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My brother thought that Barbie’s crisis about not being good enough for anything came out of left field, that it was arbitrary and baseless, and I understand what he meant, but I also think that that was the point.

Little girls are so confident and bold and happy, so willing to try and be seen and heard, and then at some point while they’re growing up, they lose their vivacity. Usually when they turn twelve or thirteen. And it doesn’t matter how pretty they are, how intelligent they are, how talented they are, they lose sight of themselves, of their worth. It is abrupt, and confusing, and it is difficult to pinpoint when it starts and why it starts. Nobody can make sense of it because it is senseless, because these girls are always enough.

I’ve seen this happen to so many wonderful girls and I will continue seeing it happen to wonderful girls for the rest of my life.

If I had a dollar for every time a fued has culminated in a homo-erotic dance number this week, I'd have two dollars, which isn't alot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

can you believe that the main thing about the Barbie movie (2023) is kindness.

Ruth’s ghost offering a moment of reprieve for Barbie. Gloria saving Barbie. Barbie offering to show her and her daughter barbieland. Weird barbie getting barbie out of the mojo dojo casa house whatever it’s called. Allan seeing trouble and helping Gloria and Sasha without a second thought. Gloria and Sasha returning to help barbie. Barbie apologizing to ken. Ruth giving barbie the choice. Gloria and her husband and Sasha accompanying barbie to the gynecologist.

Everything friend and ally made and reconciliation in this movie is about being kind and learning to be kind to others. and while that seems like such an obvious thing “how do you make friends if you’re not kind to them” it’s not obvious to be kind. it’s not obvious to barbie that being nice to ken while disregarding his feelings isn’t being kind to him. it’s not obvious that weird barbie was a kind person who’s willing to help everyone who comes to her with problems. it wasn’t obvious to sasha that she actually wanted to help barbie instead of abandoning her.

realizing how to be kind and knowing what kindness is is such an important thing. and barbie 2023 really said this is the way you treat others, despite everything. this is the way you treat yourself. i love this movie so much

Ben Shapiro cosplays Ken at Barbie premier

I need everyone who said that Ryan Gosling shouldn’t have been cast as Ken to send me a 10 page (at MINIUM) apology letter and he also needs a Grammy and an Oscar

This was THE scene!! The way Barbie was afraid of being perceived as “ugly” and trying to avoid aging just for her to see people in the real world and understand what it really means. The way she softly says “you’re beautiful” and the woman plays along with her by saying “I know”. The way it was her first good experience with someone in the real world. Everything about it was just perfect

is anyone actually surprised that they tried to cut one of the best (if not the best) and most significant scenes of the whole movie (x)

Thinking about Weird Barbie and how she's the very obviously queer outsider of the Barbie world, she straddles the lines between Barbie and the Real World. She's the most aware of the performative nature of it all. She supports Barbie while also gently mocking her panic at losing the hyperfeminine perfection. Her weird house is also home to the discontinued reject weird Barbies, the outcasts (including very gay earring Ken) who never fell into either the original matriarchy or the Kentriarchy brainwashing.

The other more classically heteronormative and beautiful Barbies both pity and fear her, and at first the narrative pities her as well. She's the vessel of girls going weird and crazy and feral on their dolls and that's amazing. Weird Barbie is aware of who she is and how the world sees her and she loves it. She's Weird Barbie and She Owns It.

The Ken dance is so magnificent because it’s reminiscent of the Golden Age of Musicals when there would just be artful dance sequences for no reason other than the director wanted to have one.

all of ryan gosling's comments about "telling ken's story" are really interesting and even funnier now that i've seen the movie. yeah ken is ridiculous but his feelings and sentiments are really similar to ones of seen from boys who are starting to enter that alt-right/incel pipeline. feeling abandoned and useless without a woman and turning that hurt into anger at women!! ken's story did get told and it's a story that i don't think we acknowledge enough

Things i did not expect going into the barbie movie

Anyway this is the best movie ever made please go see it

go watch Barbie

PRAYING that barbie sweeps the oscars not because i have anything against oppenheimer but because one of the few joys in life is seeing film bros melt down when movies primarily made for women are lauded as serious and important works

the fact that the first female human experience barbie goes through is being self conscious and experiencing sexual harassment mirrors how growing up as a girl one day you’re okay and the next all of a sudden you feel bad about your appearance and are receiving unwanted advances is something that can be so fucking important to be recognized in film

the thing that gets me about the barbie movie being framed as an "anti-men" movie is that it's fundamentally untrue to the message it's sending out. the movie is an empowering feminist piece as much as it is a cautionary tale about men letting their insecurities and doubts about their place in the world lead them to falling into the alt-right/incel/mra pipeline. it's looking out for men just as much as it's looking out for women, and the only reason you might find this as an "anti-men" message is because you somehow deeply believe that this is the wrong message to send

what was i made for?

“ophelia” by john everett millais but it’s barbie and for the sake of this concept let’s pretend that there is in fact water in barbieland

I love how with seemingly every new episode, Juice just commits to how utterly terrible Steeplechase is. Like, the concept of Old Kiddadelphia (and even, to a lesser extent, New Kiddadelphia) is just fucked up.

anyone remember when hannibal got on the witness stand and was like wills been and always will be my friend the lawyers should have been like motion to dismiss this testimony hes quoting star trek up here

Putting baby powder on your thighs to help chaffing call that "talcum in the middle"

george and elaine were the original haters. kramer was not a hater he was a pioneer - some people will try to tell you jerry was also a hater but they’re wrong. jerry was a poser. he was a hater in private, which is the worst kind of hater - no backbone. he would nod understandingly at george and elaine’s woes but he would secretly be hating on their hate. too much shame in his game. elaine and george would hate publicly, with their whole chests, ESPECIALLY on each other, that’s how you know it was real