Rocky Vs Barbie: Who gives empowering speech & uplifting advice? Who turns people into Jackasses?

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Right out of the gate, Gerwig’s (ICONIC BARBIE) monologue written for America Ferrera starts with: “It’s literally impossible to be a woman!? Really? LITERALLY? ‘better spread that news, especially to all of the hopefuls who are transitioning. The thing I find so insidious and diabolical about the Barbie Movie is encapsulated in this incredibly DISempowering speech. The whole movie is cloaked as feminism, beating down objectification (by men) and pretense in the guise of a pink cartoon that is somehow “important” or “empowering” to women. It surely “touched a nerve” and “struck a chord.” It made over a billion bucks! Sadly, that just goes to show HOW MUCH FARTHER women need to go in honoring, uplifting, praising, encouraging, motivating, and respecting THEMSELVES! I want that for women. I want and give that respect to ANY woman who manages to respect herself. I don’t see my wife the way the Barbie movie sees women. My wife doesn’t see herself that way either. I believe that there would be great assets and facets to a “matriarchy.” If this pathetic victim talk is considered one of ‘em, then count me out. And, unlike the nonexistent ARC in the movie, I would hope, want, strive for a unity and collaboration between all people. An OMNIARCHY!

It's been reported that people on the set were CRYING after Ferrera delivered that monologue. They consider that “a good thing.” Nay, a GREAT thing. I say, I HIGHLY recommend therapy for anyone who is unconscious enough to fall for that “advice.” Sincerely. Self-help books, introspection, awareness, would all be great places to start. Take charge of your life. Wow. Once upon a time women were “put in their place.” Now, sadly, like the baby elephant tethered to the tiny stake in the ground that grows up to believe that tiny stake can still hold them down, it’s the women who are telling each other they are “not good enough.” Not strong enough. Not powerful enough…because the big bad patriarchy is still putting them there. And in an astounding and mind-blowing pile of hypocrisy, this speech extols how men and society somehow want women to be two opposing things. It is this movie that does that from start to finish. And why hasn’t anyone called out the fact that a shorter, curvier, darker woman like America Ferrera was not the lead…in fact, she even idolized and played with a blue-eyed, blond Barbie. Yeow. ‘reminds me of the horrific and enlightening Oprah expose’ on how little black girls chose little white dolls to play with. (Not cool.) That’s the movie to be made! If anyone is aware of the “Magical Negro” in movies (mostly) of long ago, I can’t help but think Ferrera is playing the “Magical Latina.” A crutch used to put the words into the mouth of the whitey who “can’t say those things.” Oh my. The movie and its creators have no “self awareness.” The irony is palpable. It’s like having the crossing guard be the one who runs over the kids in the crosswalk.

Take a tip from the (seemingly) lower(er) I.Q. character of Rocky Balboa. (Excerpt from Rocky 6: "Rocky Balboa".) He gives the advice that Gerwig would/should/could only hope to give. To be a victor, you must leave victimhood and blame. That’s self-help 101.

My 16 yo son loved the movie. Congratulations. You bedazzled him like so many of the other billion-dollar-paying-patrons (he saw it at the cinema, unlike me). You seduced him and millions of people to follow you to PLEASURE ISLAND (see Pinocchio). Barbieland even resembles the colorful, flashy, alluring, seductive Pleasure Island. Your Barbie (Robbie) and Gloria (Ferrera) are the J. Worthington Foulfellow (FOX) and Gideon (Cat) to Barbieland's Pleasure Island. The Island seduces those who enjoy it. It turns them into jackasses! (Barbieland turns women into Jillasses!) Just as Barbieland's candy-like veneer and ideological/objectified/glorified women give a pretense to some sort of female heaven...where...incidentally, men are treated like crap. Ken is a clingy, jealous, possessive, "victimy," imbecile who only lives to impress Barbie. Since the "Real World" (our world and the B.S. 1950s version of the current model in the movie) are supposedly OPPOSITES of Barbieland (Men and Women swap roles/positions-in-society), that means that Gerwig must believe that women are clingy, possessive, idiotic victims who only live to impress men. I'd say that's quite the Freudian slip.

BTW, I WANTED to LOVE (or even LIKE) the movie. The previews and all of the marketing are award-winning, and the best I've seen in decades...reminding me of the "old" summer blockbuster, "tent-pole" days where 1 or 2 movies were the events of the year. If Barbie delivered what the trailers/promotion promised, maybe I would have enjoyed it...but then it might also have only been a "cartoon." I am a huge fan of delivering a theme/message (covertly/subconsciously) in a film. If the theme were actual female empowerment with a full arc & finale to a unity of gender respect and power that would have been a story! 

Freudian Slip by Gerwig? Does she believe women are idiots?

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In the Barbieland Ken is a clingy, jealous, possessive, and insecure idiot who only lives to impress Barbie. And since everything in the REAL WORLD is the flip side, that must mean that Greta’s projection of reality is that all women are clingy, jealous, possessive, and insecure idiots. Just a thought.

