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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought it was on point, OP.

Audiences may not have realized it, but the movie's entire goal is to show that Barbieland's matriarchy is just as stifling as the real world's patriarchy. That we have not yet found any way of living as equals, and may never do so. That some minority populations (Allan, weird Barbie, etc) will never find their place.

The conclusion is quite dark, actually, but because it's all wrapped in pink and smiles, a lot of people missed it.

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I found this so obvious and the fact so many missed the point just shows how ignorant most are.[/quote]

Yes!!!!!
I saw this movie with a girlfriend who has boys. My teen girls asked me what I thought—and I told them that, it was a fun movie that seemed to argue with itself ideologically.
In matriarchy-utopia, they literally had to distract the men to keep them from voting in order to vote the women into power. (News flash—plenty of men vote in the real world “patriarchy” annd their anre anctually lots of women in powerful elected offices AND in board rooms.)
Also Barbie and her friends were definitely “mean girls” in Barbieland. They do it with a smile and an oblivious attitude, but they still act as if the world revolves around them and they call the outcast “weird Barbie” and Alan is clearly ostracized from the cool Kens. Also she’s super-dismissive of doting Ken.—and this is okay to do to Ken, but objectionable when it’s done to her in “patriarchy real world?”

Also—the part where she goes to @real world” and the bit about how she expected to see only WOMEN at the construction site is laughable. Sure! In their Barbieland high heels?? (One of the main plots was that she was losing the ability to stand in her high heels…so somethjng was “wrong” in Barbieland.)
Just found most of it super cynical but comically so.
And then it occurred to me later that it was supposed to be.
It was supposed to be pointing out that neither is ideal.
That men and women actually need each other to create the symbiotic relationship required to make society work.
And I completely agree that making this clear was rhea Pearlman’s role in her long, long, walking ethereal God-like conversation with Barbie—but it was a weird ending…
And kind of ignored.

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