Barbie is TOXIC for women
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Was Barbie actually pro-women? It was intended to uplift women everywhere, but its actual messaging is much worse than you think.
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''it's literally impossible to be a woman.'' I don't burst into laughter very often with movies but that those few seconds of that scene got it done. Simple Jack would be p-p-p-p-proud of such a profound exercise in going full retard. And you know that shit was written by a white, middle -upper class woman somewhere in the age range of 20 -35. Probably with a salary that exceeds mine by multitudes. Literally the deepest literal literallisies fully of literal sympathies that she must be going through. literally.
Posting this here because is getting deleted: 9:17 That's because most of today's women don't like showing appreciation for what men do for them because it requires them to admit that what they want and when they want it may not be what the men wants. Which will make them realize that it means that when a men does what he's asked to do, he's doing it for her/them, not because it's something he "knows" he's "supposed to do" and get done. Because that would mean they have to show appreciation for the things a men has chosen to do for them because he/they want to do it for her/them and not because of some overarching obligation like most women expect and want a men to do. Which aggravates them since it would mean no longer having to go on easy mode and having to just wait for things to be done for them and actively be conscious of their hard work and do and give something in return; and that very idea, of being the ones to provide or give something in return to a men goes against their entitlement and narcissism.
This too: 10:06 The whole idea of a "patriarchy" or that society favors one gender over another is entirely based on a superficial analysis, they see that the mayority of people working and specifically in "positions of power and influence" are men and immediately assume that they got to said position because it was given to them simoly because of being male. They jump to that conclusion because a) as women they have, by nature, a superficial way of analysing things. They only analyze the here and now surface of the situation. This is because their minds are naturaly wired to see the superficial traits and actions of their babies since they are a clear sign of the babies mental and physical state. If the baby is well then he/she will act well; if something is wrong the baby will act like something is wrong. Normally women will grow their analytical capabilities and open their minds to a less superficial analysis as they grow up. But because the centralized control education system keeps people's mind in a child/teenage state and society itself panders to the females to the point that they subconsciously think they don't need to grow and develop, the women's mind doesn't move/grow away from this type of thinking. Therefore they bring that type of analysis to adult/more complex scenarios. And b) they're mostly projecting they're own desires and experiences into the experience if men. They think men get some type of special treatment because they've being given special treatment since birth for being women and because they desire to have all the perks and privilege that they believe high value guys have through there "privilege" and ignore all evidence that they got were their are through hard work and skills and that said positions are mostly filled by men because thise are the types if jobs that are mostly sought out by men. Also keep in mind that they are not complaining about some people being able to have power or special treatment over others, they're complaining that a specific group has more "power" or "privilege" than another specific group, not the power and privilege themselves. This is because they don't want to get rid of this "special privileges", they want to be the ones benefiting from them while someone else isn't. It would be like someone in colonial times fighting slavery, not to ended but to be have the slavers and slaves change places. There would still be slavery but the faces of the slavers and slaves would change. That's what this low tier marxist want.
Still waiting for the "I need an Australian husband" Miss Claim! Hey, it's not my fault you're kinda gorgeous. And smart. And well spoken. Did I say gorgeous yet?
One thing I find is missing in many of the evaluations of "the monologue" is that many of things she says also apply to men and many others have a male version. Men just rarely complain. Lastly, a good portion of what she is complaining about comes from women... today's feminist women. "...and no one gives you a medal or says, 'thank you.'" Yeah, welcome to the life of most men. In fact, in the past three decades, instead of a 'thank you' you are more likely to get berated for your benevolent sexism. Life isn't fair. For anyone. Apparently, that fact is just worse for women.
Still disappointed they went the Barbie vs Ken route instead of making them a mutually supportive power couple
This is what my friends and I were talking about, too! Like, current Hollywood hates supportive men and women for some reasons. I would've loved to see Barbie and Ken becoming allies and making a new home which would be a home to both Barbies AND Kens. But no, they just went back to the first point. They really want to make women vs men instead of women and men vs life.
Men and woman supporting each other has no use for Hollywood and their overlords.
Same…
Why? Barbie didn't want to be with Ken, there is nothing wrong with that.
