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So me and my siblings decided to watch the Barbie movie. (There will be spoilers going forward)
(hexbear.net)
Some of the jokes were ok, mostly its messaging felt like what an out of touch liberal thinks feminism sounds like.
Lost it when they defeated the patriarchy by 
-ing harder than anyone has ever done before.
Also, this has got to be the first movie I've seen that is pro-voter disenfranchisement.
The two Kens unaffected by the patriarchy being shitty queer stereotypes annoyed me but not sufficiently that I wasn't like 
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at one of them being Rob Brydon.
The movie, from what I could tell, is trying to demonstrate the ideas of how patriarchy works by getting the audience to feel bad for the Kens, who (like women in the real work) hold no positions of power and are the "second sex," accessories of the Barbies but not whole persons themselves. Then the Kens rebel, but they don't break the Ken/Babrie dichotomy, instead replacing matriarchy by patriarchy which obviously doesn't work. The main Barbie is clearly not OK with this status quo, hence why she leaves in the end, because she sees "her" Ken as a real person worthy of being enfranchised and elevated to the status of human. The Barbie world is just an inversion of our world, and it doesn't seem to me the movie is saying that's a "good" thing so much as it's using that inversion to explore what patriarchy is and what it means. Just because a movie shows you something doesn't mean it endorses it.