A New Take On Greta Gerwig's America Ferrera Iconic Barbie Speech

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Imagine you are attending "The Barbies!" We've got a more truthful albeit still confusing monologue by America Ferrera as a presenter here at "The Barbies!"
Ferrera: Welcome to the BARBIES. Yes. We’re taking back our power by blaming everyone for our problems. It’s literally impossible to be powerful while acting like a loser, but we’re going to go for it. It kills me that you’re smart and beautiful, but you totally fell for this disempowering bullshit.
And now that women have been put in charge in Hollywood …they have to answer for all of their box office flops and poorly written films.
But if fans or men point that out, they’re accused of being toxic, racist, or sexist. And nobody gives us women an award or medal or even a toaster oven. Just millions upon millions of dollars and maybe an Oscar for incomprehensible reasons.
And it’s literally impossible to accuse men of objectifying us if we do it first. And It’s literally impossible to pretend to champion curvy women of color and various genders while having the personification of the white blond ideal woman Margot Robbie cast in the title role.
And it’s literally impossible to use literally, literally this many times. Like. It just kills me.

What bigger, badder thing will Barbie Bring Us? The BCU!

 

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If it works on a small scale, GO BIG! And Barbie was hardly small scale. So, what’s next? Well, of course there will be myriad Barbie sequels. And MATTEL (makers of Barbie) have some 60 movies (based on their toys) in the works. (Dwayne Johnson is working on “Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots.” J.J. Abrams is working on “Hot Wheels.” May God help us all.) Surely though, there’s something more that Barbie can bring to us. Something larger. A bigger universe where icons, designed to objectify women, are gathered aan somehow “re-worked” and “re-purposed” to, ostensibly, empower women! Don’t ask any questions. Just, go with it. It’s gonna be genius!

Welcome to "THE BARBIES!" -- "The Barbie Movie" Greatest Speech Ever Monologue by Gerwig.

 

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I really wanted to like the Barbie movie. I suppose I would have liked the movie that they marketed to me, but that isn’t what the movie turned out to be. I want to first say that the marketing (albeit deceptive) was the best marketing I’ve seen for a movie in a long, long time. It harkened back to the days of the one or two per summer blockbusters. --when movies truly were events, and it took years to make tent-pole pictures. Well, as brilliant (and all encompassing) as the marketing was, the movie was the opposite. It was perhaps diabolical, but that might be giving the creators too much credit. It was so incredibly convoluted on top of its nonsense (as well as choosing matriarch revenge -- very non-matriarch-like) over a world of gender equality, that I have to think the authors are ignorant if not also mean-spirited. At minimum, a few visits to even a half-assed shrink could have cleared up some of the whiny victimhood that the movie actually promotes.

Now, I would just dismiss this whole thing as a “silly little movie.” Why get “worked up about it?” Well, only because many people have “drank the Kool-Aid” and consider it to be some sort of seminal work. Most egregious is the celebrated and “heralded as genius” speech written for America Ferrera by Greta and her husband. “Yeah, they really get me and understand women and their plight” is what many women seemingly “take away.” (And, clutch the pearls, she was nominated for best screenplay but snubbed for best director!)  The issue is, the speech is purposely woven with paradox. That’s fine, but it mostly blames men for downside of the paradox. It hands over all the power to men, while believing that it somehow empowers women. It actually puts them in a victim posture, at the mercy of men and their whims. It also wants to “have its cake and eat it too.” Because it’s really the women behind this movie that are “putting women in their place” rather than men. Why is it that a “Magical Latina” must speak for Barbie and the “theme/point?” Because they could never cast Ferrera as the lead for a movie that is supposedly about equality and celebrating all shapes and sizes and colors of women. Without much “training,” most anyone can be snapped out of the haze and recognize that this “important speech” that made so many people on the set cry, is a typical “BEFORE” snapshot of a victim who has not had any sort of introspection, awakening, or therapy yet it is being celebrated as the “AFTER” self-awareness image. Let me ask you: Would any of you want to date, befriend, or hang out with anyone who talks about themselves and “womanhood” that way? ‘Seems like a big red (pink) flag to me. Ironically, feminism is about gaining equality. The movie instead lands right back where it started, with victim women ruling the land of Barbie. And for some reason, Robbie’s Barbie goes back to the horrible 1950s version of “Reality.” What? What is her motivation there? This movie is a convoluted mess. 

NOTE: The clip used for the metaphor for Gerwig’s speech is from the ending of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” (And that kind of sums it all up!) In it, all of the women march into a hospital room filled with all of the injured men. Ethel Merman leads the hoard and screams at the men calling them idiots and telling them, “It’s all your fault!” Of course she takes zero responsibility for the actions which render her flat on her rear.  I’d say that sums up what Gerwig was saying in the America Ferrera speech. I cannot remember whether the men were solely to blame in that comedy, but, regardless, it was clear that Merman’s character was a blow-hard. And no matter what, the film was a silly comedy. There was no “message” or activist agenda. Anyone and everyone could kick back and enjoy the shenanigans. I’m sure there’s plenty for the SJW snowflakes to have a fit over, but the movie is essentially a “cartoon.” Who would have thought it would have something so important to say 60+ years later in summarizing the Barbie Speech.