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I think if anyone gets mad at a Barbie movie or some random article on the internet that has nothing to do with them, that's a good sign they're emotionally unstable
I'd call it emotionally immature.
A surprising number of the people I grew up or work with act like they're still in high school when it comes to social/interpersonal skills -- these people are all well over 30 years old.
Tomato, tomato. If you're a grown ass man, emotional immaturity IS instability.
I just treat most people like 16 year Olds and it tends to work out pretty well.
A matter of opinion. I thought that it was quite poorly written in the second half
Really funny movie I'm glad with the direction that they went with it
It's very obvious here that no one is saying "if you don't like a Barbie movie then you're sexist." The point is if you don't agree with equality, whether in a movie or irl, then that's the problem. But I feel like you probably already know this.
But yes, if people from certain religions and political parties would just stop with the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia, maybe people wouldn't feel the need to express ~~cultural values~~ the oppression they're experiencing. Maybe consumers wouldn't identify so much with the message of films like this. Yet somehow it's always positive media like this that gets pushback, and meanwhile, laws keep getting passed in bumfuck states that are stripping human rights from people one by one. But sure, Barbie is the "exhausting" issue here.
In other words, maybe there wouldn't be media "pushing" for equality if we already had it.
And idk, I find Marvel/superhero bullshit to be exhausting and immature and just bad, so I don't watch any of it, I block everything about it on lemmy and reddit, and I don't comment on it. Then it's not exhausting anymore.
You should add a TL;DR to that which says "I don't understand feminism and I'm making it everyone else's problem."
People are free to be mad at anything as they please as long as they dont harm to other people.
Or maybe people should not be mad at news article of Russia invading Ukraine for no reason?
You are comparing war to an article on Barbie lmao I can't take you seriously
It is an article. Both.
Dont worry, I also dont take people on Internet seriously. Most of them are not even my equal.
damn dude. I hate people too, but jeez.
Define "mad". I've watched it (arrr) myself and The Barbie movie is very political, despite them completely hiding it in the trailers and the promotional material.
Fervent political media tends to rile people up, especially when it's very one-sided. I presume you haven't seen it and think people are upset over a light hearted comedy.
It's only political if you think human rights are political. For normal people who care about other people, it's a light hearted comedy
Human rights are political by definition. Feminism is political by definition. That the average person (or at least the ones worth knowing) is a feminist, whether they know it or not, doesn't mean the ideas aren't political in nature.
The problem is that people think political means bad or controversial instead of, you know, relating to concepts of governance and self rule.
The fact that I don't want to go to the movies to watch propaganda doesn't mean I'm against that propaganda. I go there to be entertained.
You didn't reply to their comment, you just added your own idiotic take. The movie isn't propaganda unless you think a story about women and men having equal rights and equal opportunity is propaganda.
Is The Matrix propaganda? Is Terminator propaganda? Is Star Trek propaganda? All entertaining movies, all have heavy social commentary.
I haven't seen the Barbie movie. I have no idea what it's like. My comment was about "propaganda" movies in general
You'll get nothing from communists in this discussion friend. People refuse to allow our media to be escapism anymore and demand even already addressed issues drilled into 'entertainment'. We traded pop culture references for this, and somehow I want the references back
The Barbie movie is still escapism, media in general is still escapism. Media has always contained messages or lessons or political meaning, it's not a new thing, nobody's disallowing anything. If you don't like today's media, maybe it's because you don't like the messages they contain anymore. Sometimes you gotta look inward before blaming things on "society".
EvErYoNe WhO dIsAgReEs WiTh Me Is A cOmMuNiSt. You're not even aware at how much of a self-report you're doing.
It's not one-sided, though. It argues that both matriarchy and patriarchy are not inclusive ways of operating a society. The movie did not shy away from showing Ken's dissatisfaction living under a matriarchy, just like it did not shy away from showing Gloria and Sasha's dissatisfaction with living under a patriarchy
I liked that it at least gave a few nods to the idea that living in a patriarchy isn't necessarily great for all men either. Not all men have power, and even the ones that do aren't necessarily happier for it and find themselves competing with other men and restricting their own self-expression. That's a nuance that's lost in a lot of pop feminist messaging.
Absolutely! The dolls of both genders that were discontinued or discarded were the first ones to bring down the patriarchy in Barbie land, including Allan and Sugar's Daddy/Magic Ring Ken
Fucking Good. I've really got to watch it.
Exactly the way actual feminism does instead of the conservative boogeyman "feminism" that's just female chauvinism espoused by an extreme minority.
I love it for being an egalitarian movie. More of that please.
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If it's talking about equality then it's not political. People's lives are not political they are not objects for other people to react to. Touch grass.
There are only two categories: the status quo (no matter how shitty it might be for some populations) and "political".