header: @alexthedrummerboy | Liv - 23 | Slytherin | ♐️ | bisexual bitcchhhh | ASD & ADHD ✨Current hyper-fixations include RWBY | JATP | Legend of Vox Machina | and practically anything remotely queer, my fandoms, my ships and a lot of random crap I reblog
you know, one thing that i found extremely refreshing about the Barbie movie is how much it doesn’t hate men or masculinity, and instead positions compulsory masculinity as similarly limiting and imprisoning as femininity when it’s societally enforced
and i’ve been really surprised by how many people who have been going “this movie is anti-men, and that’s GREAT” when like. it’s not anti-men. it’s opposed to patriarchy and toxic masculinity, but it extends a great deal of compassion to individual men
not just to magic ken and sugar daddy ken and allan and the other rejected kens, but even to stereotypical ken, who like. causes a lot of the problems in barbieland and leads it. it extends a great deal of empathy for his sense of powerlessness and loneliness
and it would have been very easy for the film to basically just call him an incel and punish him for what he’s done by disenfranchising him even further, but it doesn’t do that? it says, hey. you need more to your identity than your gender, and there’s more to you than being str8
and that’s exactly the same weight of the message communicated to barbie, that there’s more to her identity than her gender, that there’s more to her than her perfect appearance and performance
neither of them have to just be dolls
idk, i enjoyed it as a well-crafted film without finding it like, hugely artistically impactful on me, but that aspect of its gender commentary was incredibly refreshing, and far more nuanced than i’m used to expecting of cisgender creators
and i think it’s a real shame for people to interpret that very carefully crafted arc for ken and the other kens and allan as “haha, this movie HATES men and thinks they’re STINKY” when like. a lot of work was done to go beyond that sort of very easy reflexive hatred
If the background actors don’t come in for work because they exist virtually then the background costume and background hair and make up and their catering and transport and all the other departments that look after them get cut too. These things have knock on effects…
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR
GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS
THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO
HOPEFULLY
We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.
