#barbieposting

[dracomysthical]

Barbie (2023) really had Barbie say “hey. I know the reason you hurt me is because I hurt you. I’m sorry I hurt you, because you didn’t deserve that. I know you are a better person than this, and you are fully capable of being that person. I can’t change the past, and I don’t think we can be in each other’s lives anymore without hurting each other, but i am sorry and I want you to be happy. I want you to find your identity and love yourself and live.” and then she realizes she’s also talking about herself.

she’s saying “I deserve to live. We both deserve to live.” it is one of the kindest things I have ever seen done to someone and to themselves in any piece of media ever

#Barbie #barbie spoilers #Ken #barbieposting

[kierancaz]

Someone tell me if I’m being to sensitive but I keep seeing ppl on tiktok making edits of Barbie and posting slideshows with Barbie saying that she’s a lesbian and it lowkey makes me really sad and frustrated and want to cry bc isn’t Barbie aroace? She never shows any romantic attraction to anyone the entire film and says outright that she doesn’t have reproductive organs. Like we get so little rep and then just bc a character doesn’t show attraction to the male lead they’re automatically labeled lesbian by the fandom and idk that just annoys me a bit but idk if I’m being to sensitive about it.

#barbieposting #barbie movie #barbie spoilers #barbie #greta gerwig #greta gerwing barbie #barbie and ken #aroace barbie #aroace #aromantic #asexual #ace representation #ace barbie #aro barbie

[bardass]

but the hot take that y’all aren’t ready for yet is that all the barbies and kens in barbieland are asexual. when ken suggests that he stay over because he and barbie are quote “boyfriend/girlfriend” and she asks “to do what?” and he says “…i honestly don’t know” it’s because they may be a reflection of stereotypical human relationships in the real world, but they lack any of the substance beyond the superficial. this is supported when barbie explicitly states that she doesn’t have a vagina and ken doesn’t have a penis (despite ken’s insistence that he quote “has all the genitals,” okay intersex king). therefore if neither barbie nor ken have genitals and presumably no sexual organs or biological functions (such as the need to eat/drink/bathe with real water/etc. as shown in the film), then none of the barbies or kens should experience sexual attraction or desire, just like they don’t experience most of the human emotion spectrum (perhaps making an exception for weird barbie in this case, who remarks about wondering what “plastic blob [ken] has got going on in those shorts” to paraphrase. i really don’t have an answer for this one, maybe she’s bisexual or maybe she’s just being weird. who’s to say). ergo (at least prior to main barbie becoming human and having her vaginoplasty surgery), she and the rest of the residents of barbieland are canonically asexual by default and any sexualized projection onto them are merely that: projections. that all being said, barbie can be anything, including an ace homoromantic non-binary trans woman. in this essay i will—

#this is all just an elaborate post to share my barbie headcanons #i just watched the movie again last night and had to get all my thoughts out #lmk ur headcanons in the tags if u reblog #barbie spoilers #barbieposting #barbie #barbie movie #barbie (2023) #barbie movie (2023) #barbie movie spoilers #barbieland #media #media analysis #ken #barbie and ken #weird barbie #queer #queer barbie #ace barbie #ace #asexual #asexual barbie #trans barbie #bardass posts #bardass speaks #mine #text post

[moodboardofficial]

#aesthetic #moodboard #mood board #aesthetic moodboard #aesthetic mood board #barbie #ken barbie #ryan gosling #barbie 2023 #barbie the movie #greta gerwig #ken barbie movie #hes just ken #just ken #and ken #he is kenough #barbieposting #ken ryan gosling #ken icons #ken pfp #I'm just ken #i am kenough #kenough #you are kenough #we are kenough

[hooid]

Who up pushing they boulder (crippling dysphoria)

#196 #rule #barbie #barbieposting #me fr #trans

[marlinspirkhall]

Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper, a film so iconic they have an emoji for it: 🏳️‍⚧️

#I watched the film as a kid like I am Julian and Julian is Me #and then I grew up and realized there was a reason for that #anyway #barbieposting #barbie as the princess and the pauper #PATP

[ophanim-vesper]

While I know everyone's made a billion posts on their thoughts on Barbie, I thought I'd throw mine into the mix and say what I wanna say about the movie.

