Barbie has got me emotional as a trans girl who used to feel like Ken as a kid, someone who adored the women around him so much at first, thinking they can do anything, feeling like all he can be is an accessory. Then you see the superficial advantages of masculinity and that it could revolve around some basic things you like without understanding its nature, and are invited into it without really knowing how to act.
His story ends with him finding out who he really is, which was where i was 5 years ago. Now I’m 3 and a half years into transition. And now I feel like Barbie. Who goes into the world not really knowing what to expect. Being able to feel for the first time, and not being sure how to navigate those feelings. But still having this enormous pressure of “womanhood” on you and feeling the need to be perfect in it, while not even having the genitals corresponding with womanhood.
She came to terms with what it is to be human, and a woman, and aging, and the knowledge that she will never be perfect, and that’s ok. She is still her, and always will be. And now I feel as though I’ve been given permission to feel, to cry, to age, to be imperfect, to exist as me without my womanhood ever being up for debate, and I just find that really beautiful
The Barbie movie isn’t about girl power. It’s not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It’s about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don’t have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)
rip all the parents who didn’t check the rating of barbie and took their slightly too young children to a pg-13 movie and now need to explain what a gynecologist is to their kids
I didn’t realize it at first, but do you feel like Allan could be a stand in for nonbinary people?
BARBIE MOVIE SPOILERS:
He’s not a Ken, He’s not a Barbie, he’s just Allan He’s the only Allan and he doesn’t really understand it. He moves more like the Barbies do, but he’s not brainwashed by the Kendom. His appearance is similar to the Kens, but he’s not a part of the Kendom. He’s something else, somewhere in the middle.
Also they kinda show Allan not fitting into a gender binary. We see femininity and masculinity represented in Barbie and Ken, both going through the extremes of them. We see this in every Ken and every Barbie, but not Allan. He even works with the Barbies when dismantling the Kendom since it effects him negatively too and he doesn’t like it. Like how the patriarchy also effects non binary people and people outside the gender binary negatively.
You could say he leans masc/is masc and that’s true, but the Kens don’t really seem to accept him or include him as one of them. He has Barbie-like mannerisms but he’s not included with the Barbies ever, he’s not invited to girls nights. He’s just, Allan.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if itβs part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORSβ UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!
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