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Barbie is Queerer Than You Think
Barbie is an American fantasy-comedy film, directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig, that debuted in theatres in July 2023. Given the progressive take of the Barbie movie, which features multiple LGBTQ+ actors and trans actress Hari Nef (as Doctor Barbie), keen viewers might observe LGBTQ+ and transgender themes relevant to the up-to-date world.
The film follows the story of Barbie, who after malfunctioning in Barbieland embarks on a journey to the real nature in the hopes of becoming a normal Barbie again.
Spoiler Alert: This article will discuss the plot of Barbie (2023).
Womanhood and Exploring Gender Identity in Barbie
The feminist message of female empowerment accompanies Margot Robbie’s “stereotypical” Barbie throughout the entire film. However, Barbie opens up a wider discussion on womanhood and manhood. An array of diverse actresses, including trans actress Hari Nef, play Barbie doll characters. While the movie does not dive into transsexual identity, Barbie still manages to touch upon LGBTQ+ issues without naming them as such.
LGBTQ+ Representation and Trans Actress
In fact, the film features several
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If you haven’t already seen the new Barbie show what have you been doing! Yes it’s a bubbly, bright, explosion in pink. But it’s also the most extraordinary, experience affirming allegory for gay and trans lives that you’ll ever see. How, you ask? Well strap in, because I've got ten fabulous reasons why the Barbie movie is all about LGBTQ+ realness.
The film’s writer and director Greta Gerwig is no stranger to challenging norms and reinventing cinematic narratives. We saw in her Oscar nominated films Lady Bird and Little Women that she has an incredible talent for rendering complex female characters with depth and authenticity.
With Barbie though, Gerwig takes this talent a step further by subverting the very essence of the doll's traditional image as an icon of oppressive femininity and masculine desire. And replaces it with something entirely opposite.
Her subversion aligns beautifully with the Diverse lived experience, where individuals often defy societal norms to embrace our genuine selves. By portraying Barbie as a symbol of acceptance, inclusivity, and self-discovery, who defies expectations and embraces her individuality, Gerwig has cr
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Note: The below review contains spoilers for the Barbie (2023) film! If you’d like a discussion that is spoiler-free (recorded before the film screened), inspect out my chat about bimbos and Barbies on NPR’s It’s Been a Minute with Brittany Luse.
I went and saw Barbie on opening late hours, and walked right advocate in and saw it again the next morning. The hype around the film has been so immense that I felt like I was holding my breath with excitement and expectation for the whole first screening. Because Barbie is essentially two movies in one mashed together (Barbie and Ken’s stories), as well as kind-of but not-quite existence a musical, and definitely a technicolour spectacle, the net result of my first viewing was overwhelm. When I saw it the next day everything made more sense, I knew what to predict . It was much more enjoyable and I highly recommend seeing it twice (or more…I’ll definitely move back).
Despite the lengthy lead up to the film’s release, and literally months of speculating about its content, I create Barbie to be so unexpected, joyously unique. I guess even with all my queer hopes I still thought that the f
‘Barbie’ film ‘forgets core audience’ in favor of trans agenda and gender themes, Christian movie site warns
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The upcoming "Barbie" motion picture ignores its key demographic in favor of catering to "a small percentage of the population," a faith-based production review site claimed.
"Warning: Don't take your daughter to Barbie," Movieguide, a Christian movie review site warned ahead of the film's free July 21. The review criticized the film about the iconic doll of abandoning its core audience of families and little girls to instead emphasis on LGBTQ stories.
"The new BARBIE feature forgets its core audience of families and children while catering to nostalgic adults and pushing lesbian, gay, multi-attracted and transgender personality stories. Furthermore, the movie was poorly made with multiple premises, losing even the most die-hard fans," the scathing staff review-penned piece began.
"They had a built-in market and audience for this franchise that they completely ignored," the story continued. "Millions of families would have turned out to the theaters and purchased tickets, but instead, Mattel chose to cater to a petty percentage of the population w
Let's face it: "Barbie" was going to be gay. Maybe not gay enough, according to some gays. Maybe too gay, according to anti-gays.
The fact is, this is a movie about Barbie, and wherever Barbie goes, some essential queerness will proceed , too. As a kid, I recall wanting to be Barbie's best homosexual friend - I imagined we'd own some pretty amusing sleepovers in her Dreamhouse. I also imagined some adorable fun sleepovers with Ken.
So now that "Barbie" is a splashy, pink-soaked blockbuster, director Greta Gerwig serves up a feminist fantasia in which a diverse group of Barbies, including several played by LGBTQ+ actors, reclaim their earth from their Ken-ruling counterparts. As a gay boy led into gay adulthood by strong women, I am on board with all that girl authority in Gerwig's "Barbie."
I also appreciate that the film, starring Margot Robbie as the leading Barbie and Ryan Gosling as the head Ken, is occupied of queer subtext that has sent right-wingers into a anti-queer meltdown because, god forbid, dolls should be for everyone. Fox News reported that a Christian news site "warns" that the film '"forgets core audience' in favor of trans agenda and gender themes."
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