Bethany BlackAug 11, 2023
I can understand why some men got so angry at the Barbie movie, she undermines their whole worldview when she tells Ken “you are not the car that you drive, you are not the contents of your wallet” nope, that was Tyler Durden in Fight Club. No she says “you are not your girlfriend, you are not your house”. Both movies have the same message about toxic masculinity
Show threadBethany BlackAug 11, 2023
Most people who love that feminist classic Fight Club seem to have forgotten the second hour of the film, where all the lost men replace their life as a mindless automaton in a system designed to repress them, with life as a mindless automaton in a system designed to repress them by a charismatic leader, where the main character literally has to kill the toxic man that he has become.
Both Fight Club and Barbie make the point that patriarchy is terrible for men.
Show threadProfezzor_von_ZodAug 11, 2023
@BethanyBlack People are dumb. To this day, there are people that read "You should join the military!" out of Starship Troopers. Which is, like, the complete opposite take.
Show threadBethany BlackAug 11, 2023
@ProfezzorDarke yep, oppositional decoding is a well known phenomena in all media
Show threadMarta Threadbare
@BethanyBlack @ProfezzorDarke Starship Troopers is really weird to misinterpret. The last minutes are basically the director yelling at the audience "these weren't even real events in the universe of the movie, just a shitty propaganda film for recruiting more cannon fodder".
Aug 11, 2023 at 12:02pmWeb
Show threadProfezzor_von_ZodAug 11, 2023
@cygnathreadbare @BethanyBlack See, this is why text interpretation is so important in school...