Something maybe obvious to others but a tweet yesterday really clarified for me is that the thing with the weird excerpts we’ve seen from the Barbie movie – Ken’s job and idiom of male status competition being “beach”, his having a sense that after a good date a man would sleep over at the woman’s house but no idea why – isn’t that the characters are vapid, it’s that these are Barbies as being played with by little girls, who don’t really understand the adult world they’re burlesquing.

jjeremysstash:

ladyshinga:

Truth is, it reads more like “she can do everything” and “him, it’s just Ken”

And ken is a slang used in French that means “to fuck”

So “Him, it’s just fucking”

Which I think is even more hilarious

I’m just here for the combination of enthusiasm and Frenchness which is “INCROYAAAAABLE”

crazy-brazilian:

official-kircheis:

I am basically going to go through the rest of life remembering Cats 2019 and Barbie 2023 as the bookends to the pandemic, huh?

specterthief:

no but this is actually driving me insane

gunsandfireandshit:

I mean yes, I approve of “the concept of the ideal American boyfriend” being coded closer to me

kontextmaschine:

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This is absolutely going to be the energy of the Lego Movie (2014) crossed with the energy of Cats (2019) and I approve