Obviously tens of millions have been having a great time with Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie, and relatively few have suffered from watching it. I was appalled by the misandry, of course, but what is my voice compared to the thundering pink multitudes? I am nothing, not even a worm, at most a speck of dust.
Konstantin Kisin, the British conservative guy, isn’t claiming that Barbie is making anyone miserable either. But he has written a Substack piece titled “Barbie: Misery as Only Feminism Can Deliver,” dated 8.7.23. Here’s a compressed version:
“It is said that hurt people hurt people. No statement could sum up the ideology of modern feminism better. And no movie does as good a job of illustrating this warped worldview than Barbie.
“If the poison pill of hyper-liberalism is to encourage us to see ourselves as atomized individuals, the liberal feminism of Hollywood depicted here is worse still.
“You’re not actually free to pursue your happiness by yourself, says Barbie, because you live in a world which is run by one of two competing gangs — the matriarchy or the patriarchy. Pick your champion.
“The modern feminist movement [sees] the relationship between men and women as one of competition.
“But, fear not, Barbie has a solution. When she returns to the Barbieland Ken has now ruined with his toxic masculinity. Barbie and her fellow plastic girlbosses work use the ego, hubris and stupidity of men against themselves.
“Once this humiliation is complete, men stop oppressing women and instead cry, talk about their feelings and do all the other things men need to do to be better. Because, as we all know, the way for men to be better is for them to be more like women. Because women are equal to men. And better too.
“In any case, having retaken Barbieland from the clutches of the patriarchy and rejected Ken’s quite reasonable suggestion that he and Barbie, i.e., men and women, are created to be together, Barbie is free to ride off into the sunset. Alone.”