It was a movie, about a doll.
Exactly, what do you know, because you didn't see the movie. Quite literally, you do not know what you're talking about.
The movie actually rejects precisely the sort of rigid feminism that has led to many of the current social ills, as well as rejecting the rigid masculinism that feminism claims to be against.
At the end of the day, the point of the movie is to figure yourself out, and figure the world out for yourself, rather than being chained to someone else's reductive ideology, whether that be of the "patriarchy" variety or the feminist variety.
And no, it's not about forcing your personal sexual preferences and fetishes on the rest of the world. As the mother puts it toward the end of the movie, she just wants "Ordinary Barbie" - “She just has a flattering top and she wants to get through the day feeling kind of okay.”
And the rigid, comical "patriarchy" espoused by Ken is ultimately rejected by him, in part because “Once I realized the patriarchy wasn’t about horses, I kind of lost interest.”
It all takes place in the context of a doll mileu, which is necessarily childish, and thus everything is two-dimensional and stereotyped - the protagonist doll herself is labeled as the "Stereotypical Barbie".
At the end of the day, rigid orthodoxies are rejected, a mother and daughter who were alienated by the daughter's adherence to a rigid, primitive feminism have been reunited, with the daughter rejecting that rigid feminism, and the only piece of unfinished business - other than Barbie's visit to the gynecologist - is that the real-life daughter's father needs to stop being a woke beta-cuck - he is not held up as a model for men - and needs to find himself out for himself as well.
So, which is it? A movie about a doll, or a deeply philosophical critique of the modern feminist movement? Or, are you perhaps suggesting that a movie can be about a kid's toy and also have deeper subtextual meaning to it? Because that's what I've been arguing all along: that entertainment in general is being produced with sometimes subtle, sometimes overt messaging in it, and conservatives ought to be paying attention to that instead of dismissing it out of hand. Which, interestingly, was your first move.
I didn't see the movie. I saw the trailer, read about the previous work of the director (Greta Gerwig), and saw the early reviews, and decided that the movie wasn't for me. YMMV. If you saw it and enjoyed it, good for you. If you saw it and didn't enjoy it, that sucks. If, like me, you decided not to see it, then you saved the price of admission and hopefully spent the time doing something you enjoyed doing.
