Strangle that golden goose while you can, Hollywood MBAs.
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My fiancé saw it without any idea of the creators, actors, or their beliefs. And she thought the movie was hilarious, and was intended as a satire of the hardcore Rad-Fem types with how Barbie was treating Ken.
And from what I have been seeing, that is what a lot of normies are taking away from it.
I'm starting to think that LotusEaters might be right that this was actually a massive self-own, a la: Starship Troopers.
I would believe it. She actually liked Ken more than Barbie, because she thought he was funnier. And I have been seeing a lot more memes of Ken and how based he is even in more normie-aligned areas. It almost certainly got the Starship Troopers treatment, where their sincerely held beliefs are so outlandish and alien to the average person it comes off as a joke.
And since people think is a joke, they interact with it as a joke, which leaves them open to thinking maybe Ken was the one who was right.
I wish there will be a GI Joe movie where most of the runtime is spent on women hating. Let’s see how your girlfriend likes it.
If it is as on the nose with its misogyny as Barbie was with its misandry? And if it it starts with an absurd premise like the existence of a GI Joe Land? Then yeah, she probably would think it was a joke.
After all, I already know she hates that stuff because she has been upset when hardcore manhating was done in the past, especially on characters she likes. And she doesn’t like the other modern trend of them making all the female characters into being an absolute bitch and then calling it “girlboss”.
Which is why she mostly watches Anime now, where they still make characters that are interesting for both sexes and don’t step on each other’s toes.