When you go woke too much you will go broke. Let us be honest being woke doesn't mean that the film must be inherently bad on a technical level concerning acting, the dialogue etc. It just happens to be that most themes don't resonate with people and that the attitude message over quality usually drags those movies down. You could call Philadelphia where Tom Hanks plays a gay guy with AIDS woke but everybody loved it because it was a pressing issue at the time and it never alienated people by outright being preachy or calling them implicitly bigots. Yes wokeness is horrible but even a woke movie can be good at times as long as it doesn't lean to heavily into it. It is only ONE of the ingredients why you might fail. In the case of Barbie I think its success is because it came at a time where the relation bewteen sexes is a difficult one and it provided an easy answer. We know that women regard themselves much more as a group as a whole in comparison to men. An attack on a woman will always be perceived as an attack on women in general which isn't the case with men. Providing them with an easy formula to justify that victim mentality is what a lot of women wanted to hear. In times where there are a lot of single mothers it is easier to look for causes that aren't your responsibility. I think women like to hear that they are being heard and understood. A reason why many couples break up is a lack of communication and oftentimes the feeling of not being heard. A movie who tells you that your feelings are valid and that it is entirely men's fault is just the most comforting option.
Ken was actually responsible for 50% of barbie's success.
sexy gosling being vulnerable and showing that masculinity is vulnerability and self respect is lovely
@@magnushinge2358lmfao
You went to see that movie for Ken?
@@TheVetoSkreeemerI saw it for free but yes for Ken.
He's just so relatable and also funny!!! kzhead.info/sun/pZaBZNSChqagkoU/bejne.html
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!
you also have to walk sometimes but if you do it to much you'll get leg cramps. it's just impossible to human 🤷♂
Hahaha. Perfect.
Play Helldivers 2 when you want to earn some medals. 😊
Brave👏👏👏
every time after wiping myself noone ia standing there with a medal 😞 why even bother then
"False body expectations for women" Shows multiple sized barbies but every single ken has to be ripped
Cus Barbie is about Barbie. There more diverse Barbie dolls cus the girls are playing with diverse BARBIES while many girls don’t even have Ken’s
@@AUGHHHHHBBG 98 comments. Get a life
@@RotternEngel I have a life I just have free time
@AUGHHHHHBBG Flip the genders of what you said and see if you still agree.
I didnt see any Fat Kens
"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.
She’s so brave 🥹
@@BaggageClaimyou forgot stunning. Stunning and brave. I’m a woman too where’s my medal! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have been a woman for the last 37 years! Give me a prize please! 😅
Ha! My grand mother was a widow in the 1940s and managed to be a cattle rancher and a land owner who leased it to cotton growers…. Also my Mother ran her own business while the country was going up in flames during The Cold War…. This monologue is laughable…..
Bruce Jenner was a "woman" for less than a year before "she" got a medal for it, same with Lia Thomas.
Ferrara getting an oscar nom just because of that speech shows how pointless the oscars are
For sure, that speech was so weak.
the irony is as a woman I related more with Ken than Barbie haha
Right? Ken was the ONLY character that actually had a decent character arc, which is why he's way more relatable even if you are a woman
Okay pick me
@@romanticblossom speak for yourself
yes... a woman relating to Ken was the whole point... of the movie. Ken represents women
that was the point of the movie, the gender roles were reversed so guys can see from ken's pov how it has been for woman in the past and even now. But instead people have total missed the point and thought Barbie was shitting on men.
“Life is hard and nobody gives me a medal for it.” This is exclusive to women..? 🤔
They BELIEVE it is. Because they're delusional.
The only times you get a medal as a man is if you sacrifice your life for someone or get wounded in battle. Ladies, step right up and earn your medals.
@@Laneous14 never heard of sports?
@@Laneous14 Lol. Sports, competitions, you name it, medals everywhere. As for dying in the line of duty, there's this thing called childbirth that up until about 1960 had an extremely high mortality rate for both mother and babe. Imagine if you risked dying because you slept with someone... that's why it's called falling pregnant or falling ill, because chances were that you wouldn't get up. Even today pregnancy changes everything about a woman's life. Maybe a little gratitude, or even recognition, from men wouod go a long way towards women feeling valued for sacrificing their bodies for your existence and well being...