First things first, we all agree the Mattel board people are dolls, right? They're all just dolls, no further explanation? Ok good.

Second, I wanted to take a moment to appreciate how... Barbie Margot Robbie was in this movie. She was perfectly Barbie in every way. Every time I saw her on screen I felt a sense of comfort. She was the Barbie. The Barbie I looked up to as a child. The Barbie I got as a school bag and used everyday up until 6th grade. The Barbie I saw in the animated movies that I watched on screen, wishing I was a mermaid, a fairy or a princess. The Barbie who reminded me of the times when liking pink and playing with dolls was okay. The Barbie that made me feel proud, happy and safe to be born a girl.

At the same time, I also felt fear and anxiety for her, especially when she was in the real world. Everything about her character was shattered in an instant. When she found out women weren't as respected and successful as in her world. When she was viewed as an object and sexualized, harassed and diminished by every man she came across. When she found out girls hate her and blame her for pushing feminism back several years and further stereotyping women in a negative light.

It was actually heartbreaking seeing a hero of mine be so broken down by everything around her. And yet, in the face of so much adversity, she still found light at the end of the tunnel. A glimmer of hope for humanity and how being human has its ups and downs, it has its tears and laughter, and overall, it is beautiful.

Even when she was thrusted into the cold, heartless reality that was the Real World, she still wanted to be human and live in it. Not only to help change it, but to also experience it. She understands that life is complicated, but through it all, it is worthwhile. Perhaps, the more she lives and understands humans today, the more Barbie (the brand itself) could change for the betterment of both sides.

Another feeling I felt towards her was jealousy. Actually its more of a mix of jealousy and admiration. Barbie is the epitome of the pink girly style. As a kid, I did love that style, but overtime I began to resent it.

I resented it because of what people said it represented: a dumb, selfish bimbo that is the perfect stereotype of a Woman™ [derogatory]. I didn't want to be perceived that way, as I'm sure many did, so I did the only thing I could: renounce my femininity.

I thought this was the right thing to do. I thought I was breaking the status quo and pushing forward the new face of feminism. I wasn't though, if anything I was feeding into it. In the end, the whole: 'Pick Me/Not Like Other Girls' shtick is the complete opposite of what its thought to be: it seeks the attention of men and conforms into what they approve in a woman.

Now, I can't help but see anyone who is so confident in their girly, pink, feminine style and feel jealous. I wish I had never resented that side of me. In truth, I never hated pink, I never hated wearing dresses and I never hated being feminine. I was just afraid of how others would perceive me if I continued being girly. I wish I could be like those people and always be true to myself, instead of conforming to an ideal that would theoretically protect me from judgmental eyes.

I also want to talk about Sasha, the daughter. I can't help but see much of myself in her. Especially in the montage where she goes from loving Barbie and having a deep relationship with her mother, to despising it and becoming cruel and harsh to protect herself from the equally harsh world around her.

I was that girl who renounced the color pink and tried to be tough. I was the girl who looked down on other girls to be different. I tried to seek attention from my male peers unaware that I was not only not breaking the system but also feeding into it.

I absolutely love pink now and wish I could take back the days where I played with my dollhouses and had pool parties with my toys. But I can't do that anymore. The best I can do is stand still and watch other daughters see how far they've come.

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #can you guys tell I cried during this movie #analysis #barbieposting #ramble #long post

[bittersweetbuttercup]

#Barbie #Barbie movie #Ken #barbieposting

[renofthewoods]

do yall ever look at a character and go "wow! they're so me. i love their energy and want to be their friend SO BAD." that's me with allan from the barbie movie

#barbieposting #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #allan barbie #he's adorable and i love him #i want to be his friend so bad #he's so me

[16-jarrah]

barbie movie was kinda bad to be honest.

if you're super attached and sentimental abt this movie you might not wanna read this bc i don't really pull punches with this one. but here is my first impressions rant lmao. i might come back to it when i've collected my thoughts more and let it stew a little (and maybe see it a second time just by myself at home?)

