Episode 34: Hey Barbie, Part Two

Welcome back to Part Two of our ‘Hey Barbie’ two parter. In this second unapologetically pink episode we cover the criticism of the Barbie film – including the very passionate review that stated it was “114 minutes of spiteful, bitter, mean-spirited, borderline unhinged hatred of men”. Kind of made us want to see it more… We also explore the reasons why Barbieland isn’t a reverse patriarchy and/or a feminist utopia and celebrate Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s success in bringing to the mainstream the idea that men too can benefit from feminism and are actively harmed by the capitalist patriarchal systems that allow a small group of men to dominate society while individual men lose out to loneliness and competition – an idea introduced by feminist Bell Hooks. *** https://www.barbieliberation.org https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/01/barbie-film-ken-ryan-gosling-patriarchy