Pretty much
America Ferrera: “You have to…” Any rational viewer: “Who says you have to?”
mainly other women lol
No one is putting a gun in your head to do and be the things she mentioned during her (terrible) monologue
Technically its still kinda applies to women in developing countries or some specific developed countries like look at the middle east going crazy over women choosing not to wear hijabs or people saying Saudi Arabia is corrupting women for choosing to issues licence for women to drive a fr**king car so I can understand women from those countries relating to it but how is 1st world country women getting oppressed
Female intersexual competition tells them they have to. Men compete to find who's the best of the best, women compete to find who stands out, then knock them down.
Usually other women.
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.
Dafuq is tumblr? 😅
Haha, yeah. It's probably going to be the 2.0 version of the 'Cool Girl' monologue from Gone Girl, except that one had context.
Yep. It felt like a Tumblr feminist post that you'd see reposted all the time back then.
@@LuisCasstle Twitter before Twitter basically.
@LuisCasstle A blog website that became well-known for being very politically left leaning to a ridiculous degree. When the blog got rid of its nsfw material, a lot of users fled to Twitter and made it awful.
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
Oh… Boo Rewatch that scene please
@@AUGHHHHHBBGI rewatched it and I agree with them. Boohoo.
@@xxxmaysilssss690 let me correct myself Rewatch the movie and take away every single bias you have before hand. Take out your political stand point, others reviews,etc out your mind and focus on the movie and watch the entire thing.
@@AUGHHHHHBBG I did. And I still found it terrible. And if I have to empty my mind to watch a movie, chances are it’s for kids. That just makes the Barbie movie sound worse since you have to numb yourself before sitting to watch it according to you
@@xxxmaysilssss690That guy is acting like it's some masterpiece akin to The Shining. Even monkeys would understand this dumb movie.
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.
And at the end still enjoys her femininity and that does not compete with her intelligence.
Yep, that was truly an inspiring movie.
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.
That’s what I’m saying. They refuse to have any accountability anymore.
Whenever Feminists mention the word Patriarchy, they're not talking about actual patriarchy. They're talking about androcentrism. Patriarchy and androcentrism are diametrically opposed to each other. But, Feminists have done a fantastic job of turning patriarchy (competent, consistent, and stable fathers who lead their households well) into androcentrism.
@@JamesASharp Androcentrism, that’s a new terminology to me. Thank you, now I have something to look up and get possibly more clarity than before. Edit: Oh yeah. You are 100% on the money. Now that I know the term, yep. It fits.
Patriarchy isn’t policed by men it’s protected and upheld by men
Most women are children: They take little to no accountability for anything and can't take constructive criticism.
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.
Someone brought up this question: "Where do the Kens live?" 👀
I don't know. It sounds like Ryan Gosling deserved the nod to me. He made a character that was supposed to be hated relatable and sympathetic. Sounds like a pretty good display of acting talent.
@@darrekworkman5595 The Sympathetic Strawman. Ryan totally deserved the nod.
It will be used in decades to come as an indicator of the power of social contagion in the early social media age.
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?
I mean Yes victim hood drive sense of empowerment.by the it is just not female it is just same male sphere. They cry about and claim every woman is sleeping top 20% of etc etc which is not true in mostly historically most men died virgin because of forced polygamy but today most men are not even trying.
I mean her whole character is a mess. She started playing with dolls to cope with her straind relationship with her daughter. They didn't need a Barbie, they needed a psychiatrist
"can't handle life" if your fine with all these crazy standards have fun... I know your therapist love you
@@AUGHHHHHBBG seems like you're the one who needs a therapist since apparently life is so difficult for you.
@@Parcha64 say u have mommy issues 💀
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.
The difference is that real men are aware of the difficulties of being a decent man, and they don’t complain about it but just try their best. Real men are a dying breed, get yours while you can.
ryan gosling winning the awards instead of the desperate margot and gurwig was poetic
Nope. Regrettably, Gretta won a couple of awards. Same for Margot. Maybe not the Oscars, but, enough kiss ass accolades to massage their egos. Alternatively, the costume and set designers won some awards that were very much deserved.
And he also got to preform the showcase song on the show.
Poetic.. great word... JUST is another one.. but Poetic.. is perfect :) Just goes to show.. we do have some insiders in the industry that are also tired of woke horse shit.
