#Barbara Handler

[imagineherbrightskies]

Barbie saying I don't feel perfect anymore and how she never has been president or written a book or done something important and that absolutely struck a cord with me that I started tearing up in the movie theater. I felt seen just by that moment of barbie being vulnerable.

[gwendolynshepherds]

The fact that THE ORIGINAL, the namesake for Barbie, who is 82 years old and is likely at or reaching a point where she is acutely aware of her own mortality, told Barbie that humans have an ending but ideas live forever

I will not recover

[rhcenyra]

The real world is forever and irrevocably messed up!

[barbie-pride-flags]

Aroace pride flag color picked from Barbara from Barbie (2023)!

[animaniacs16]

Wow I love the story of an individual from a “perfect” society that has a distant (or disdainful) view of humans, until they find themselves in a situation involving humans and the human world. Said situation leads to a realization, possibly an extidtential crisis, about their role in their society and the enticing thought of choosing their own destiny.

They start falling in love with the idiosyncrasies of humanity and championing the innate, yet complicated, goodness within humankind. They love the little things that humans do subconsciously or without noticing, and the small annoyances that humans bemoan, such as burning oneself on TV dinners or making doctors appointments.

Eventually, they find themselves with the opportunity to experience (or bring a new being to experience) humankind for themselves, and take it after reflecting on the human condition and what it means to be human. While funny, the story is an unexpectedly poignant reflection on humankind.

[ladylylla]

That barbie is having and existential crisis and thats just ken !!

[typoinmybloodbitch]

barbie’s scenes with ruth were so so BEAUTIFUL like movies can add the mother daughter trope and i will eat that shit up EVERY TIME they do

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

"I wanna be...a part of the people that make meaning, not the thing that's made. I want to do the imagining, I don't want to be the idea.

Does that make sense?"

BARBIE (dir. Greta Gerwig, wr. Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

On March 9, 1959, at the North American International Toy Fair at 200 Fifth Avenue, Ruth Handler, founder (with her husband Elliott) of the toy company Mattel, displayed a new doll she called Barbie. Named after her daughter, the doll was meant to show that little girls could grow up to be more than mothers or caregivers—they could be firefighters, doctors, astronauts. "Experts" predicted that the doll would be a flop—they couldn't imagine children wanting to play with a grown-up doll.

They were wrong. In its first year, 300,000 Barbie dolls were sold. The first one sold for $3.00. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Photo: the original 1959 Barbie, from Barbie Media via Business Insider

[gen15gg]

i think barbie would LOVE hannah montana and go on to think miley and hannah are two diff ppl until gloria or sasha has to break the news to her or smt LMAO

[enidsinclair]

barbenheimer 💖🖤

source | artist's website

[val-creative]

Fictober Day 19: “this is getting ridiculous”

Barbie/Barbie (Barbie 2023)

For @fictober-event Day 19 prompt!

Type: Fanfiction | Fandom: Barbie (2023) | Ship: Barbie Handler/Weird Barbie | Warnings & Triggers: None!

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All throughout Barbie Land...

"Hi, Barbie~!"

"Hi, Barbie~~! Oh, you're so pretty♥~!"

"YOU'RE so pretty♥~~♥~, Barbie!"

"*I* was pretty once..."

"We know, Weird Bar--I mean, Barbie."

"Yeahhh... I know you know."

"This is getting ridiculous."

Stifling a yawn, Barbara wakes up. A memory, she supposes. A memory of being a Barbie from Barbie Land, not Barbara Handler.

"You up?" Gloria asks cheerfully, knocking. "There's a visitor."

Barbara, in fluffy bunny-slippers and a robe, wanders to the front door opened. A woman, taller than Barbara, motions awkwardly.

"You look different," she blurts out, grinning wide. "Hotter, actually."

Confused, Barbara squints sleepily. Then, it hits her. It wasn't so easy to tell without the colorful, chopped hair and marker-scribblings.

"Oh my gosh... Barbie...?"

"Nah. Just call me weird," the other former-Barbie says, no less enthusiastic. "Or Preminger. For some reason, I really like Preminger."

Laughing joyously, Barbara hugs her, feeling real warmth.

"Awh. Missed you too, Barbasaurs-Rex."

[rhcenyra]

BARBIE (2023)

[barbie-pride-flags]

Trans pride flag color picked from Barbara from Barbie (2023)!

[huntressofartemis001]

i was just thinking about the fact that we hardly ever see a relationship where one is emotionally dependent on the other and the other comforts them and helps them.

it’s usually “yeah you’re nobody without me!!” or a friend going “yes you are someone without them”. its never “yes you are someone without me”.

and thats one thing we got to see in the Barbie movie, when Ken says he is nobody without Barbie, that he needs her, and BARBIE says “you need to figure out who you are. i am not your whole personality. you are someone without me, and there’s people who can help you find out who that someone is.”

and it’s beautiful because it’s rare.

[literaryspinster]

Category: Characters a lot of people think are gay that I personally think are ace.