#bad barbie

[mcbride]

BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig +⭐letterboxd reviews by men

[uminoojosama]

[cara-mel5]

here we have the amazing future aeronautical engineer lily zneimer. she's pretty, nice, intelligent (achieved the best GCSE grades in her school's history), just an amazing person, we love her she is both barbie and elle woods she is beauty she is grace-

oh who's that guy next to her?? uhhhh idk think his name is oscar pastatree or smth idk what he does. think he drives cars?? ehh not important. anyway lily zneimer-

[cak31ssuperi04]

Barbie protagonists but make it My Scene

[ncutii-gatwa]

RYAN GOSLING REHEARSING "I'M JUST KEN"

[chloesimaginationthings]

Spider ham is a Pikmin fan

[spoiledbratblog]

[tricoufamily]

just some ivy league kids trying to figure out necromancy

[huyandere]

it’s them to me

[nalairin]

And I’m back in it folks(when I say that I disappear for months)

[ladyantiheroine]

Barbie and Sasha

I have to say I really appreciate the Sasha character in Barbie. I see a lot of my middle school self in her.

I too was a girl who adored Barbie as a kid, but then I got older and got a first taste of What The Real World Is Like (inequality, sexism, etc.)

And then I rejected Barbie because I internalized all the misogynistic crap that had been projected on her and she became a symbol of All Shitty Things Women Are Expected To Be (brainless, useless, only exist to be pretty assistants to men).

Hence, I fell deep into a “not like other girls” phase because I desperately didn’t want anyone to think I was one of those girls (“”brainless bimbos who have no thought in their heads but boys””). I wanted to be taken seriously, and as someone who was already a bit tomboyish, I felt like I had to reject everything Barbie represented in my eyes.

But then I got older, and a tiny bit more nuanced, and realized Barbie being bubbly and pink wasn’t the problem: The problem was the assertion that anything considered “girly” can’t be smart, or useful, or anything but an empty shell.

Barbie is far from flawless and perfectly unproblematic, but the older I get the more I realize that she wasn’t the problem: It was the flawed people and world around her that were.

Anyway, Sasha does a great job illustrating that push and pull between what Barbie used to mean when you’re an innocent kid versus what she can become when you start to grow out of childhood and get your first taste of the real world and how deeply unfair it can be, especially to girls.

Anyway, Barbie is great go see it.

[kookies2000]

Is it just me, or did all the companies just pull out their big guns against Disney on their 100th anniversary?

The Last Wish and Bad Guys by Dreamworks destroyed it! Mario by Illumination came out. Spider-Verse 2 is self-explanatory. Little Mermaid 2023 fell into their shadow. Barbie by Mattel destroyed the summer, unfortunate for Huanted Mansion. FNAF by Blum House is gonna dominate both October and November. And then we have Trolls 3 by Dreamworks with an all-star cast singing 90 and 2000s classics. AND pulled out an NSYNC song/reunion after 22 years.

I'm convinced the companies were in cahoots this year.

Edit: Forgot Nimona by Blue Sky's, basically calling out Disney's homophobia.

[femslashspuffy]

I love the fact that Margot Robbie said no one on the Barbie set would walk on the fake water of the fake pools and everyone would go around them even tho they were completely solid like that's so funny, a whole production team conditioned to play pretend in a giant Barbie dream house