Tiffany LiThe people freaking out about Barbie are right to freak out. In another age, Greta Gerwig’s messages about gender essentialism and patriarchy would’ve been subversive. Today, those progressive messages are *mainstream.*
Look at Barbie’s wild box office success and the raving critical and audience reviews. The people who are afraid of this movie are afraid—and angry—because they know they’ve lost. The world is moving on without them.
Laure@tiffanycli yes that’s why the backlash (fueled by people leveraging it)
John🥛@tiffanycli and the political powered world sees this and sprints away :(
Dark Horse@tiffanycli respectfully, Barbie doesn’t define who is and is not on the right side of history. Nor does American culture for that matter in a world of 8 billion people.