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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone bummed they didn’t get together in the end?

I think they missed an opportunity for Barbie to realize how self-centered she was in terms of taking Ken for granted. [/quote]

No, not at all bummed. “True love” isn’t the only answer to having a fulfilling life. [b]Ken was an abusive stalker.[/b] He shouldn’t be rewarded for that. Barbie should have apologized and did, but she doesn’t owe him a relationship. [/quote]

Huh? He was just an airhead dud.[/quote]

And Barbie was a valid, self-centered, materialistic twit who completely lacked any awareness. But she seemingly grew throughout the movie…so why couldn’t his character grow? [/quote]

He can, and did, I think. Doesn’t mean she should be his girlfriend. [/quote]

+1. My daughter had a very good male friend who started seeing her as more than a friend about 6 months ago. She was honest with him that she did not return the feelings and they stayed very close. Recently he blew up at her and ended their friendship because (I kid you not) “she should have changed her mind by now.”

No one owes another person romantic feelings, even if that person is a wonderful friend. I think it was really important they didn’t get together and for Ken to understand that simply being someone’s friend or liking them obligated them to one day feel more. [/quote]

I had a male best friend for six years who did the same thing. Doesn’t make him abusive. He was in love with me. He dated other women but  always hoped I’d change my mind. He got pretty upset with me one night. It was pretty upsetting. And he was angry but he wasn’t harmful to me.

Life went on and we married other people. He’s a wonderful person and father of three. Not an abusive jerk.

I’ve been happily married 16 years. My husband and I saw Barbie together. We felt pretty sad that they chose for Barbie and Ken to not end up together. Felt like it it was a missed moment to show how men and women can develop understanding and evolve together.

Not really surprising though. This was made by Gerwig and Baumbach. I generally find both of their movies and takes on romantic relationships insufferable. [/quote]

Putting Barbie and Ken together would have ruined the entire movie. Barbie was adamant that she did not feel that way about Ken. Honestly he probably only had feelings for her because he based his whole "life" on her. Idk, I really hate when movies feel the need to force a relationship as if the only happy ending is a partnered one. This seems a very old fashioned way of thinking that women need a man. Maybe Barbie is gay... she did like having girls night every night ;) 
 Barbie got her happy ending and Ken probably got his own in Barbieland. [/quote]

Agreed. They were barely friends. No need for her to abruptly love him. [/quote]

He was a hilarious character, but clearly the embodiment of how girls play with dolls.  Ken gets thrown in the box with the Breyer horses 90% of the time.  Barbie may be a caricature but at least the girls are invested in her and draw her out.  Ken isn't an equal he's an accessory (and a low value one).  Nothing wrong with little girls inhabiting that reality, so of course Barbie doesn't take him.  As a girl emerges from that world, no need for baggage.  At the middle school in the real world, there are also no guys (with lines).[/quote]

LOL When I was a kid and playing with a friend, her mom would make her little brother play with us. So she'd give him Ken, tell him Ken is going camping, take him to the backyard. So we could keep doing what we wanted with Barbies aka the main characters.[/quote]

OK that's hilarious. 
There's probably a Ken in Barbie land not "Beaching" and out in the woods somewhere. [/quote]

LOL his job is "camp"[/quote]
I love this. The whole camp vibe was so much fun.[/quote]

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