we need more women like you who fight for both men and women and want to see both be better!

It's called *balance.* I love that. Where were you when this movie came out? Really dismantles that whole speech, which I'm surprised "professional" critics couldn't even realize. And this writing went on to get awards nominations, because the people Barbie is pandering to, are running the industry now. "Pity Me, but also, Bow Down to Me" is kind a genius summation of what Barbie was saying as a film. What an essay. A+

Love it or hate it, the ultimate girly film it is. This is the film for girls of all ages, & not the unbelievable, poorly written, poorly scripted, cardboard "Stong female characters" that Disney thinks all Star Wars & Marvel fans want to see.

But the best part is that the film actually debunks the notion of a patriarchy. Ken goes through this new world with the expectation of having things given to him because he's a man but he learns very quickly that he actually needs to work for the things other men have. What's wonderful is that the director has made public statements saying it wasn't a parody, which makes the unintentional satire of the film all the more wonderful!

Barbie killed at the theatre and in people's hearts because it was incredibly anti-woke, in a real and revealing way.

I think the reason the movie works is because it shows both extreme sides of a patriarchy and a matriarchy, yet Barbie recognizes the struggles of both genders, but then decides to approach them with empathy and balance. She knows that both sides are complaining and hurting but manages to reconcile them both while being balanced herself. She doesn't end up putting down Ken's empire to then replace it with the matriarchy order again and her becoming the president of barbieland. She instead empathized with Ken, recognized the difficulties of his gender and his situation, then helped him to be "kenough" She is both an influential leader by the end of the movie, yet decides to stay "girly" and actually pursue being a mother. That is what woke culture should be, about balance. Both sides are too polarized and are childish in their notion of just forcing the other side to comply with their own self-centered view without enough empathy for others and compromise.

Remember Legally Blonde? Elle was stereotyped because of her affectation and because she had never really challenged herself. When she decided to commit her energy to taking on a more serious role in life she did it, and she did it her way. Were there challenges and naysayers? Sure! But what was more important was her self belief and the support of her loved ones. Not everyone needs to be looking out for you and making life easier, it's not realistic. You can and should find people who understand and edify you when you are on the right path. I wish we could just get real!

Wow. This is really insightful and well done. Subscribed.

I actually liked the movie. The one part I thought was bad was the huge woe is me monologue that went about 30-45 seconds too long. Otherwise i thought it was actually much more even handed than i expected. The biggest flaw imo, outside of the monologue, is that it doesn't bring up the motherhood aspect except very subtly.

Sad - think how bad it's going to be in 10 years from now 😖

As a female who was wholly looking forward to indulging in something unapologetically girly and campy, I was so ready to love this movie. I couldn't stand it. I hated it for the twisted nonsensical message that was framed as positive and progressive. It was so meaningless, and it ended with the Barbies actually being antithetical to what they were posturing about when the Kens took over? So it's okay to be an oppressive assh*le as long as you're Barbie? And there were so many aborted and half-baked concepts that were just left there incomplete. Barbie's abandoned character arc, that bizarre ending that doesn't tie into any of the themes besides paying lip service to the brand, the lamp shading of the Kens as second class citizens. The human characters were also awful, they were so obviously following a Hollywood template for the relatable audience self-insert but not written to be cohesive to the story. It's frustrating how much the mainstream is praising this as good art despite how obviously cynical it is because they're pushing it as feminist.