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Barbie - No Genitals. No Problems.

Published: Aug. 1, 2023, 8 a.m.

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Melanie & Melvin have a blast talking about 2023's not-so-surprise hit, Barbie! From it's nonstop comedy to its sensible-yet-kind display of gender and social economics, Barbie has it all!

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  • Melanie liked\\xa0Barbie, but she didn't connect with the movie like she expected. She wonders if it's because of the hype.
  • Melvin really enjoyed\\xa0Barbie\\xa0and appreciated that the comedy never comes off as mean-spirited.
  • Melanie greatly resonated with\\xa0Barbie's introduction about the Barbie figure greatly changing the landscape of children's toys because that's\\xa0exactly\\xa0what it was like for her as a child.
  • Contrasting the Barbie figure with the baby doll, there's simply\\xa0so much more creativity permitted in a child's development when playing with Barbie than with a baby doll. It's incomparable.
  • Melvin meditates on the proliferation of products based on products waxing poetic about existentialism, which feels especially strange but makes total sense in a post-post-post capitalist culture.
  • Melvin rants about people who don't think men rule the world and asks them to name one female director from before 2018.
  • Casting Ryan Gosling as Ken, and then having Ken be a character like\\xa0this makes total sense when we observe how Ryan Gosling has become somewhat of an icon of the man-o-sphere.
  • The third act of\\xa0Barbie is undeniably frenetic, but it still works nonetheless.
  • Daniel had texted Melvin and said a man at his theater was being extremely rude and cheering on the "playful misogyny" of the movie. Melanie and Melvin frustratingly process why anyone would choose to be so rude.
  • Melvin, "You cannot believe sin exists and that the potential for sin exists and then not think that men, by their biological power, [would] then abuse it."

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