Barbie movie is about to be the biggest messaging backfire since Full Metal Jacket.

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I didn't really see any messaging in the movie. Barbie is for targeted for little girls and at that age they don't really like or have similar interest as little boys so having Ken be nothing more than an accessory makes since.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The Bud Light boycott gave right-wingers an inflated sense of how much influence their anti-woke outrage can have. Their reach obviously doesn't extend to dolls.

'Barbie' boycott calls grow among Republicans over movie's "woke messaging"

'Barbie,' 'Oppenheimer' Shatter Box Office Opening Weekend Projections - Variety
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I know lots of conservatives who boycotted and still boycott Budlight and all their other brands. I know conservatives that have purchased the Aldean song (unfortunately, because while I support his message I still think his music is terrible). I do not know a SINGLE conservative boycotting Barbie, most do not even know it exists. I only found out about it and watched it online just to see why all the younger conservative guys were raving about it. When I first heard about kids like my nephews soing the Barbenheimer thing.. I thought it was funny, but couldn't imagine barbie being anything but cringe..but then they'd say it was the better movie of the two, so I had to investigate.....and i found that to be accurate. Barbie is hilarious. It maybe meant to be (or at least sold as) a woman power, feminist take on modern society, but if anything it's an indictment on THOT and Woke culture, simps, and beta males. At first I thought the writers just were so cringe they accidentally proved the point, however in retrospect some of the lines are a little to spot on to be anything but on purpose. For instance when the Barbies who are the "men" in their world start lamenting what the Ken's (their thots) have done to them taken the house, poisoned friends and family etc....oh how many poor dudes and bretheren today that have been through divorces could identify... The more I think about it, i think the writers had some clever people who very thinly disguised scathing social criticism of woke culture. I don't think it was by accident entirely.

It's an excercise in Absurdism, and highlight's much of the insanity of modern culture, and manages to poke holes in most of the woke talking points. It's also funny, and full of hot chics....what's not to like? Except those permenantly sour joyless people on the left forever trying to out victim one another. Right now barbie is selling best in Red trump states....you can look it up.

That this thread literally summoned all the local simps and syncophants I think shows the memes strike a nerve....and that's awesome.

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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
I do not know a SINGLE conservative boycotting Barbie, most do not even know it exists.
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Just because you don't know them personally, doesn't mean they don't exist. Click on that first link. They not only exist, they are plentiful.

The fact you liked the movie underscores a main point here. Other Republicans might like it for the same reasons that you did, if they gave it a chance. Ted Cruz and his kind were passing judgment on it sight unseen. That is closed-mindedness.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I love the idea that we've devolved into arguing about which side is better at boycotting. Hilarious. I remember an ultra-brief period in history where the right claimed to be against cancel culture.
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The right is still very much against people being doxxed and harassed simply for voicing beliefs (you know... actual cancel culture). Refusing to buy from multi-billion dollar corporations is not the same as ginning up a mob to target people for societal cancellation. You know this, but your arguments no longer seem constrained by the responsibility of intellectual honesty.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Just because you don't know them personally, doesn't mean they don't exist. Click on that first link. They not only exist, they are plentiful.

The fact you liked the movie underscores a main point here. Other Republicans might like it for the same reasons that you did, if they gave it a chance. Ted Cruz and his kind were passing judgment on it sight unseen. That is closed-mindedness.
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The only conservative I happen to know making a big deal is Shapiro, and he’s never struck me as a true conservative so much as a neocon. I’m sure though some of his followers have parroted him as such people will do without investigating it themselves. Given his plastic nature, I can see why it struck a nerve with him to.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
sometimes, depends on the local boys in blue and how corrupt or honest they are.
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My view is boots are neither good nor evil, rather they can enforce good or the can enforce evil. It’s been my experience people who complain about boot licking the most are betas that could never wear a boot, and rally just hate ever being held accountable for their actions.
 
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According to National Review, it sounds like Greta Gerwig knew what she was doing and the message is not backfiring.

What it all appears to suggest is that Barbieland is not merely a superficial construct but an entirely satirical one: a kind of post-feminist satire of what feminists imagine a perfect world looking like and of what they imagine male dominance is like. Plato had a city in speech; Gerwig has given us a city in plastic.

Conservatives Are Getting Barbie Wrong | National Review
 
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n_huffhines said:
According to National Review, it sounds like Greta Gerwig knew what she was doing and the message is not backfiring.

What it all appears to suggest is that Barbieland is not merely a superficial construct but an entirely satirical one: a kind of post-feminist satire of what feminists imagine a perfect world looking like and of what they imagine male dominance is like. Plato had a city in speech; Gerwig has given us a city in plastic.

Conservatives Are Getting Barbie Wrong | National Review
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I can't believe we are at the point of writing political interpretation pieces on a Barbie movie
 
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Fox News Anchors Concerned This Wonder Woman Isn’t Wearing Her Star-Spangled Underwear

^^^^ When Fox News hosts were mad that Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) wasn't wearing her red, white and blue costume in trailers for the 2017 movie. If they had seen the movie first, they would have realized that it was her origin story. Diana was a Princess of the Amazons who lived a sheltered life. An American themed costume would not have made any sense. At that point in the character's development, she didn't even know what the United States was. Fox News was being judgmental ... sight unseen.

Sometimes, it's just fun to bellyache.

"Her outfit isn't red, white and blue, and in order to appeal to foreign audiences very little reference to America at all." - Neil Cavuto
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Fox News Anchors Concerned This Wonder Woman Isn’t Wearing Her Star-Spangled Underwear

^^^^ When Fox News hosts were mad that Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) wasn't wearing her red, white and blue costume in trailers for the 2017 movie. If they had seen the movie first, they would have realized that it was her origin story. Diana was a Princess of the Amazons who lived a sheltered life. An American themed costume would not have made any sense. At that point in the character's development, she didn't even know what the United States was. Fox News was being judgmental ... sight unseen.

Sometimes, it's just fun to bellyache.

"Her outfit isn't red, white and blue, and in order to appeal to foreign audiences very little reference to America at all." - Neil Cavuto
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You sure do have a lot of fun.
 
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