re: How many of you are sending your kids to see Brainwash Barbie?

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I hear a lot of people are leaving during the middle of the movie

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Men

bingo.

thank God for our enlightened betters

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I hear a lot of people are leaving during the middle of the movie

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That's right about the point where the ken's "take over" aka fill bog standard male gender roles and the mom has a 3rd wave feminism rant on how men don't face adversity and it's only women who face problems in the real world.

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And you’re here every frickin day to argue with them

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I’ve mostly given arguing on here up, but I’m sure I will get sucked in occasionally.

Mike, I wish you were more Christ-like

I never thought I would long for the days of Mike's long rants about chain restaurants

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My guy, you a grown man melting over a Barbie movie…reevaluate yourself

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To be fair, if I had daughters, they wouldn't touch this propagandist hateful piece of shite until they're 18 and can make legal, adult judgements.

It's one of the most hateful films i've seen all year.


Barbieland was run as a dictatorship that it actively mocked in its theme, treating Kens as second-class citizens that they threw to the wayside of their utopia and never gave any meaningful relationships or roles to - they were designed to just stay on the beach and vie for attention of the Barbies, never discouraged from fighting each other. Ken leaves Barbieland, learns of patriarchy, comes back, and develops Kendom/land by explaining to everyone what he discovered in the real word, and then both Barbies and Kens are content, the Kens become cultured and no longer squabble over Barbies, and the Barbies enjoy their lives as domestic partners with their Kens.
And the solution that the rebel Barbies come up with to fix everything is to become, ostensibly, the CIA, then rig the election by rebrainwashing the barbies that they're actually not happy, have the Kens engage in a civil war, and then have them go back to implicitly being subservient human beings.
Ken did nothing wrong. They tried so hard to make him the archetype of "Nice Guy neckbeard" that they never stopped to figure out the ethics of the means they were having Barbie go to in order restore her utopia.

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Barbieland was run as a dictatorship that it actively mocked in its theme, treating Kens as second-class citizens that they threw to the wayside of their utopia and never gave any meaningful relationships or roles to - they were designed to just stay on the beach and vie for attention of the Barbies, never discouraged from fighting each other. Ken leaves Barbieland, learns of patriarchy, comes back, and develops Kendom/land by explaining to everyone what he discovered in the real word, and then both Barbies and Kens are content, the Kens become cultured and no longer squabble over Barbies, and the Barbies enjoy their lives as domestic partners with their Kens.
And the solution that the rebel Barbies come up with to fix everything is to become, ostensibly, the CIA, then rig the election by rebrainwashing the barbies that they're actually not happy, have the Kens engage in a civil war, and then have them go back to implicitly being subservient human beings.
Ken did nothing wrong. They tried so hard to make him the archetype of "Nice Guy neckbeard" that they never stopped to figure out the ethics of the means they were having Barbie go to in order restore her utopia.

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This movie sounds cool as hell.

I went to see it. I had a top-tier fit.