Greta Gerwig, the brain behind the new Barbie movie, considers herself a feminist, but…
But this movie is also dealing with [the idea that] any kind of hierarchical power structure that moves in any direction isn’t so great. You go to Mattel and it is really like, “Oh, Barbie has been president since 1991. Barbie had gone to the moon before women could get credit cards.” We kind of extrapolated out from that that Barbieland is this reversed world [where Barbies rule and Kens are an underclass]. The reverse structure of whatever Barbieland is, is almost like Planet of the Apes. You can see how unfair this is for the Kens because it’s totally unsustainable.
“Oh, Barbie has been president since 1991.”
Interesting temporal coincidence.
“Now that our only competition has kicked the bucket, we can just drop the mask completely now. What’s the worst that could happen?”
Wow, did you know that something so currently mundane was de facto illegal until the federal government stepped into the States to regulate the interstate commerce of a woman having a credit card from the bank down the street with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974? I for sure didn’t know that. It really focuses the mind on just how new and novel all of this woman stuff really is. I wonder how much longer it will last.
“It really focuses the mind on just how new and novel all of this woman stuff really is. I wonder how much longer it will last.”
WHEN CREDIT MONEY GOES, FEMINISM GOES.
And the backlash will make the Taliban look like kittens.