Janice Fiamengo: “Why Barbie Is Worth Seeing”

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2 thoughts on “Janice Fiamengo: “Why Barbie Is Worth Seeing”

  1. It is wholly understandable why this silly, phony, stupid, misandristic , predictable “Barbie” movie is a hit. It has everything women want: a silly plastic doll that they can live out their fantasies through, a phony “patriarchy” they can blame all their problems on and weak, malleable, pussywhipped men that they can manipulate, dominate and blame. Even with Tom and Janet’s recommendation I wouldn’t waste my hard-earned money or time on seeing this anti-male piece of crap!

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  2. “This aspect of the movie, by the way, is a striking illustration of the inability of the feminist mind to remember or even understand what men actually do: the risky, body-wearying and ingenuity-demanding work that feminists only rarely, if ever, advocate for women and which they are frequently hard-pressed even to name. ”
    A great review that gets to core of feminist appeal; a justification for everything to be about “me”. For if you are a “victim” then anything you want and do is justified. Because “you’re worth it”. And most importantly there are no expectations you will do anything for anyone else.
    Barbie Land exists as a fantasy (built by the supposedly idiotic patriarchal Mattel ) like a Disneyland without visitors. And like a theme park built and maintained by a huge largely invisible workforce. Or perhaps like the gilded aristocracy living in their grand piles in the country, dependent on an army of servants, tenant farmers, factories and mills in distant towns, rents from tenements or shares from trading companies.
    Appropriate then that Barbie Land, this dream of feminism, exists as a small sealed world built and maintained by unseen hands. Where the inmates spend their lives pretending.

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