the way the movie ended was really bad and it left a sour taste in my mouth (📌), but even from just earlier in the movie i already felt like smth was off. and i mean, it's not like i wasn't excited for it even if i tried to avoid a lot of the stuff to not overhype myself (and i usually like going in blind anyway). but even as the movie started i already got the feeling of, oh this is what kind of movie it's gonna be. and for the most part it proves that initial assumption right.

and by "this" i meant like.. a really shallow preachy "feminist" tone. y'know, those kinds of movies/shows that pretend like they're going to say something meaningful about a mature topic but they end up just being shallow and mostly filled with platitudes and such. it's just kinda weird cz i expected more. but it felt like the movie was just using every character as a direct mouthpiece to the audience, and it could still work i guess if they actually had something to say. i think the movie was kind of a mess. i don't know what kind of lesson i was supposed to take away from it at the end, especially when they just start word vomiting at you. at some parts of the movie i wanted to turn my brain off but i still paid attention in case it was gonna pick itself up but like, it really didn't.

i think the rest of the movie was ok. the cinematography was enjoyable still, but the writing was just. so shallow that i couldn't bring myself to fully say i had a blast watching it. it felt like it was more interested in going through a checklist/outline of feminist things to say without being interested in elaborating any of it. it felt like they had too much they wanted to talk about that it just felt scattershot; i feel like it would've had stronger writing if they had just picked a topic to focus on and spent more time with it. they had the chance to explore something more—heck, they had this pretty diverse cast, why exactly did it still need to be focused on "stereotypical barbie" if they really wanted to explore something else? plenty of movies have been successful with an ensemble cast... it wouldn't fix their issue of splitting themselves amongst multiple things they wanted to talk about, but it could help with the focus. maybe have one barbie deal with one topic or throughline then another barbie with another topic, etc. idk. i also found it weird to make a snarky comment about how "if the movie wanted to make a point about barbie not needing to be [conventionally pretty] then they shouldn't have cast margot robbie for this" and like?? you're right lmao. you don't get to be cheeky by saying "guess we were wrong about this one :9 shrug". if they weren't interested in addressing this issue then they shouldn't have just called attention to it in the first place. it just makes it worse. feels like saying "ha! you can't criticize us for this decision because we already did it first."

i also have a problem with the thing near the end of "how about normal barbie? barbie doesn't need to be extraordinary! why can't she just be a regular person?" umm. the point of barbie wasn't to make women feel like they should be extraordinary to be accepted?? the point of barbie is that anyone can BE barbie. you ARE barbie no matter what kind of path you choose. it's kinda like spider-man in a sense that, "anyone can be under the mask." ANYONE can be barbie. i feel like the movie made a strawman out of misconstruing the original intent behind the "empowerment" of barbie. the point of multiple versions of barbie and the different playsets and shit comes from the appeal that she can be ANYTHING you want her to be. who are you fighting against, movie?? that type of misogyny where women should excel otherwise they don't matter certainly exist in the real world but like, i feel like it's a bit disingenuous to pretend it's what the barbie franchise wanted to convey as well. (i am by no means a barbie toyline history expert so i'm open to be corrected on this.)

and the whole... storyline with ken/the kens?? like i get what they're trying to do, have "the boys get a taste of their own medicine", but it's just. It's Just Weird. what did they wanna accomplish with it? i feel like this movie suffers from a shallow understanding of how sexism and misogyny and toxic masculinity actually works... like "oh teehee what if men were the ones oppressed by women instead and women were the ones oppressing men?" but they didn't do anything interesting with it, they just switched sexes and that's it. it's still the same except you just switched the men and women label now. (and the movie has a very black and white view of sex and gender. but that's another point to discuss entirely.)

what makes it worse is that the kens rise to power because they craved more appreciation from the barbies, but then they get knocked down a peg by the barbies and they "lose" like they "deserve". like, what is THIS meant to convey if we try to use it as a parallel for real world feminism, if kens = RL women and barbies = RL men?? that women shouldn't demand to be seen and appreciated more by men and that if they try to take on equal footing and power they should get pushed back down the hierarchy or something??? like WHAT??? and even if you could argue that the kens lost because of their egos/pride/toxic masculinity, it still feels off. because yes, there is a certain "masculine brand" of being too prideful but like. anyone is susceptible to getting too egotistical for their own good. idk??? the way they just handle it is so messy. it's not even like, ambiguous in the "open for interpretation, there are multiple readings of this possible that all try to say something different" kinda way. it's ambiguous in the messy, "we don't know what we wanna say" kind of way.

