Some Barbie Observations From A Fat, White, Entitled Middle-Aged Guy

What can or did I learn?

I guess before we get into this, you should know that I generally watch more female-centric stuff than male-centric stuff. I saw The House Bunny, if you’re familiar with that particular film, by myself on a Saturday morning once. I have seen all the Twilight movies, including two of those solo. So, yea, I’m into some chick stuff.

I saw Barbie over the weekend. I did not see Oppenheimer, although I eventually plan to. Maybe next weekend. Heat waves are good for something (and that something is not the end of society as we know it, although that might be another something they’re good for).

Alright, so generic Barbie observations:

This movie is not “woke.” There is some big argument in the culture war sphere that the movie is “woke” because it contains one transgender model — they play a doctor Barbie — and because some map within it acknowledges some thing related to China? I couldn’t follow the latter logic. The movie is not woke at all. It’s basically a corporate movie (Mattel was heavily involved in its production) that they handed to an “artiste” (Greta Gerwig, with help from her partner Noah Baumbach) and tried to make some societal points within, often in a tongue-in-cheek way. It is not “woke,” and…