#greta gerwig the woman you are!!!!!

[eternallovers65]

The way she takes of the high heel but is still on tip toes, how she waves around and the car drives itself, the barbieland sign with the hearts around, the pink slide, the glittery posters and the perfect descriptions

SHE'S EVERYTHING HE'S JUST KEN!!!!!!!

Greta you did again!!!!!!

[garbagequeer]

we used to be a society. we used to blog about the fact that greta gerwig needs to find out what a lesbian is

[lollytea]

Tbh I think the Barbie movie handled its theme of existentialism better than the feminism.

[artist-issues]

I mean actually it's really just the story of Adam and Eve and their fall, but with Greta Gerwig's ending and contextual spin put on it.

God actually created man in His own image first, for relationship with Him, and then added woman because it was not good for man to be alone without a helper. Then the Enemy told Eve that disobeying God would make her "LIKE GOD," so she disobeyed God and Adam went along with it, and instead of being like God they became monsters and their relationship was broken with God. But He offered a way to fix it by sacrificing His Son in mankind's place and un-twisting their monstrousness back into what humanity was meant for.

But in Greta Gerwig's understanding, Eve was in a sheltered idealized perfect environment and started to "wake up" to the messy possibilities of life and mortality. Barbie's jarred out of perfect, idealized Barbieland and into the messy life-and-mortality of the real world. Oh, and Ken's there too.

Instead of learning that she's become a twisted-up monster-version of what she'd been made for and opting to be returned to her true purpose, like a Christian does, Barbie does the opposite.

She decides she wants to become human--and since, in this movie, humanity means "messy decision maker" and that, in turn, translates to "a god worthy of worship," she's literally doing what Eve ACTUALLY did to sever her relationship with God in the first place: try to be god.

But instead of that breaking Barbie's relationship with her creator and twisting her up even further until she's eventually destroyed, this decision to be god is portrayed as a good thing. In fact, her creator admits that (supposedly) a creator has no say in the matter--then disappears. Because in Greta Gerwig's worldview, God is dead, for all the meaning or use or power He has, and we are gods just as we are.

It's disgusting. It's revisionist history. It's taking a historical person with the moral standing of King Henry, and writing a metaphor about how chopping his wives' heads off was actually the grand transcendent defining moment of his life--which was objectively beautiful.

That's what Greta Gerwig's Barbie has done with humanity's Fall. She says "it wasn't a Fall, it was an Awakening." Which is exactly what the Enemy lied and claimed that it would be. She's just believing the old lie and perpetuating it.

And unfortunately, the God of the Bible is actually real (plot twist) and very much on control of how all this ends. And it just doesn't end with the monsters pretending to sit on His throne listening to a pretty Billie Eilish song and smiling the end credits into place, I gotta say.

I mean it's expertly done. Very engaging story. Speaks to everything we, as humans, love in the worst way. But it's a lie. And its basically the least original take on...humanity. The world we live in. God Himself. It's the original unoriginality.

[brionysea]

people get so mad when you say "maybe this previously romantic thing is platonic" but no one gives a fuck when you say "maybe this previously platonic thing is romantic". I wonder why. truly baffled. couldn't possibly figure it out.

[frecklystars]

of COURSE he did

[mermaidsirennikita]

I did not expect to give a fuck about Greta Gerwig marrying Noah Baumbach, but it has been fun to watch the "THERE'S A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL FOR WOMEN WHO DON'T SUPPORT OTHER WOMEN" coalition of Greta's target audience find out about that one Very Notable Time that Greta did not, in fact, support another woman

[livvyofthelake]

olivia rodrigo is NOT bisexual the beauty of her whole deal rests entirely in the fact that she’s straight but acts like that anyway… for feminism. do you even care

[alilaro]

the barbie movie should be state-sanctioned mandatory viewing

[noblerinthemind]

Maybe the real cognitive dissonance is the products we placed along the way <3

[jester-step]

the barbie movie making me tear up multiple times was NOT on my summer bucket list and yet here we are

[thehobbem]

The Barbie movie: a summary

[vampir3sfall]

barbie is a ace lesbian send tweet

[crabonfire]

one small post from hiatus to simply say how much I adored barbie. As a plus sized girl when I saw the plus sized barbie so beautifully adorned in her outfit I wanted to cry, and how barbie sat with the old woman at the bench, how she met her creator, how Ruth gave that speech about being a woman...this movie will be engraved into my memory forever. Its perfect, I love you barbie. I can speak for hours on how beautifully written it is and how much depth there is to it, but God.

[windows-in-the-night]

can you tell that i'm a greta gerwig fan? (rhetorical)

also reblog the poll after you take it or tag some moots in it so that i can get more results!

[undescribed1mage]

they're two days early <3