another thing i wanna talk abt is the teenager character. and the mom character too. i feel like they could've done more with them tbh. they hardly feel like actual characters—the mom got more than her daughter, but the daughter is so stereotypically rebellious "i hate feminine stuff" teenager. so much of this movie feels like telling instead of showing. the mom feels undervalued and depressed and she's struggling. yeah, but so what? we don't actually SEE any of that. even if you can argue that the movie tries to tackle stiff happening IRL so it doesn't need to show any of that any more, that's just bull. you still have to establish the setting in your movie's universe and you still have to do actual character work for your characters even if they're meant to represent real people. ESPECIALLY if they're meant to represent real people. like yeah, we do get some flashbacks of her daughter not appreciating her near the start, but that's it. they're just flashes. and that wasn't her only problem that she mentioned. why didn't we have the mom try to pitch ideas to the executives early on, have that be her introduction scene? have the executives belittle her ideas bc they're misogynistic chauvinist asses? like yeah, from context clues of the whole boardroom being men we can see the irony there and we can tell they don't value women enough to give them positions that high up the ladder. but still, implying the lack of something is not as good as actually demonstrating the lack of something. i feel like it wouldn't have been that hard to include at least one scene of the mom pitching her ideas, and then cut to her scribbling sadly on the desk like she was when she was introduced cz they didn't listen to her.

the sentiment of "they hardly feel like actual characters" extends to the rest of the cast, too. like, i wouldn't expect something substantial and be disappointed if they weren't marketing themselves like "all barbies are important :) this is an ensemble movie :)" like no... not really. none of the other characters matter that much and they didn't get a lot of actual distinguishing features aside from their actual job titles. which just feels reductive lmao. maybe that's the point. maybe they're all just meant to be bit characters. but it just adds to the shallowness of the movie i feel like. just bc the point is they're bit characters doesn't give it a free pass for not going anywhere w any of them. i saw someone say they felt like all the other barbies and kens were mostly just there as set dressing and you know what? that's undeniably true. which AGAIN i maybe wouldn't have as much of a problem with if it weren't for how they marketed this movie.

the previous paragraph also ties into what i mentioned earlier abt the quip they had abt casting margot robbie (and by extension, ryan gosling) as the lead(s). like... why did the lead HAVE to be the "stereotypical barbie"? why did the white, blonde, presumably cishet* barbie (and ken) HAVE to be the leads? hell, the mom and daughter characters are women of color and they don't even do anything with them (aside from some jokes abt how the white dad sucks and is very inconsequential?). i'm just saying... it feels like the diversity casting (not just when it comes to being people of color but also in other areas, like having a barbie in a wheelchair and a pregnant "barbie" (even though she's not barbie) and whatnot) of the other barbies and kens was just that. Token Diversity. fodder for The Typical White Leads. idk. i'll say this again but if they didn't advertise themselves the way they did with all those barbie and ken posters making it sound like they were actually gonna give a shit about any of the other colorful cast of characters then maybe i wouldn't be this harsh with them. this didn't feel like an ensemble movie to me at all.

*(bc i don't think this movie was made with any genuine queer intentions behind it lmao. and ik people latch onto the aroace "coding" of the characters and like. if you're aroace and you like it then power to you. but i think this is more of a "technicality"/"by semantics" type of """coding""" so i honestly don't think it counts, speaking as someone who's some flavour of aroace)

idk i feel like I'M word vomiting now too. maybe i'm picking on this movie too much. but tbh it's just. eh. it just feels shallow. it's a shallow nothing movie tbh. it just feels like a movie filled with quips without any interest in exploring any of the topics they bring up. i wanna list specific examples but tbh it's hard to remember them because of just how overloaded it is, like they just keep shooting talking points at you but there's no meat to any of them. i wouldn't be this harsh on this movie if it didn't hype itself up so much. like, i WANTED to like it coming it. i WAS excited for it ever since it was announced, even though i wasn't a super fan and wasn't buzzing about it as much as most people were online. because it had a lot of potential behind it, but it ended up just. being a mess.

