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it's hard to overstate the massive
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Hi Barbie
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Hi Ken
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the film Enchanted audiences wowed critics
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sparked heated debates
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and made a truly obscene amount of money
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at the box office
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Barbie continues breaking records
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with over 1 billion dollars
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at the global box office
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it's an impressive cultural achievement
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especially considering that the film
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doubles as a feature-length commercial
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for a line of plastic dolls
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there was however one group
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who were decidedly unenthusiastic
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Despite all the bubbly pink fun
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the movie's become a target
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of some right-wing personalities
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they are preaching empowerment
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by making men look weak and dumb
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feminist diet tribe about the evils of
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the modern patriarchy
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It's a trojan horse to to teach girls
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daddy is really a dummy or
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domineering idiots
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It's feminist garbage and
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it's really about hating men
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And Ken is like stupid and unlikable
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This is an assault on not just Ken
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but all men
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If you've seen the movie
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you might be confused
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Because the Barbie script goes out of
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it's way to show Ken
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in a sympathetic light
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If anything the movie might be
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a little too sympathetic to Ken
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"I think I owe you an apology"
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"Huh?"
Now it's tempting to dismiss this
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clearly performative outrage
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as just another attempt to fan the flame
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of the culture war
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But there is something really poisonous
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under-pinning this backlash
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that I do think is worth taking seriously
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One word in particular
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seem to touch a nerve
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"Well I haven't seen Barbie yet,
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but I've seen people talking about
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the number of times they use
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the word patriarchy in it"
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"Feminism and the patriarchy
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and fighting it, and all that"
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"And actually to call it the patriarchy
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in the film that phrase is used many times"
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"If you take a shot every time
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Barbie says the word 'patriarchy',
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you will pass out before the movie ends"
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"As we learned that the use of word
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'patriarchy' no less than ten times
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in this film"
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"The patriarchy is a big part of this
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Barbie film"
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"The word is used endlessly in the movie
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even though most people
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even me actually has no idea that
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what 'patriarchy' really means"
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That is a truly staggering
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level of defensiveness
