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A week ago, I wrote a post about the nascent anti-Barbie movie crusade, and I noted that it seemed oddly muted. Well, what a difference a week makes: with the movie actually out this weekend, the anti-Barbie forces have turned up the volume, denouncing the movie as “woke” feminazi garbage that pushes a not-very-secret LGBTQ agenda.
As is regularly the case with boycotts of movies, the boycotters and boycott organizers haven’t seen the film and basically don’t know anything about it. But that doesn’t stop them from tagging it as everything from a misandrist nightmare to a literally demonic attempt by leftists and alleged perverts to groom young girls.
So let’s take a look at some of the anti-Barbie propaganda.
Every single one of these tweets made me want to see the movie more. And I’m not the only one: the film is on track to take in as much as $150 million over its first weekend.
But my favorite anti-Barbie tweet has to be this one:
Remember that time seven years ago when the internet’s biggest doofuses ganged up on a Ghostbusters movie because all the main characters were women, and this was somehow destroying their childhood or something? Valliant Renegade remembers. And so do I. And so will you if you click here. Ah, memories!
Oh, and if all the chatter about doll-smashing in the tweets above has you curious, here’s the relevant clip from the film.
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“we love and care about our children so much… now do your fucking chores before I beat the shit out of you!!!” /s
@Raging Bee: If there ever is a Lego Barbie movie, there better be an Oppenheimer minifig brooding in a scene where everyone else is all bouncy.
GSS: Of course! And he’d be imagining lego-mushroom-clouds and plastic faces melting in searing bright light!
@Raging Bee: The peppy music would record-scratch to a halt, and the rest of the figs would look bummed out before going back into the song.
I want to see this movie.
Lady Gaga looks like a…nah, not a drag queen, certainly! /s
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Let’s hope her acting is not monolithic ?
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Baa boom tish.
And now, Trae Crowder’s $0.02 on the Barbie Movie. (To the big brothers of little sisters out there: is prurient Barbie-snatching something boys actually do?)
Hey y’all, just in case anyone is still following this thread, here’s a very long and interesting article, in the New Yorker, about the whole Barbie phenomenon, titled “Why Barbie Must Be Punished”:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-barbie-must-be-punished?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Still reading it, but so far it’s quite interesting, and about REAL people’s Barbie-centered attitudes and fears, not the imaginary rubbish the loony-right are screaming about.
@RB: Excellent article, thanks for posting it.
We will share popcorn at the Lego Barbie movie and applaud “Apocalyptic Ken”.
To whoever introduced the concept into this thread:
“Apocalypse Ken” could easily describe the male protagonists of the “Divergent” & “Hunger Games” books/films.
man, these people seem like they’d be REAL fun at parties……