So I watched the Barbie movie. Don't ask me how I watched it but lets just say I do not support giving these people a single cent. With that being said, I have outlined my thoughts on it.

The movie begins in a female utopia where everyone is peaceful, there's no crime, everything is perfect and all the innovators and leaders are positions reserved for women. To go right off the bat here, this world really resembles a sort of fascist utopia. That might come off as strong but without taking into the consideration of the blatant genocidal rhetoric outlined in The Future is Female by Sally Miller Gearhart, you can't properly put into context the ideas that surround the themes of this movie of men being the scapegoat for all of society's problems and the idea that the future would be a paradise if women were in charge, and for the entirety of the movie this is seen as a paradise that is romanticized and idealized.

Barbie wakes up and has a bad morning with everything going wrong. When she discovers that her feet are flat, she seeks out Weird Barbie to explain to her what is happening, who offers to show her the truth of the world. She is sent off to the real world which is basically just a shitty unimaginative caricature of how feminists like to imagine the world operates. Ken who snuck in the back seat to join her begins walking on the beach with Barbie and everyone is admiring him and giving him respect while Barbie is getting stared at by everyone passing by, and at one point she gets blatantly sexually assaulted out in the open in front of a crowd of people. She punches the stranger then gets arrested, as if to imply that the legal system would actually favor the man over her. This horrible treatment causes her to break down and long to return to her nazi utopia.

Barbie and Ken split off so Barbie can investigate the vision of a girl she saw, and Ken starts learning about The Patriarchy and how he is supposedly advantaged in every way. Meanwhile the CEO of Barbie is informed that she has escaped her box and the character played by Will Ferrell is a typical bumbling idiot, as is really every male in this movie which I guess puts a dent in the whole supposed paradise of Barbie's nazi utopia. Barbie sees a random woman she doesn't know at all sitting on a bench and is completely mesmerized by her despite having absolutely nothing in common besides the fact that they happen to be the same gender. There's really no way to interpret this scene other than that Barbie just has an in group bias(oh apparently it's an illusion of her mother or some shit). She then finds a group of school girls who go off on a tangent about how Barbie is a dumb bimbo that conforms to The Patriarchy with the implication that girls are supposedly growing up thinking barbies are dumb. There's also the implication that The Patriarchy is why women exhibit queen bee syndrome and generally turn against each other, as if this would magically disappear and be non-existent in Barbie's nazi utopia, but this is all thwarted because of the mythical evil Patriarchy that doesn't actually exist.

Honestly the only half redeeming factor of this movie comes when Ken confronts Barbie about his fascination of a world where they are actually appreciated and aren't despised for their existence, but this just gets portrayed as Ken wanting to assert his dominance and brainwash the barbies. This outburst also serves as an interesting display of feminists at least on some level understanding that they are not welcomed and appreciated by the men who they claim that feminism is for, which is the start of an attempt to rebrand themselves because it's difficult to deflect from criticisms that feminists have a contempt for men when that is essentially what is espoused by all of their actions and ideas.

From here on out the rest of the movie is an attempt to give everyone a bit of everything so that everyone feels like they have a place, but this just reeks of a dysfunctional relationship where kens are made to feel like the source of society's problems and don't understand the conditions of their frustrations, and barbies standing up to the men who they scapegoat as being the source of all evil. The movie reaches its ending when Barbie undoes all the brainwashing of the other barbies and the kens band together and realize that they need each other, and Barbie pleads to The Patriarchy to allow women to have freedom while completely ignoring all the better more coherent reasons why women might have disadvantages that don't involve framing men as the masterminds behind it. Barbie leaves her nazi utopia and is sent to LA where everyone is happy.

All in all this movie is obviously a disappointment and doesn't provide any serious analysis of gender relations between men and women, it just brings out the worst elements of each gender and forces them to get along like a dysfunctional couple.