all of ryan gosling's comments about "telling ken's story" are really interesting and even funnier now that i've seen the movie. yeah ken is ridiculous but his feelings and sentiments are really similar to ones of seen from boys who are starting to enter that alt-right/incel pipeline. feeling abandoned and useless without a woman and turning that hurt into anger at women!! ken's story did get told and it's a story that i don't think we acknowledge enough

“Our mothers stand still so that we can look back and see how far we’ve come.”

Absolutely lost my shit and started bawling at the end of Barbie.

What a wonderful, fun, inspiring film. I laughed (a lot). I cried (unexpectedly). Was it heavy-handed with the messaging regarding feminism and the patriarchy? Yes.

In the most necessary way.

We needed this.

Bravo.

Proud to admit I cried at the Barbie movie ending. The symbolism of creation, our place in the world and purpose, and deciding even if you don't know the answer you get to choose your own destiny got me. As did the themes of being girls, sisterhood, motherhood, and daughterhood.

What it means to be women. Through the perspective of women. Themes of how a woman created Barbie, how women create life and choose to fight so their daughters can have a better tomorrow.

The themes of humanity, the beauty of it.

summer 2023 is having an existential crisis at the barbie movie while wearing a silly little girlypop outfit

I would like to be the first person to congratulate Barbie on her bottom surgery

honestly not even surprised that it was Stereotype Barbie who was enlightened. because she’s a stereotype. stereotypes are basic, flat, reductive. making margot’s barbie not even have a specified job, to not even be a leader in any capacity, is brilliant because she has all that space to grow into a full person from her own self-made stereotype, from how she first thought of herself, while also recognizing she doesn’t have to be a prodigy or trendsetter or a world changer to be considered worthy of being alive.

If Mattel doesn’t actually make and sell the Depression Barbie™ they are missing out on a golden opportunity

the barbie movie ends on literally one of the best lines of dialogue ever written.

The beauty of humanity lingering from the previous gut punch of a scene mixed with the harsh reality of being a woman as a final punchline? Greta you fucking icon

PRAYING that barbie sweeps the oscars not because i have anything against oppenheimer but because one of the few joys in life is seeing film bros melt down when movies primarily made for women are lauded as serious and important works