Of Course We Change

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
twilight-zoned-out
twilight-zoned-out

Some things about Allan:

  • He’s the only one who reacts to the narrator
  • He’s the only doll (besides the Weird House) who isn’t swayed in some way by Ken’s takeover
    • He also declares himself as “Ken’s buddy" (making canon his official box description) which makes his inability to be swayed more interesting
  • He has bendable legs (probably the only reason he tries to jump the fence instead of going around like everyone else)
  • He easily decked a half-dozen construction Kens and could probably singlehandedly win the Ken fight
  • He seems to know more about the real world than most Barbies
    • He knows what NSYNC is 
    • He knows about other Allan copies living in the real world (I’m trying to figure out if he made this up to convince the humans he can live in the real world, but even if he did, how does he know what NSYNC is???)
  • There are no other Allan models
godcomplexmuch
godcomplexmuch

it is honestly insane how half the criticisms about the Barbie movie are that it's too feminist, and the other half that it's not feminist enough. add to that the film having an entire monologue about women not being ever able to win, because the patriarchy is full of contradictions and I'm convinced we're living in a TV programme.

do you see these hot takes about marvel? the Lego movie? the batman films?

... yeah

wonder why

beekneebabey
beekneebabey

I don't know how to say this intelligently but something is really bothering me about the reviews for the barbie movie complaining that she didn't go deeply enough into feminist critique? Like,,, it's the Barbie movie. It's not Feminist Theory 402. Also, it's a movie about how women are expected to be spectacular at everything they do and how exhausting it can be to be the representative for all women when you're just one of them and people really watched that and turned around to tell Greta Gerwig that the movie wasn't enough because it wasn't perfect?


It was heartfelt and funny and silly and hot pink and that is enough!! Where is the media literacy!! You all are legitimately hurting my heart with this trash take!! It's fine to not like the movie but how come movies about the "male experience" can be about SOME men but movies about women have to be the balm AND rage AND catharsis AND call to action for every woman ever??? It's the Barbie movie!!! Not Gloria Steinem's latest manifesto!!! Let it fucking be!!!

missdontcare-x
thepunkpanther

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But one is a stranger, a woman she notices while she sits on a bench, gathering herself. It’s a type of woman she has never seen before, because there are no old women in Barbieland. When Barbie looks at her, she finds her beautiful and tells her so. The woman already knows. Suddenly Barbie, the fraught aspirational figure, has beheld someone she might aspire to be, and it is a radiantly content nonagenarian, reading a newspaper on a Los Angeles bench, who knows what she’s worth.

“The idea of a loving God who’s a mother, a grandmother — who looks at you and says, ‘Honey, you’re doing OK’ — is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people,” Gerwig says. When it was suggested that this scene, which Gerwig calls a “transaction of grace,” might be cut for time, she remembers thinking: “If I cut that scene, I don’t know why I’m making this movie. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”