They weren't desperate, their fans were. And those were not the best film of those women.
Margot and Gretta are still technically nominated in other categories such as Best Picture and Best Screenplay since their names are under it. Just not in certain categories everyone wants them to be in
My phone’s battery is dead? Patriarchy.
Can’t find the charger? Patriarchy.
A woman was mean to another woman? Patriarchy
No Sane man wants to date me? Patriarchy.
I bit my nail too hard and my finger hurts. Patriarchy.
I have to take the rubbish out. Patriarchy.
The Princess Bride was definitely a better movie. 💕
Mean girls, dirty dancing, pride and prejudice… so many classics women love that didnt have to rely on blaming everything on patriarchy
Wait, Barbie is a movie?
One of the GOATs.
And will be remembered and enjoyed far longer than Barbie
ok but.. ryan gosling singing i'm just ken at the oscars, was the best moment of the night 😍
💔 he’s Kenough
She sounds like s child throwing a tantrum.
Exactly
She is
"You have to answer for men's bad behaviour wHiCh iS INSANE" 🤪
She is
Barbie or the narrator?
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.
Ohh, I definitely concur on both!
My wife made me watch it as an assignment. After I watched it, I never felt more attacked in my life.
@@Blue10Blue10go I agree. It’s not a movie, it’s an assignment. It’s not entertainment with a good story with good characters
Same.
My wife tried to make me watch it and I fell asleep.
My word, that monologue sounds like the torment of being a people pleaser, rather than the reality of being a woman.
7:04 We shouldn't push motherhood and traditionality onto women who dont want it.
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.
It's a clever writing trick actually. By framing the two sides as opposite of one another in the monologue "you have to do X but also Y" it tricks your brain into thinking they must be mutually exclusive and thus impossible to accomplish both, but as the video points out. "Being a boss" and "not being mean" are not mutually exclusive concepts nor should they be. In fact you should NOT be mean if you are a boss. You'd be a bad boss. It's both clever writing AND bad writing at the same time. (See, not mutually exclusive 🙃)
She is not stating facts, she is complaining how society including women think of other women.
It's scarily revealing...
I know... That part blows me away because a GOOD leader, a GOOD boss, man or women, doesn't act like that anyway. WTF do these people think good leadership looks like?!
…then learn to be a better boss, so you don’t lead like a jerk? 😅 one could give a three-hour lecture unpacking that monologue.
My wife loves Clueless and often quotes it along with her friends. That’s another generational girly movie.
It’s a classic. I saw hidden the depth of prime vault and I was like ‘I have to watch this with my girls!” Such a classic
Also another propaganda movie.
I can't see Barbie being the same. Only thing people seem to remember is the Kenough stuff.
@@GrasslanderWhat does it propagate?
I’m a man and I love Clueless. I don’t think it’s propaganda at all.
I like it. It's the best unintended parody ever. They went so woke they clowned themselves.
But it's 100% intended parody! It's so clearly intended, why do so many people not see it? :)
@@paprikapringless9526 uhmm cuz the dang director said otherwise lmao
Greta Gerwig didn't seem to understand her own movie in interviews, so Barbie unintentionally being a parody might well be a possibility. It also was marketed as a "made for women, by women" movie, so the marketing was spot on, but personally I think the "Barbenheimer" hype had a large influence on the success. Many couples seemed to go for watching both movies to experiencing the hype.
No they didn't. It's propaganda that works. All that "get woke go broke" talk is just a fantasy, and an excuse to avoid getting organized and taking action. The movie made 1.4 billion and you claim they "clowned themselves". Ridiculous.
I rember thinking "this must be a joke" at the end of the film. Barbie didn't enjoy it when the world was run by Kens, and then when the Barbies got back into power and Ken was like "can we have a say too?", Barbie said "no". For most of the film, I thought the message was supposed to be "we think its tough being a woman in a patriarchal society, that needs to change", but then at the end they essentially said "its tough being a man in a matriachal society, but shut up Ken, deal with it".
"Narcissism packaged as pro mental health", you summed it up perfectly.
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.
You nailed it. Thought the same thing as I watched the monologue. What you wrote is the ultimately salient counter argument. The insidious issue it points out is just how unaware many women are that this is true. Cognitively it points to the ugly truth that many women don't see men, or their struggles, at all. It's like men don't exist in their model of reality. Half the population is essentially erased from existence.
