Iceman about Maverick:
Gay people never flirt normally it always gotta be shit like this:
Mav sends variations on this to Ice every other week and the gag never gets old
general knowledge, sir
no, ok, but you KNOW that mav and goose make all of the shitty military jokes they can, and that it pisses the hell out of the people around them
slider, annoyed: everyone knows that, it’s like general knowledge!
goose and mav, not looking up: general knowledge *salutes*
slider: …
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carole: it’s really a major buzzkill, isn’t it?
goose, next to her: major buzzkill *salutes*
*crash from the kitchen*
maverick, a second late: major buzzkill!
carole, glaring at her husband: stop that
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ice, sighing: that’s the general idea.
maverick, snickering quietly: general idea *salutes*
ice:
ice: will you cut that shit out
I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.
Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.
That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.
And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.
Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.
This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited
floydsin
need me some friends who look at me like this when i slay
a mother and her children