📌 i think it's funny that the ending (as in the last scene of the movie) left most people confused, but the most interesting thing abt it is the takeaway i got from my cis mlm cousin where he's like, "oh barbie chose to be a mother at the end and she's pregnant and that's why she ended up at the gynecologist". like. I Guess??? that can be your take??? but it's a weird scene to end your movie on.

like idk what i'm supposed to feel about it. she's a real human now because she has genitalia?? the genitalia was the last crowning step for her to achieve the "human" status? that's kind of reductive. she's a real woman now because she has a vagina?? that's just straight up transphobic. like. what am i supposed to get as my takeaway here with the last scene??

#guys i tried REALLY HARD to like this movie while i was watching it but i haven't felt this disappointed at a movie in a long while #and i didn't even come in with any expectations really. i just expected it to be ABOUT something and be insightful in some way bc of how #it marketed itself. hashtag feminism #op #barbie movie spoilers #barbie 2023 spoilers #barbieposting

[trolliworms]

Can we all take a moment of silence for that one Ken who was trying to revive his stick horse via mouth to mouth? I hope it made it.

#barbie #barbieposting #ken #that movie was literally so good #all hail Greta Gerwig my queen my idol

[dracomysthical]

the complexity of feminism in Barbie (2023) is just *mwah* chef’s kiss

residents of barbieland thinking barbie fixed everything. barbie near-immediately being sexualized and objectified in the real world. teenage girls thinking barbie is horribly misogynistic and supports the patriarchy. so many people on the Mattel board only valuing barbie due to consumerism. barbie thinking she can’t do anything and someone else will come and fix misogyny. barbies brainwashed into enjoying being subservient. barbie feeling like she isn’t enough. gloria telling her she is enough. gloria pointing out the difference between giving women equal treatment and “society claiming they have empowered women by actions they have already done to justify any possible misogynistic action in the future.” gloria saying how nothing women do ever satisfies the patriarchy. the movie itself acknowledging that the movie’s view on feminism is from a white perspective. THE MOVIE EMPHASIZING HOW FEMINISM ISN’T SUPPORTING A MATRIARCHAL IDEAL, IT’S GIVING ALL GENDERS EQUAL RIGHTS AND RIGHT TO IDENTITY. paralleling real world society by giving kens only a foothold in power like giving women only a foothold in power.

feminism isn’t a giant chunk of an idea that can easily be discredited into something as simple as “support women.” it’s a complex issue with individuals of different perspectives that deals with intersectionality and confronting completely new worlds in an attempt to understand others. long story short this movie is a masterpiece

#barbie #barbie spoilers #barbieposting

[itswhatyougive]

I was probably the only one to watch Barbie decide she wanted to be real and live in the real world and be like "girl, no you don't"

#barbieposting #barbie #barbie shitposting #the barbie movie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #i am unpopular opinions barbie #barbie spoilers

[bardass]

oh? my gender? yeah so im like if a barbie was a ken. or if a ken was a barbie. or if a barbie doll wasn't a barbie doll at all. hope this helps <3

#barbieposting #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 movie #barbie movie 2023 #barbie movie spoilers #gender #trans #transgender #barbie meme #ken #ken doll #barbie doll #gender meme #trans meme #meme #mine #text post #bardass posts #bardass speaks #barbie spoilers #nonbinary #non-binary #enby #genderfluid #genderqueer

[vividdreamsrock]

OMFG one of our music theater teachers at my school just preformed I’m just ken at the faculty concert, he was in a full hot pink sparkly ken fit and danced around the stage and everything I’m actually dying it was incredible

The prelude to this was one of our dance teachers doing a routine to a remix of the barbie song in full Margot Robbie barbie attire with the aforementioned musical theater teacher, still in ken costume of course, amazing! Absolutely stunning!

#barbie #barbieposting #barbie 2023

[myundeadgayson]

i think my 12-year-old self would be so pleased to know that there’s a movie for a well-known character breaking the 4th wall to come into our world and makes friends with OCs. like yeah, it’s Barbie and not some 90s anime, but i think they’d be happy:)

#barbieposting #guess who’s finally going to watch the Barbie movie???? #let’s gOOOOOO #barbie #barbie movie