All of these things are entry level issues for any adult in the Western world except for the leadership one - that's entry level for new managers. Is this supposed to show you how much harder it is to be a woman?
The hardest part of that monologue for women is trying to accomplish it while being women...
The boss one stuck out for me. It's a common feminist belief that being a strong leader requires an iron fist. Most female bosses tend to be 'bossy' and angry. Being kind and gentle is seen as weak. But that's also true for men.
That'd be great if the movie didn't act like these were only female problems.
Barbie is what happens when the films have been horrific for a while meh looks like an award winner!!
Mediocre is the new normal
except that barbie isn't meh, its one of the worst movies ever made
@@spideronawhiteflag Ryan Gosling, from what I heard, gave a good performance.
You are very right. I was just watching the old Flinestones movie from the 90’s and that movie would never be made today. The set was fun, silly, and creative, not a green screen in sight. This old mediocre kids movie was refreshing to watch.
@@ariesgirlkara2603 💯💯
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.
Men also put down woman Woman also put down woman
Most hatred of women I see online is by other men. To say ‘nobody puts women down more than other women’ is unproven. I’m not saying women don’t do it, but that both men and women definitely do, do it.
@@ZeldasMask exactly
@@ZeldasMask I think the problem with the movie is that it doesn't show anything realistically, it shows the "real world" as if it's the red pill subreddit. Shows that the people who wrote it live on Twitter and in their bubble.
@@lukeshioshio Barbie is female version of Red pill. Exactly 😂
A society divided will not stand, which is why this nonsense is pushed so much in entertainment.
Exactly
Abraham Lincoln would appove
Hear!! Hear!! Divide and conquer! You hit the nail on the head! 👏
*Like all great and powerful empires.. Hollywood will fall.. It's only a matter of time..*
i honestly thought that was going to be the message at the end of Barbie, the government in Barbie Land being split between Barbies and Kens... but no... whamen still boss babes, let's throws the kens a small bone... it was so annoying
“…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.
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.
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!
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!!!
Same experience here btw, the movie is disturbing
Barbie was so woke it was based... The Barbies live in a feminist fantasy where all the jobs done by men don't need to be done (farming, infrastructure, etc.). Then Barbie and Ken go to the real world which is a comic stereotype of the patriarchy, and Ken finds fulfilment and purpose there. Then he brings it back to Barbieland and everyone is happy, but then Barbie and the feminists destroy it by brainwashing women, and in the end Barbie effs-off for the patriarchal real world anyway. All based on a character that feminists hated up till when the movie came out. Did the Daily Wire write this?!
Now this is a better point. Well stated :)
Exactly.. I also felt the same. They took the baton from men thats all
@@CoryTheRaven I found the same sort of thing watching She Hulk. They are so feminist they make the antifeminist argument better than the actual people who are trying to speak out against the excesses of feminism.
that speech was basically a long rant about having to be an adult, to show wisdom, and face life alone.
Yep
"having to be an adult" being an adult is having toxic beauty standard that have caused people eating disorders? Shut up
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.
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." -Jung
Me wearing sweatpants, oily hair, and Cheeto stains on my fingers: I feel attacked
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.
Bad is subjective
@@jeffersonhassan4558 that's true. Personally, I thought it was a bad movie. Obviously many people don't agree.
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
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nah fam it's just about the fact that we shouldn't judge others, they don't wanna be praised for being thin or successful or beautiful they just don't want to be judged for not being those things. The message for men is also that we are allowed to be vulnerable and we shouldn't have to live up to the ideals of others, or be strung along, self love and self esteem is important and to be empathetic to others even more so
🎉 Thankyou! say it louder
I hated the movie’s monologue and that it was said again but in a more condensed version when the Barbies had to be deprogrammed
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.
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."
yikes were your listening comprehension that bad or were all your empathy skills nuked by the internet?
@@babs_babswhats to have empathy for? Shes complaining about basic problems everyone ha
@@Fauwkes no she’s talking about double standards women deal with. men don’t have the same problems
@@babs_babs they dont have to deal with double standards. They benefit from them
@@babs_babs but shes doesnt describe double standards.
