Odd Day Challenge it is!
August 1st theme is Beach, so this was asking for it 🫣🤭🤭🤭
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new metric for media literacy for film bros is if they understand the barbie movie.
the kens are first presented as accessories to their barbies and it's pointed out loud that they don't even have places to stay in barbieland. one of the barbies straight up asks "wait, where do the kens stay?". they're just arm candy made to look pretty and cool while the barbies run their world.
but that's fucked up!!! the film presents it as fucked up! that's why ken screams "YOU FAILED ME!" and why he is insecure in the first place because he wanted to be respected and seen as a person, not someone who only exists in relation to someone else. should he have done what he did? no!!! that's why it's part of the conflict! the root of both of their breakdowns was in their society in that the barbies are supposed to be perfect and the kens exist in relation to them! it's barbie and ken. he was a footnote. that's why barbie apologizes to him in the end and tells him he can be himself. she doesn't have to exist by some set of rules and neither does he! it's barbie and it's ken! sure, the resolution to the whole barbieland issue wasn't perfect, BUT KEN'S WHOLE ARC IS ABOUT HOW THEIR WORLD FAILED MEN. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS MOVIE WAS 'WOMEN GOOD MAN BAD'. WHAT ABOUT THE NUANCE
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I want to appreciate the outfit Barbie is wearing at the end of the movie, when Barbieland is taken back from the Kens and she walks with Ruth.
It's a simple yellow dress. Flowy, floral, nothing special. Her hair was laying almost flat, and she had a gold locket on. Not something you'd normally see on a Barbie.
It was such a human look. Not glamorous or glittery, no pink. Just an easy, everyday dress an average woman would wear to look flattering. It's so meaningful that when Barbieland is fixed, the Barbie we've been following for the past hour and a half just looks like a regular woman.
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save him🥚
Vec (OnionPowder_ on twt) inspired me to go thru my old AI chats with Flug (follow them if you don't already I wanna see them reach 10k finally)
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Spoilers for the Barbie movie ahead!!!
Ok so I saw this post by @whoa-axel-chill about people shipping Ken and Allan together (it just came out and y'all're already onto that? I'm almost impressed lol) and it got me thinking.
Allan and Ken are very much thematic opposites.
Ken's entire character arc was bringing the patriarchy to Barbieland because he wanted respect from Barbie (which, obviously did not work in his favor, but anyway). He doesn't know who he is without Barbie, but she hardly gives him the time of day (or, asks for the time). He turns Barbieland upside down trying to fill the hole in himself by putting himself and other Ken's on a pedestal that he doesn't even really want to be on, by his own admission ("To be honest, when I found out the patriarchy wasn't about horses I lost interest.") By the end of the movie, he still doesn't know who he is without his Barbie, but he's willing to find out and stop vying for Barbie's favor and affection. He doesn't have to be "just Ken" anymore. He's realized that he's "Kenough". (I really want that sweatshirt btw).
Allan, on the other hand, is sure of who he is from the get-go. After all, "there's only one Allan". Allan has no duplicates in Barbieland (although it is refrenced that he used to, but they went to the Real World. "It's happened before—All of NSYNC!") And we never even see Allan interact with Midge, who is supposedly his wife. Allan doesn't have a specific Barbie to be second to. Does that mean he gets respect in Barbieland? No, but it does mean he's not hinging his entire identity and self-worth on a woman who doesn't want him and so he doesn't become an enabler of the patriarchy when Ken brings it into Barbieland. It's just the opposite in fact. At first, he wanted to simply escape it, but he quickly began fighting back (very literally, in the case of the construction worker Kens). Allan stays sure of his masculinity and his sense of self while he helps the Barbies restore their world, because his moral compass isn't skewed by his need to prove himself—in any way.
In short, when comparing Ryan Gosling's Ken to Micheal Cera's Allan, it is clear that Ken's desire to turn Barbieland into a patriarchal society comes from a place of insecurity, wheres as Allan has no desire to depower the Barbies (and Midge) of Babrbieland because he is secure in himself, highlighting the toxicity of fragile masculinity.
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