I can understand why some men got so angry at the Barbie movie, she undermines their whole worldview when she tells Ken “you are not the car that you drive, you are not the contents of your wallet” nope, that was Tyler Durden in Fight Club. No she says “you are not your girlfriend, you are not your house”. Both movies have the same message about toxic masculinity
@BethanyBlack genuine 10/10 take, it is as correct as it is going to *incense* the people who deserve to be incensed by it
@stavvers been thinking about it a lot and there are so many parallels, Project Mayhem is pretty much the same as the Barbies’ plan. I’m prepared to say if you liked Fight Club and didn’t like Barbie then you didn’t understand Fight Club
@BethanyBlack @stavvers I would really like to see those as a double feature. Barbie Fight Club! 100% serious.
@mjibrower @BethanyBlack @stavvers Except no one would ever be able to tell anyone about it...
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I know far too many men that unironically idolize Tyler and completely missed the point of that movie.
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@GrayGooGirl @BethanyBlack @stavvers A Tyler Durden pfp is a red flag that can be seen from space.
@GrayGooGirl @BethanyBlack @stavvers right wingers media literacy competency challenge (impossible)
@GrayGooGirl This. Precisely. And they are not able to do that with Barbie, I assume.
@feministmom @BethanyBlack @stavvers I'd bet anything there was a meeting where some film execs actually tried to pitch a Ken sequel.
@BethanyBlack @stavvers you’ve convinced me to that I must check out the barbie movie, which I was planning to ignore because something something capitalism.
@AlexanderMars the reason you were going to avoid it is a big thing they address in the movie
@BethanyBlack okay now I’m really curious, I guess it’s going to be interesting at what level my friends comprehend the subtext. The comparison to fight club hits very close to home, I have too many friends who took up MMA after watching it, and that’s not remotely what that movie/book was about. Don’t get me started on that one friend who still wants to start a soap company, I don’t have the bandwidth to unpack that.
@BethanyBlack sorry for this ridiculous deep cut reply, but I finally got to watch the Barbie movie(my daughter gives zero fucks about anything that’s not dinosaur related) and wanted to say I’m so glad for your recommendation to watch. A far better film than than what you’d expect Hollywood to deliver, particularly about a doll.
@BethanyBlack Fight Club is my second favorite movie ever. Now I’m even more stoked to see Barbie.
@LalaKron @BethanyBlack Barbie: Fight Club for Girls
Nothing against "Barbenheimer", but I would love to see this become the takeaway.
@BethanyBlack@mastodon.social @stavvers@masto.ai I haven’t seen Barbie yet but I know I’ll love it – if it has messages like “Blerks, you’re not your sporting achievements, you are not your educational accomplishments, and most of all – you are not what you fucking know, so stop trying to shoehorn what you know into the surrounding world thinking it’ll validate your and everyone will worship you”
…Ahem
We were talking about technology weren’t we? I’ve lost track
@BethanyBlack @stavvers I still think about my friend in college who quite sincerely explained to me that the message of Fight Club was that men really did need to go punch each other a lot to get back in touch with their natural masculine urges, and also maybe do some terrorism.
@fade @BethanyBlack @stavvers I saw about 3/4 of it and could never figure out why the camera was following any of these people.
Then again I usually feel the same way about football...