'‘I’m not a misogynist,’ they’ll say. ‘I’m not a racist,’ as if this is about personality traits, rather than systems and social structures.'
rich and multi-layered script gives us the opportunity to explore a wide range of topics. Of course, most analysis and commentary about the film focuses—like the movie itself—on the lives of women and their subordinate economic and social position in patriarchy.
For men who are willing to listen and learn, one of the first questions they might consider asking women is why the film resonates so strongly with them. This includeswho were initially skeptical because of Barbie’s identification with traditional femininity, but many who were nonetheless moved by the film. Men who have the self-confidence, curiosity, and/or relational skill to ask women these sorts of questions might learn a lot from the answers they get.
But it gets complicated: Not all men benefit equally—or at all. Multitudes of men lose out because they’re not “man enough” to be respected by the dominant culture, or they don’t belong to the most powerful ethnic/racial group, or because they occupy marginalized gender/sex identities. One of the dirty little secrets of patriarchy is that not only does it exclude and punish women; but it also harms men who don’t meet the very narrow definitions of “manhood” that are most favored.
, as red was seen as the color of passion and aggression, a “masculine” color. Pink was the boys’ version.movie’s conservative anti-feminist critics—who often mock the idea that gender is a social construct—know any of this? Some of the storylines surrounding Ken mirror some of the many themes explored in profeminist men’s studies, including:Ken’s struggle to “man up” by adopting a version of patriarchal masculinity—gleaned from his time in the “Real World”—as a solution to Barbie’s rejection of him; and
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