Commentary: ‘Barbie’ haters misunderstand what it takes to be Kenough
[Warning: Spoilers for the movies “Barbie’” and “Oppenheimer” follow.] As a feminist film, it goes almost without saying that director Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster “Barbie” has its haters, largely on the grounds that the movie hates men. “My main objection is that ‘Barbie’ is not really a film about Barbie at all,” Sarah Vine wrote in the Daily Mail. “It’s one hour and 54 minutes of ...
by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Jul 26, 2023
4 minutes
[Warning: Spoilers for the movies “Barbie’” and “Oppenheimer” follow.]
As a feminist film, it goes almost without saying that director Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster “Barbie” has its haters, largely on the grounds that the movie hates men.
“My main objection is that ‘Barbie’ is not really a film about Barbie at all,” Sarah Vine wrote in the Daily Mail. “It’s one hour and 54 minutes of extended misandry, dressed up with a few fun dance routines and one or two (granted fairly decent) jokes. It’s a deeply anti-man movie, an extension of all that TikTok feminism that paints any form of masculinity — other than the most anodyne — as toxic and predatory, and
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