matched with this girl and we got to talking and then she didn’t reply for like a week and then just responded saying “hi sorry” and continued the conversation & tht was the biggest turn on like ohhh i love a girl who doesn’t take texting seriously that’s so hot. let’s throw our phones in a lake
theres just something so sad and lovely about the way barbie went from freaking out over flat feet and cellulite to truly appreciating the lady at the bus stop to going back home and finding out all her friends had basically become slaves to finally accepting herself at the end.
greta gerwig managed to condense almost everything a women regularly feels into a 3 hour movie, and that makes me so, so represented and also emotional.
It’s important to recognise that Barbie (2023) criticises both the patriarchy AND the matriarchy. Yes, the Ken’s are just accessories to the Barbies. Yes, they don’t have any say in the government they live under. That’s the point, you’re supposed to feel awful, you’re supposed to want the Kens to have their own agency, you’re supposed to want equality. The Barbie movie explicitly states that the way Barbie treats Ken is wrong, so much so that once he finds a safe space for his masculinity and individual identity he’s so excited to share it with the other Kens.
But they go overboard and replace a matriarchy with a patriarchy and now the same issue exists but in reverse. That’s the POINT!! THATS THE POINT!!! Barbie is not anti-men it’s pro equality PLEASE understand this
