The highly anticipated Barbie debuted to strong reviews (it has a 90% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes), with many reviewers singling out the feminist themes as a highlight, but some critics have called out Barbie’s feminist angle as “woke” and criticize what they say is a “man-hating” portrayal of Ryan Gosling’s Ken.

Though over 300,000 Barbies were reportedly sold in its very first year of production, the doll has found itself in the midst of controversies since its very birth. Several mothers found the doll too sexual when it launched, as early as 1963.

While the details of the storyline have been kept under wraps, what we do know for sure is that the movie will show Barbie going through an existential crisis, leaving the utopian Barbie Land and taking a trip to the real world with her boyfriend Ken.

Thus far, the film has already garnered attention for a number of reasons, from its ambitious set-design, to a scene featuring a map reflecting China’s claim over the whole of the South China Sea – something which got the film banned in Vietnam.

Far-right media figure Jack Posobiec called Barbie a “man-hating Woke propaganda fest,” criticizing the film for portraying the Kens as less intelligent than the Barbies and for its themes about rising up against the patriarchy.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro struck a predictably similar tone, tweeting: “All you need to know about #BarbieTheMovie is that it unironically uses the word ‘patriarchy’ more than ten times,” urging his followers to leave negative reviews for Barbie if polled by CinemaScore, a market research firm that asks audience members on opening night to give a film a letter grade between A and F.

In a Fox News segment, conservative author Peachy Kennan called the film an “insidious packaging of feminist cliché and trans grooming,” criticizing the casting of transgender actress Hari Nef as one of the Barbies.

Some on social media mocked conservatives who criticized Barbie for being“woke.” One user tweeted: “Did they want Barbie to promote being a stay-at-home wife and homeschooling children or whatever? Barbie’s whole thing is she could do any job men could do lol, she has never been ‘antiwoke,’” with more than 100,000 people liking the tweet.

Podcast host and MSNBC analyst Brittany Packnett Cunningham tweeted she didn’t have plans to see Barbie in theaters, but after she saw the anti-woke backlash, she said: “nah lemme head to the theater.”

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The movie is a total waste of time.

Aimed at making people accept weirdness

This Hollywood guys are geniuses.

The Barbie movie, like any film, is open to interpretation. While some label it as "man-hating" or overly feminist, it's worth remembering that Barbie, as a character, has always challenged traditional gender roles.
Accusations of "woke propaganda" may stem more from personal perspectives rather than the film's actual content.

It's best to watch the film with an open mind and form your own opinion! and if you want to know more about characters, please check this Barbie character quiz to find out more about their personalities.

janetjohanson:
The Barbie movie, like any film, is open to interpretation. While some label it as "man-hating" or overly feminist, it's worth remembering that Barbie, as a character, has always challenged traditional gender roles.
Accusations of "woke propaganda" may stem more from personal perspectives rather than the film's actual content.

It's best to watch the film with an open mind and form your own opinion! and if you want to know more about characters, please check this Barbie character quiz to find out more about their personalities.

Barbie has always been a Feminist thing, it's true aim is marketing dolls to young girls

Come back after watching the movie. All you children do in this forum is copy and paste other writers’ materials.

Some (even some conservatives) have described it as a smart way of ridiculing "wokeness". Others blatantly say it is a woke movie. So it might greatly depend on your sense of humor.

Others say it is balanced tho.

You expect feminists to make a man-loving movie?