I just don’t understand why people don’t see that the Barbie movie is a satire… we are not Barbie/Ken, Barbie/Ken are the unattainable standards we believe as children could exist… (I cherished my few curly brown haired dolls, mostly black dolls, because I already felt alienated by blondeness as a hispanic minnesotan surrounded by scandinavians)… we get upset when our perfect selves don’t emerge from our pubertal cocoon, girls generally blame the self while men blame society or women & girls. Margot Robbie Barbie character = the consciousness of a girl, who has grown up being told she is equal to a boy but not shown it, self-actualizing and for the first time asking not “will i become a woman?” but “will i become a human?” (hence the anatomical references). like sorry but if you watched the movie and missed this then idk. the metaphor was so clear to me. it’s Toy Story but with female class consciousness. why should i care if it’s an ad? everything’s an ad, social justice itself now contains ads, Oppenheimer is an ad for feeling bad for men for deciding to kill people. (just look up the conservative criticisms of Barbie’s opening scene if you want- they are FURIOUS that this suggests girls/women don’t enjoy traditional housewife roles!) forgive me if i feel good about being female and glad to process the binary consumerism of my 90s/00s childhood, I spent ages 14-24 literally convinced I was male and trying, and failing dramatically, to gain a scrap of male privilege!