I didn’t even read the title… I saw Baggage Claim in my notifications and clicked… love you, love this, please never stop!
Basically this! My only complaint about BC videos is they are too short and leave me wanting more.
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. 🙏🏻👍🏻
When she said women have to answer for men's bad behavior, I thought of the women who helped Harvey Weinstein and Ghislain Maxwell.
women perpetuate patriarchy too through internalized misogyny. that's just basic feminism. read a book.
No, women who helped weinsteins of this world are given influential positions (i.e. movie director's roles) now.
We are quite literally the most spoiled human beings EVER...
Many disagree with you.
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.
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 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 KZheadr] 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.
Exactly thanks i am taking your comments for further use
@@alexryan43244 the standards you named for men are pushed by other men. Most standards for women are pushed by men.
@@AUGHHHHHBBG”most standards of women are pushed by men”…are you trolling? Bc this is one of the most genuinely retarded claims I have come across on KZhead comments…at least for this week. 🤦🏻♀️
@@AUGHHHHHBBGno, the vast majority of standards for women are pushed by other women while men mostly wouldn't actually give a shit.
LOL. Women are the ones who will pressure other women to look and act a certain way. Haven't you read women's magazines? It's full of articles trying to tell women how to act and feel. While full of advertisements that set Beauty standards that can't be met by most women
1:04 The part "emotions? This girl eat emotions on the breakfast" just cracked me open 😂😂😂
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.
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That's 2 words.
its the one in caps, dear @@rodiusmaximus
@@lazaromurad322 you said "balance, period." I mean, if you really wanted to emphasise the point, you could have said "Balance comma period period" which is even more redundant than before. But just so you don't think I'm a complete d!ck, I'll give you the positive critique rather than just the negative. "Balance. Period."
Baggage claim: *Speaks truthfully and honestly* Thor: "I like this one."
Tf this even mean?
@@SubZero-hs9xc I’m commenting on the fact BC is a decent woman, in Thor’s voice. ;)
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.
I wouldn’t say the first
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.
I love how the teen girl looks baffled by that speech. Also yeah, I agree
We’re all imperfect as a species
@@chasehedges6775 Amen to that man. We are imperfect beings. It’s why I’m pretty sure my grandparents raised me with a mentality of, ‘Just try to be a better you, than the version of you you were the day before.’ If one day I find I’m kind of snippy more than usual? Practice better patience rest of the day and actively work on it. 🤷♂️ Self-Awareness and self-improvement are very foreign concepts to people these days.
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Also, Ferrera is acting like the same people are telling her all of those apparently contradictory things (even though some of them aren’t actually contradictory). Is it that she’s getting mixed messages, or is it that she doesn’t know which of these people to listen to?
Pandering is not exclusive to woke storytelling; it's a hallmark of all ideologically lead storytelling.
We shouldn't push motherhood and traditionality onto women who don't want it.
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...
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
I think that there should be no political ads or public campaigning allowed 6 months before the election. They can make websites with their platforms and that's it. Because slogans and pretty pictures are far too effective for masses who are used to 140 characters or a 30-second video for all their information.
Or perhaps people actually like It and your opinion isnt the norm, of a movie that 1.4 billion
@@SubZero-hs9xc Views don't equate to actually liking it.
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.
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.
The most spectacular own goal ever. The fact that Gerwig showed up her own side is probably part of the success
Gratitude is the secret weapon for this.
I'm pretty sure most of what America Ferrera is frustrated with is the rules other women put on women
"I'm just Ken" was the best musical number.
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.
Ryan has won a award for his role and America Ferrera and Margot and Greta and the movie it’s self won one award
Billie had no reason not to win an award for her song… it was amazing tf y’all have a problem with the song for?
@@AUGHHHHHBBGthe song was trash. Womp womp cry more
@@xxxmaysilssss690 It wasn’t trash, but, it also wasn’t Oscar worthy. Just an other industry plant paying for an award. Also, it’s annoying that the credit went to Billie when we all know Phineas carried 99.9% of that song.
I don’t think the pendulum is swinging back. People are less scared to call out crap and cancel culture isn’t as powerful that’s true. You can’t ignore that people don’t agree with the bs like they did maybe 4 or 5 years ago. But they dominate media, music, academia, journalism and even the super rich support them. The pendulum is still in their backyard
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.😂
Identifying as oppressed or a victim in our culture today gets you special treatment. Therefore, the victim mentality will thrive.
