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The Barbie Roast

An overdue upload

We talked about the film Barbie several weeks ago but then I forgot to upload it. I am currently on my way to the Genspect conference, so no harm done. Here are two posts that I wrote about the film. We will have fresher content next week. In fact, we have interviewed gay liberation legend Fred Sargent, so you won’t want to miss it. (Image via)

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Disconnection Barbie (Ken Sold Separately)

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August 1, 2023
Disconnection Barbie (Ken Sold Separately)

I did not hate Barbie. I sat with my mother and consumed a tub of popcorn and enjoyed myself. The last reel of the film is a bit didactic and self-absorbed and not as much fun as the rest. Yes, there is feminism. Yes, there is analysis. But this film is about girls, and how they live in a world half full of boys, in which time destroys beauty and the li…

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Barbie's Battle of the Kens Is Liberal Feminism Trying and Failing to Tame the Warrior Male
“If the film has a serious weakness,” I wrote in a recent review published elsewhere of the strange summer hit Barbie, “it is [director Greta] Gerwig’s understanding of Kens.” In her film, “‘patriarchy’ is not really analyzed or explained so much as transmitted from the real world to Barbie-world by mere knowledge of its existence…
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