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"Barbie's not supposed to be aspirational"

Barbie went to the moon before anyone else.

The moon landing was 1969.

Barbie went to the moon in 1965.

A decade before women could own credit cards in the US.

She has had over 200 careers from fashion designer to software engineer.

Barbie was the first doll marketed to children that wasn't a baby doll.

Her first dream houses didn't have kitchens to show there was other things girls could be interested in.

Barbie was always meant to be aspirational.

To show little girls that they could be anything they wanted to be.

And I for one will not stand for this slander of Barbara Millicent Roberts.

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

NCUTI GATWA on the set of "Barbie"

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden ,1952

Linus Quotes

sending "?" to represent myself tilting my head like a dog

The Barbie Movie is the movie of all time for many reasons, but the core message being "Perfoming gender roles hurts everyone, you should be your authentic self no matter what society says" really knocked it out of the park

Barbie 🤝 The Lego Movie

A toy begins to question the nature of their initially seemingly-perfect reality and must travel to the real world to heal the rift between a parent and child and also Will Ferrell is there.

Barbie movie never said "we need to stop men" it said "we need to stop toxic masculinity" and if that made you feel called out I got some news for you

It’s important to recognise that Barbie (2023) criticises both the patriarchy AND the matriarchy. Yes, the Ken’s are just accessories to the Barbies. Yes, they don’t have any say in the government they live under. That’s the point, you’re supposed to feel awful, you’re supposed to want the Kens to have their own agency, you’re supposed to want equality. The Barbie movie explicitly states that the way Barbie treats Ken is wrong, so much so that once he finds a safe space for his masculinity and individual identity he’s so excited to share it with the other Kens.

But they go overboard and replace a matriarchy with a patriarchy and now the same issue exists but in reverse. That’s the POINT!! THATS THE POINT!!! Barbie is not anti-men it’s pro equality PLEASE understand this

we have to be silly together it's an imperative i can't do this alone

MOXXIE AND MILLIE CONTINUE TO BE THE SUPERIOR COUPLE

The Hunger Games trilogy from Peeta’s perspective really is the most insane genie level wish fulfillment I’ve ever heard. He gets the love of his life, marries her, has babies with her, and in the process starts a revolution and it only cost him his leg, his sanity, and his whole family.

love is not as transient and conditional as some of you guys think it is. when people tell you they care about you, they don’t change their mind ten minutes later because you said something weird or annoying. the people that love you will still love you when you do things that upset them. love doesn’t instantly disappear like that

‘You weren’t supposed to be Spider-Man’ vs ‘Anyone can wear the mask’ of the first film

No you won’t ever be exactly the same again and that’s fine, actually.

I’m assuming you’re talking about the ‘died and came back different’ thing?

No, I’m talking about the mundane horror of existing as a human being.

Coriolanus Snow, age 18: Mockingjays are unnatural, and they creep me out. We should kill them all.

Coriolanus Snow, age 83: I fucking knew it

- Sejanus, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

the secret is knowing you're worth it and making all your decisions based around that