{"id":1977229,"date":"2023-07-19T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-gaetz-defends-watching-barbie-movie-over-concerns-on-films-transgender-actor\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:34:27","slug":"matt-gaetz-defends-watching-barbie-movie-over-concerns-on-films-transgender-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-gaetz-defends-watching-barbie-movie-over-concerns-on-films-transgender-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Gaetz supports choice to watch Barbie movie despite controversy over transgender actor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmatt-gaetz-defends-watching-barbie-movie-over-concerns-on-films-transgender-actor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1977229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rep. Matt Gaetz\u200d Defends Attendance at Barbie Movie Launch Party<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Matt \u2064Gaetz (R-FL) has\u2064 come \u200bunder\u200d fire for his\u2062 recent attendance at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breitbart-news-daily-podcast-ep-76-hill-dog-2024-clinton-running-unopposed-givesendgo-founder-jacob-wells-on-canadian-truckers-dr-gorka-on-worst-people-in-the-world\/\" title=\"Breitbart News Daily Podcast Ep. 76: Hill Dog 2024: Clinton Running Unopposed? GiveSendGo Founder Jacob Wells on Canadian Truckers, Dr. Gorka on Worst People in the World\">launch party<\/a> for the new Barbie \u200cmovie. However, Gaetz is standing \u200dfirm in\u200d his \u2063decision, stating \u2062that &#8220;the\u2062 terrorists win&#8221; \u200cif\u200b transgender \u200dactors prevent\u2062 people from seeing the film,\u2064 particularly \u200dMargo\u2063 Robbie&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida congressman and his wife, both\u2064 dressed in \u200cpink\u200c attire,\u2064 were photographed at the event, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hhs-secy-beccera-warns-about-covid-resurgence-during\/\" title=\"HHS Secy. Beccera warns about COVID resurgence during\">sparked criticism online<\/a>. Gaetz took to \u2064social \u200bmedia \u200dto defend his choice, writing, \u200c&#8221;If you let the trans \u200bstop\u2062 you\u2062 from seeing Margo Robbie\u2026\u2026the \u2064terrorists win\u2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Wife&#8217;s Criticisms\u2064 and Film \u200dDetails<\/h3>\n<p>Gaetz&#8217;s wife, Ginger Gaetz, also \u200bexpressed her\u200c concerns about\u200d the movie.\u2064 She criticized \u200cits portrayal of \u200ccollaboration between men and\u200c women, as\u2063 well as its depiction of \u200bbig dreams causing anxiety instead of inspiration. Additionally, she mentioned her disappointment\u200b with the lack \u2063of testosterone from the character Ken.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u200cupcoming \u2062Barbie film, \u200cHari Nef,\u200d a biological male \u2064who\u2062 identifies as a \u2062woman, plays the \u2064role\u200b of a\u2064 doctor.\u2064 The\u2063 movie is set \u200bto release in theaters\u200b this Friday.<\/p>\n<h3>Movieguide&#8217;s \u2063Warning<\/h3>\n<p>Movieguide, a \u200dnonprofit Christian movie\u200d review website, has advised its readers \u200dagainst watching the\u2063 film. They\u200b argue that it neglects its \u200dcore audience\u2064 of families\u2064 and children while \u200ccatering to nostalgic \u200badults and featuring \u2062lesbian, gay, bisexual, and \u2063transgender\u2064 character stories. The website provides \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-gaetz-defends-watching-barbie-movie-over-concerns-on-films-transgender-actor\/\" title=\"Matt Gaetz supports choice to watch Barbie movie despite controversy over transgender actor.\">family-friendly movie ratings based<\/a>\u200c on various content concerns, \u2062such as \u200dlanguage, \u2064violence, and sex.<\/p>\n<p>According \u200bto one of \u2064Movieguide&#8217;s articles dedicated to the film, they believe\u2064 that\u2064 Mattel,\u200c the\u2064 company \u2064behind\u200d Barbie, made a grave mistake by prioritizing a small\u2064 percentage of \u200dthe population over \u2062the millions of\u200c families who would\u2064 have supported the movie at the box office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) defended attending a Barbie movie launch party, arguing that transgender actors shouldn&#8217;t hinder people from seeing Margo Robbie. Online criticism followed his presence at the event, as one of the film&#8217;s characters is portrayed by Hari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}