Lefty Response to Barbie Oscars
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Yes, unironically.
Barbie is the story of a woman coming to terms with the fact that men win everything and are always in charge because they are objectively better at these things.
Rather than accepting that, she creates an imaginary world where women are superior and where they, inevitably, treat men like housepets.
But, because you can't escape nature, the men in her fantasy still take over and create a world that is objectively better for both sexes, at which point she pulls herself up short and comes to the realization that men in the real world could consign women to pet-hood but benificently allow them to pretend to contribute. The Barbies allowing the Kens to "start at the bottom" in their society is her roundabout way of showing gratitude that the men in the real world humour women's attempts to be relevant, even though they have no need to do so.
Thanks Greta, five stars!
It also shows that once men escape the crushing oppression that is simping and just assumed subservience to women, they immediately can overtake them easily.
Which is an accidentally amazing lesson for a movie to toss out that more men need to hear about their own capabilities and power.
I love how they just come out at the other end with their messaging. Wants to make a super feminist movie but accidentally go full circle and men can have a lesson about how feminism is not the answer.
It's the same effect as that one new guy comic if people remember where the tranny author wanted to make the "new guy" the bad guy but his genuine wholesomeness made the author self insert look like a jerk.
Its the classic Starship Troopers problem. Where your message is so retarded and extreme that the majority of people will take the complete opposite from it because they aren't extremists.