Is there a reason that grown men, mostly Republican, have a weird hatred of barbie? It is honestly is very pathetic.
She teaches little girls that women can be strong and independent and that scares the shit out of weak men.
It’s hilarious seeing grown men freaking out about Barbies like they’re 6yr olds that were just told they can only play with “action figures.”
If they’d go see the movie with an open mind they might get a fresh perspective and maybe even laugh a few times. I feel like little girls and these guys are who actually needs to watch it.
Misogyny. Barbie is about feminism. Feminism is about women having power and not being objects for men to control. Men hate this. Republicans support this oppression entirely.
Yea, Barbie used to have the message that women had to be a certain way, let’s not forget then”math is hard” Barbie. We didn’t let my daughter play with Barbies because the message used to be basically the same as the Kardashians (Be rich, Beautiful, and get a man). Weird how the movie basically changed the whole paradigm.
Yeah to an extent. The movie addresses that actually. Still has an overall message that Barbie is for girls first and not dependent on men or being a homemaker.
They’re secretly gay and are afraid that seeing feminine concepts and objects will make them slip up and do something fabulous, so they put their emotions in a box and CRUSH IT
To be fair, it’s only a very particular subset of grown men. For instance, I am a grown man, and I have no problem with Barbie stuff. In fact, I’m gonna go see the movie next week because I’ve heard it’s incredibly good. Weird reactions to stuff like this seems to always come from men who are members of hyperconservative and often theologically-oriented groups.
Yeah a lot of straight people tell me that all anti gay stuff comes from gays, I suspect these folk are also racist because they’re secretly black Mexican and the misogyny is because they’re actually women, they hate college professors because they secretly teach at Harvard and I guess they teach modern art because they hate that too normally…
Or maybe theyre just small minded fucks that hate anything that isn’t them because they’re insecure and weak minded
Aside from the typical misogyny this movie in particular makes some pointed criticisms of masculinity. They either don’t see that reactions like this makes their masculinity look very insecure, or they are aware that hatred sells to their audience better than fair level-headed reactions.
Basically, they’re angry because they’re turned on.
This is similar to Hasidic Jews or ultra conservative Muslim men freaking out at western women and blaming women for being unable to control themselves.
They also can’t stand to see women who are … you know… successful at anything other than being a housewife.
Faith so weak it can be jeopardised by a doll.
I’m convinced this is one of the reasons I love the color pink. I remember as a kid, my grandpa and occasionally my dad getting so insecure about the prospect of wearing/one of their boys wearing pink. Even at that age, I thought it was absurd that a man would be scared of a color. Ironically, that makes pink the most badass, punk-rock color, in my head.
Far too many grown-ass men care far too much about movies made for little girls.
And I’m not just talking about Barbie. Look at all the dudes frothing at the mouth over the live action The Little Mermaid and Snow White, and before that over the Netflix She-Ra.
They can’t stand the existence of movies implying that women are people too
Hey, I’m pissed at the Little Mermaid and Snow White, but that’s because I’m pissed at ALL the live action remakes. They’re unnecessary garbage, every last one of them. If they want new generations to enjoy the stories, restore/upgrade/remaster/etc. the originals and stop “vaulting” them.
And I don’t know anything about She-Ra. If it’s anything like the He-Man reboot, fuck yes, go for it.
Grown-ass men were mad the new She-Ra wasn’t “hot.” I wish I was making that up.
Considering Barbie was PG-13 it is very much not a movie “made for little kids”, which is the argument these people use to complain about it.
Spreading the word of Jesus, the gospel of anger and hate.
He was probably thinking of the bit where Jesus fashions an improvised weapon and attacks a heavily guarded economic centre because he didn’t agree with their politics.
Or the bit where he said he’s going to beat the fuck out of anyone that doesn’t follow him in exactly the right way, and keep torturing them while they beg to be allowed to die because the plagues and fire hurt too much.
He was using the same book that people have been interpreting to mean violence is a moral imperative for almost two thousand years, I know it’s fun to say he doesn’t follow Jesus but biblical Jesus was nuts if you go by the whole book and Christianity is a bloody and oppressive religion
wow what a manly specimen, destroying a toy for little girls