Mary Dvorsky – Google

This movie is empowering and truthful for women. Instead of just having some reviews that the movie just wasn't for them, we have hate filled comments from people who seem to not even have watched the film, and only watched Ben Shapiro's review (if you can call it that) complaining that he was not the intended audience, and that the movie was "too political because there is a black female president" in Barbieland. The fact that he thinks the idea of a black female in power has to be political speaks enough irony on it's own. Why not just let us have a movie that speaks to us and was intended for us instead of getting offended at something that is not even about you? Both women and secure men seem to enjoy this movie. I've heard people say it's too real and not light hearted enough; well unfortunately neither is being a female in our society often times. If you are upset that this movie portrays the sad world of sexism, well then get sadder because that's the reality for us women. Yes, men, women, everyone experiences issues in our world, but this movie is literally called Barbie and is about a doll that little girls around the world grew up with, so why are you crying "me too"? Who goes to a girl doll movie and cries that men have problems too? Are you sad that Ken is a goofy non perfect male character? Ryan Gosling is literally portraying a doll that was made as an accessory to Barbie. Guess what? Back when Barbie was created, women were real life accessories to men. Barbies were made to prove that women didn't have to be accessories, and that we could be anything we wanted to be. Even more ironically, this movie sends a message about needed a balance between genders in our worlds. The way Ken looks at the real world where men are in power is the way that girls look at Barbieland. The only difference is one is a reality. In the end of the movie they say that Kens will have as much power in Barbieland that women do in the real world. If that offends you then you must believe it's true that we don't have fair power, because otherwise it would mean it was 50/50 for Barbies and Kens, no? I think it's fair that there have only been female presidents in Barbieland, as we still wait for the day for one of our own to step into power. This movie just reinstates the fact that men rule in the real world and Barbie dolls rule in an imaginary world, yet apparently even the fact that we have power in our imagination in a movie is too offensive and scary to these misogynists.