BARBIE SPOILERS

djo for russh magazine — february 2025

The Barbie movie isn't about girl power. It's not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It's about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don't have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)

Barbie was fun and goofy and light hearted AND ALSO existential and devastating and humanistic.

You can be all of those things.

That was the living embodiment of the movie's core values, actually!!

Barbie, like womanhood, is made of many contradictory, complex things.

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Okay I don't have the spoons for an in-depth essay about the Barbie movie so here's my loose thoughts:

The transition from despising Barbie, not for the idea she represents but the ideas that are forced upon her to being a fierce supporter of Barbie is such the quintessential teenage experience.

The beauty of human creativity, how our ideas can change and grow and become even more than we could have imagined.

The themes of motherhood and its beauties and hardships

The depression Barbie came for everyone's necks?? I just know that's getting a meme 😭

I love that Ken had a character arc too, going from an accessory to a perpetrator of the patriarchy. Then unlearning misogyny as he realizes, when he places his value in himself, in his being instead of Barbie's, the fragility of his ego goes away. Great message!

Weird Barbie becoming more butch and the Sugar's Daddy and Magic Earring Kens living in her weird house, I know what yall are 😏

The mom was so me every time she freaked out about understanding the references of the different Barbies.

I loved the dismantling the Barbieland patriarchy scene, especially the jokes about the Godfather 😭

Will Ferrell's character was so goofy, I loved that he wasn't super evil, just a weird guy.

The overall idea of how wonderful it is to be human! The growth, change, joy, sadness, the existentialism! It's all so wonderful, it's all new every day all day. It really gave me a renewed sense of being :,)

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i think the writers forgot who the hell these characters are... s4 ep5 does not exist to me. i can't even watch it. i feel like bursting into tears.

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