The Barbie Movie is the Most Based Movie Ever Made

Malcolm and Simone have an in-depth discussion about the underlying messaging in the new Barbie movie. They analyze how the movie portrays feminism, gender dynamics, and societal roles.

Malcolm: [00:00:00] obviously big spoilers in this, in this talk through I think structurally every part of the movie was literally as based as could be first part of the movie women, they do not treat men with any respect. This is seen as a world created from the aspirations of women in our society. Second part of the world, they go to the real world. It turns out the patriarchy doesn't exist, except in high school bookstores. Keep in mind, they could have gone to any bookstore. Could have been a public library.

Malcolm: It could have been a college. It's a high school bookstore. Then They come back to this world, Ken convinces everyone voluntarily to join this new reality

Malcolm: when they run into people who have beliefs that are different from them, or a way of structuring their lives that is different from them, they immediately say, these people must have been brainwashed.

Malcolm: She goes over, she brainwashes them all by making them sad because they were happy in [00:01:00] patriarchy land.

Malcolm: They are now sad outside of patriarchy land, right? Like, that's the process of the brainwashing. And then they take power again by taking advantage of men's good nature and genuine care for them while they have genuinely no care for men. Then... It ends with them taking complete control again, making all the men homeless again, , the man decides, MGTOW, very clearly said, MGTOW is the only real pathway for men.

Malcolm: Then the main character gets this whole, what was I made for song? And it's having kids, playing with kids, being a part of kid's life. I couldn't see anything more men's rights than this movie, scene per scene. It's

Simone: pretty weird. But then why is it then that progressive audiences apparently think that it's a very feminist film?

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Simone: . So Malcolm, what the hell was going on with the Barbie [00:02:00] movie? Like,

Malcolm: yes, we just watched it yesterday. And unironically, it may be one of the most based movies I've ever seen. But from a very weird perspective, like, I think, I actually question this. I... I know from interviews that the person who wrote it did not intend for it to be, have an incredibly anti feminist message.

Simone: Yeah, I don't think it's intentionally anti feminist, for

Malcolm: sure. My read is that either somebody in the editing process or somebody that had... Ability to influence the scenes that were shown and like dialogue lines occasionally.

Simone: This is my take and I think I have the correct take which is that feminism as it is today is so inherently anti feminist that any true depiction of feminist stances and views and world views is going to show how toxic it is.

Simone: I think that's what it

Malcolm: is. Well, we can talk through the movie and obviously big [00:03:00] spoilers in this, in this talk through and, and the audience can decide and add in the comments. Whether they think there was any, like, saboteur on the team trying to make the movie have, and

Simone: I think Feminism is its own saboteur, Malcolm.

Simone: No, no. So

Malcolm: what's really interesting about it, it had a really cohesive anti feminist message. It wasn't like bits and pieces. It was like really sort of clever in the way it was done. So first we'll start with, so we'll just go through the various stages of the movie with everyone sort of telling its own anti feminist message.

Malcolm: Hmm. Okay. So it starts in Barbie world, right? And it's sort of made clear throughout the movie that this original iteration of Barbie world is the female utopia that both women dream of the women who live in our world dream of. And that the you know, woke corporations are fighting to create.

Simone: Yeah, like, Every [00:04:00] Night's Girls Night. And it's Barbie's Dream House, not Ken's Dream House.

Malcolm: Well, so, there was a few things. So, one, Every Night's Girls Night was funny because it's, it's true. Like, you hear it and you're like, Yeah, but there's many bars where every night is actually girls night and there's never, almost never guys nights at any of these places.

Malcolm: Like it just sort of

Simone: subtly shows, I don't know, isn't every night guys night at a gay bar?

Malcolm: No, no, no. So girls nights, a specific thing where girls drink free at a bar. You've never been to a bar, so you don't know what I'm talking about. You've literally never been to a bar, so you literally have no idea what the humor in that joke is in Barbie world.

Malcolm: They say that as if it's some like. Comical great thing for women yet. It's reflected in the real world where every night is also girls night. And by real

Simone: world, we mean real world. And like, actually not in the movie. Cause there's

Malcolm: actually in our world and what it shows is our world is already so [00:05:00] comically feminist that it parallels.

Malcolm: Many things in this, in this fever dream world that she started in, but a really telling part of this fever dream is that the men in it are one homeless. It was true. They're, they're one homeless. Yes. Two, none of them have a job. And, and three, they live solely to try to please women.

Simone: Well, they are only relevant on a day where Barbie recognizes them.

Simone: They're only relevant when they have, they are an accessory to Barbie. Yeah. Right.

Malcolm: But they live to please these women, which is interesting because I think if you look at the you know, I think many, obviously there's the most extreme red pill fever dreams and stuff like that. But in many conservative fever dreams I think that women would still have a role.

Malcolm: They'd still have homes. They'd still, you know, when they were born, it wasn't that they were born purposeless. But I think what we're seeing here Is the fantasy of the actual ideal world that, that, that some women in our [00:06:00] current society and like the woke companies strive for is this dystopia. But it gets really interesting when she goes, well, actually, do you have any more thoughts on this part of the movie?

Simone: Well this shows up in several stages of the movie, but it's also super clear from the very beginning that Barbie is extremely asexual. Like there's one scene where Barbie has a big blowout party at her house. And at the end, this is also in the promotional materials, Ken says, Hey, like, I'd like to stay over tonight.

Simone: She's like, Oh, why? He's like, because we're boyfriend and girlfriend. And she's like, to do what? And he's like, I really don't know. And I just feel like the asexuality of both of them also kind of points to the plummeting right now. I mean, we are looking at a more. The sexless society right now where people are living alone, they, they, they, they may pretend to have boyfriends and girlfriends or have performative boyfriends and girlfriends, but not really be intimate with other people, which is something that was also pretty.

Simone: Pretty big in this world even the way that they acted, like in, in the opening sc