the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasnāt even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasnāt created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the kenās and had girls night every night wasnāt because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didnāt have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasnāt thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasnāt made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men donāt have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes weāre just not thinking about them