Nah bruh, nobody want's to be a victim of anything, hence why women are fighting against traditionality.
Sad - think how bad it's going to be in 10 years from now 😖
The world is sooo screwed
youd think society would improve but nope.
@@oooh19 Society will only go downhill
@@oooh19 You just happen to be in the minority of people who don't like the way things are going. If the world became more traditional, there'd be people who wouldn't like that either, so it's really not a big deal. Just man up and accept it.
@@chasehedges6775 No, society is just moving away from the ideas that you find important. It's not going downhill, you just dont agree with modernity.
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.
The monologue response should have just been, “no, none of that is true. Or at least, it doesn’t have to be.”
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. 💜
One of the first things I said coming out of this movie was that the writers didn’t understand what made Barbie so special.
So, Michael Knowles was right, it is kind of anti-feminist.
To be more accurate it is anti femininity.
Unintentionally contradicting the point you're trying to make because you're a shitty writer isn't being anti feminist
Not intentionally, but perhaps by being to honest about what feminism is pushing women towards. It accidentally exposes its incoherence.
@@Tallandstrong45 It's pro-demonic philosophy. That's what really matters to them. Selfishness, pride, vanity, narcissism, avarice, gluttony, unforgiving, vengeful etc. all put in a good light. The whole schmaltz it would seem.
@@Tallandstrong45 no the movie calls out both men and the toxic feminism y'all love to scream about
Watching Baggage Claims videos is like being dragged along shards of glass, and it's always *entirely* because of the subject matter. I can't even imagine having to actually be the one *making* the video. Thank you for your surgeon's eye, and ability to deconstruct what you discuss so thoroughly, BC. You're a real trooper.
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.
Because you're wrong and didn't get the movie's message at all.
@@HugoSoup57lol neither did you if you’re telling me how I felt as a woman watching it was “wrong”
@@HugoSoup57Sure, cry a little harder.
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.
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!
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hahah thanks for the reply :)@@chasehedges6775
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.
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.
13:39 "who gave you permission to talk to me" "Do I have something on my face soldier" "Who told you, you could talk to me!!!". Emily Blunt in one of my all time favs!!!
This movie was so successful despite the fact that it was Nightmare fuel
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I felt the uncanny valley everytime they were in Barbieland too much plastic
Y'all openly admitting y'all want men to stay in power and women to just be on the side is insane... I think you are the nightmare
That’s everything you need to know about women
@@AUGHHHHHBBG you’re literally hallucinating 😂
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.
Spot on analysis. To consider one’s self to be a victim in the society of abundance (wealth, freedom, possibilities) is an insult to the people who are really suffering in other parts of the world and are not as lucky. This video was really worth the wait, thank you. Looking forward to the next one.
I told my family that I thought "the Barbie movie hates men." and no one agreed with me 😞
yeah because the men in that movie had the best lines and best scenes.
This is an absolutely brilliant breakdown of so many issues. You really hit it out of the park on this one.
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!
As the brilliant Peachy Keenan pointed out, all of Ken’s references for “the patriarchy” are from 70’s and 80’s pop culture, which unintentionally shows just how long it’s been since “the patriarchy” controlled anything.
I think it came out unintentionally. The filmmakers wanted to make fun of Ken at the same time as pushing an anti-patriarchal narrative and keeping Ken in the position of women. More simply: Ken became a victim of conflicting narratives.
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.
Ken is the hero of the movie
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.
Great video Baggage ! Thanks for your insights. These types of ideas and movies are the reason why the relationship between men and women are getting worse. People are increasingly lonely, unhappy and full of hate. Most of the times is impossible to have a conversation about these topics, specially with woman.
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"This message implies thay being a woman is inherently a handicap." THANK YOU. I've been trying to pinpoint why that big speech always bothered me besides "Women aren't the only ones having a hard time." It still baffles me that this empowering film spent so much time telling you how hard your life is.
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.
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Wow. This is really insightful and well done. Subscribed.
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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.
Gosh this lady's voice is so soothing. BaggageClaim when are u gonna start doing audiobooks?
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
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.
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+