There is one aspect that is overlooked with the Barbie Movie

[mercuryblues]

Why do *some* men hate it so much?

The Kens are being treated the way they treat women. They way they want all women to be treated. As just Barbie, an appendage of Ken. There only to make them look good. Nothing more and a whole lot less if they could get away with it.

[Stardust Mirror]

1. What's great about Ken

[mercuryblues]

2. Oh no, not the shoebox.

[Lemonwurst]

3. I was shocked at how I personally felt

I’m part of the preferred demographic, and you know what I mean by that. Loved the Barbie movie full stop, but no doubt about it, in the early parts I was feeling uneasy at how the “Kens” were regarded in Barbie-World.

And that was exactly the point, and why this movie deserves credit for being well-crafted. I’ve always been a liberal male, but I still felt uncomfortable with the way males were treated in the opening scenes of this movie. Why? Because I’ve never felt that, and US movies in general won’t ever cause that, period. In fact, US movies and everything else in American culture purposely makes us males feel like a superior gender supported but never upstaged by women. Watch any action-drama movie and that’s ridiculously evident.

So it was simultaneously instructive and horrifying to realize that women, a group I’ve always felt should have unquestioned equal value in our society, don’t EVER get the kind of preferential treatment that us males get (without even recognizing it).

Glad this movie is getting the conversation started for those of us who we believed were the enlightened ones. For the Trumpers, forget about it, there’s nothing there to work with.

[mercuryblues]

4. Well said

The good thing about movies like this being so successful is that women are seen as more than the "girlfriend who has to be saved." That plot line is so old I pretty much stopped going to movies.

[redqueen]

5. My daughter saw it and told me how good it was

but I haven't seen it yet. Looking forward to it for sure. I'm so glad it did so well

[boston bean]

6. Yeah and at the end it did improve for them slightly

But were still relegated to a todays woman’s role/life/rights etc.