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Shailee Koranne's avatar

I was WAITINGGG for this. You said it all, especially towards the end - you can like the movie while still recognizing its limitations, with the blatant white feminist and consumerist messaging. I will also add that I found the movie to be pretty tokenizing. How does a movie so diverse end up feeling so white? Like... why does Stereotypical Barbie freak out about cellulite if fat Barbies fully exist in Barbieland lmao?? All the diversity felt like an afterthought.

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Zainab Abdulai's avatar

You're so right. I also don't think the movie's comparison of "Kens are to Barbieland what women are in the real world" really holds up beyond a surface comparison. And while the theme of how fast misogyny can spread is true, the reason is not exactly reflective of men's actual relationship with the patriarchy at all, it felt too much like the vube of the "masculinity crisis" panic. Also the big monologue feels to me a bit too much like "we teach girls to shrink themselves..."

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