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The Barbie Movie is the Most Based Movie Ever Made
Malcolm and Simone have an in-depth discussion about the underlying messaging in the new Barbie movie. They analyze how the movie portrays feminism, gender dynamics, and societal roles.
Malcolm: [00:00:00] obviously big spoilers in this, in this talk through I think structurally every part of the movie was literally as based as could be first part of the movie women, they do not treat men with any respect. This is seen as a world created from the aspirations of women in our society. Second part of the world, they go to the real world. It turns out the patriarchy doesn't exist, except in high school bookstores. Keep in mind, they could have gone to any bookstore. Could have been a public library.
Malcolm: It could have been a college. It's a high school bookstore. Then They come back to this world, Ken convinces everyone voluntarily to join this new reality
Malcolm: when they run into people who have beliefs that are different from them, or a way of structuring their lives that is different from them, they immediately say, these people must have been brainwashed.
Malcolm: She goes over, she brainwashes them all by making them sad because they were happy in [00:01:00] patriarchy land.
Malcolm: They are now sad outside of patriarchy land, right? Like, that's the process of the brainwashing. And then they take power again by taking advantage of men's good nature and genuine care for them while they have genuinely no care for men. Then... It ends with them taking complete control again, making all the men homeless again, , the man decides, MGTOW, very clearly said, MGTOW is the only real pathway for men.
Malcolm: Then the main character gets this whole, what was I made for song? And it's having kids, playing with kids, being a part of kid's life. I couldn't see anything more men's rights than this movie, scene per scene. It's
Simone: pretty weird. But then why is it then that progressive audiences apparently think that it's a very feminist film?
Would you like to know more?
Simone: . So Malcolm, what the hell was going on with the Barbie [00:02:00] movie? Like,
Malcolm: yes, we just watched it yesterday. And unironically, it may be one of the most based movies I've ever seen. But from a very weird perspective, like, I think, I actually question this. I... I know from interviews that the person who wrote it did not intend for it to be, have an incredibly anti feminist message.
Simone: Yeah, I don't think it's intentionally anti feminist, for
Malcolm: sure. My read is that either somebody in the editing process or somebody that had... Ability to influence the scenes that were shown and like dialogue lines occasionally.
Simone: This is my take and I think I have the correct take which is that feminism as it is today is so inherently anti feminist that any true depiction of feminist stances and views and world views is going to show how toxic it is.
Simone: I think that's what it
Malcolm: is. Well, we can talk through the movie and obviously big [00:03:00] spoilers in this, in this talk through and, and the audience can decide and add in the comments. Whether they think there was any, like, saboteur on the team trying to make the movie have, and
Simone: I think Feminism is its own saboteur, Malcolm.
Simone: No, no. So
Malcolm: what's really interesting about it, it had a really cohesive anti feminist message. It wasn't like bits and pieces. It was like really sort of clever in the way it was done. So first we'll start with, so we'll just go through the various stages of the movie with everyone sort of telling its own anti feminist message.
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