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as a nonbinary person the thing i enjoyed a lot about the Barbie movie is the little marginalized group of: Weird Barbie and Allan, and how they inherently fall out of the strict and oppressive gendered dynamics once patriarchy is enforced; how that is summed up as “You’re either brainwashed, or weird and ugly, there is no inbetween”. Weird Barbie living on the outskirts, fully excluded; Allan feeling intrinsically out of place in the Kendom.
rly like it as a very subtle nod to how gender essentialists will claim the gender binary is entrenched in the fabric of the universe and gender characteristics and assignment are inherent and in-born, but then will define binary genders in such a narrow, strict and exclusionary way to make them an ultra-specific performance of arbitrary roles; how gender binary is inherently heteronormative, how gender roles with all their oppressiveness are still reserved for the privileged majority who even has the option to perform them, how gender expectation is inherently murkier and gender conformity less attainable when one exists on the intersection of multiple marginalized identities; etc. just neat!
[ID: Two image photo set. 1) Digital drawing showing the cast of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse cheerfully attending a screening of the Barbie movie (2023). From left to right we have Spider Noir wearing a pink boa; Peni Parker laughing and cradling Spider-Ham who holds a pink, fast food cup in his hands; Gwen Stacy in her full masked outfit with a bag of popcorn, chuckling while Miles Morales - wearing a teal hoodie with pink accents over his spider suit with its mask on - eagerly discusses the film with his hands outstretched in front of him; Pavitr Prabhakar in the center fully masked as Spider-Man: India looking screen right at an unamused Hobie Brown, fully dressed as Spider-Punk; and finally at the far right Peter B. Parker wearing a pink bathrobe over his Spider-Man suit, tenderly smiling at his daughter May Parker, as she plays with a Barbie doll. The characters walk against a pink wall, obscuring a large Barbie movie poster behind them.
2) A digital drawing of Miguel O'Hara as seen in Across the Spider-Verse drawn with a caked up bubble butt, screaming on his knees in agony while a small hologram of Lyla lectures and consoles him. Behind them is a framed poster of Oppenheimer (2023).
the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them
One thing I want to point out about nimona is that it captures tenderness in such a visceral way that I haven’t really seen in 3D animation before? Like the way the characters curl into each other and melt makes me go INSANE
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