{"id":1979629,"date":"2023-07-21T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warning-barbie-is-not-harmless-nostalgia-it-has-an-agenda-and-runs-on-hate\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:09:58","slug":"warning-barbie-is-not-harmless-nostalgia-it-has-an-agenda-and-runs-on-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warning-barbie-is-not-harmless-nostalgia-it-has-an-agenda-and-runs-on-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware: &#8216;Barbie&#8217; is not innocent nostalgia &#8211; it promotes an agenda fueled by hate."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwarning-barbie-is-not-harmless-nostalgia-it-has-an-agenda-and-runs-on-hate%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=1979629&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>Warning: &#8216;Barbie&#8217; Is\u200d Not Harmless Nostalgia \u200b- It Has an Agenda and &#8216;Runs on Hate&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Reviews \u2062from director\u200d Greta Gerwig\u2019s live-action\u200c \u201cBarbie\u201d film are starting to come in, but \u2064unlike the doll that American girls have played with since 1959, \u200bthey are anything but \u2064glowing.<\/p>\n<p>I refused to take my daughter to see the film\u200c with a good, old-fashioned father\u2019s \u201cMaybe next week,\u201d which is almost always a softer\u2064 way\u200d of telling \u200da child \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But others have boldly gone to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hundreds-theaters-scramble-add-sound-freedom-studio-responds-reports-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theaters<\/a>, paid for \u200ctickets for the\u2064 film and have\u2063 done a lot\u200c of us a service by taking one\u200b for the team.<\/p>\n<p>The consensus is that \u201cBarbie\u201d is every bit\u2062 as \u200b\u201cwoke,\u201d anti-man and pro-feminist as one might have predicted for such a \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/knew-going-look-horrible-hollywood-employees-admit-todays-films-look-terrible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> \u200ccreation in the Year of Our Lord 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A story about a \u2063diverse\u200d cast \u200cof\u2063 Barbie dolls\u2062 where the lead escapes a\u200b fictional paradise could \u200cnever rely\u2064 on plausibility \u200cin its story. It \u2063wouldn\u2019t \u200cneed to,\u200c if it\u200d simply made itself entertaining and perhaps avoided\u2063 forcing a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/transgender-barbie-actor-reveals-role-driving-hidden-agenda-candy-little-poison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trans woman<\/a>\u201d on its\u2064 viewers.<\/p>\n<p>No one complained\u2064 that April\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/christian-actor-chris-pratts-new-woke-free-movie-crushes-time-box-office-record-easter-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/a>\u201d \u2064was unrealistic \u2014 like\u200c the game, it is a story of an Italian plumber designed by Japanese people who saves a princess from\u2064 turtles.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2062that story was fun, true to its subject \u200bmatter, loyal to its fans and was \u200bthe antithesis \u200dof \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>According to film \u2062reviewer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/barbie-movie-review-woke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Toto<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Toto is a \u200drational cinephile with \u200ba great eye for details and a nose for agendas, so his review was \u200call I needed\u2064 to read.<\/p>\n<p>According to Toto, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/matt-gaetz-wife-blasted-supporting-woke-barbie-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the film<\/a> ultimately throws nostalgia and fun \u2063out the window for an\u2062 opportunity to force its \u2064audience to hear an unrelenting message about \u201cpatriarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toto was generous to a few individual performances and complimented some \u2063of the movie\u2019s visual effects.<\/p>\n<p>But he \u200bconcluded,\u200b \u201cDon\u2019t \u2063let \u2018Barbie\u2019s\u2019 dreamy, \u2064Day-Glo visuals fool you\u2026 This movie hates men so much it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toto added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGerwig, along with [writing] collaborator \u200bNoah Baumbach, have an agenda to push that drains the joy from \u200dtheir creation time after time. And it starts from the \u200copening\u200d minutes with a cringe-worthy \u2064close-up of the all-female Supreme Court \u2062(where\u2019s Amy Coney Barrett?).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeminism! Empowerment! \u200bDown with\u200c the Patriarchy!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Toto concluded the movie, which he said \u201cruns on hate,\u201d had numerous chances to become fun, but derailed itself every few \u2063moments when another \u2062character delivered a predictable speech with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-banks-fighting-let-esg-investors-fund-far-left-political-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political<\/a> undertones.<\/p>\n<p>Writing \u2064for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/18\/barbie-review-margot-robbies-mattel-movie-is-lousy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u2063 New York Post<\/a>, \u2062Johnny Oleksinksy also panned the 114-minute flick.<\/p>\n<p>While awarding the\u2063 film one star out \u200dof a\u2063 possible four, Oleksinsky described \u201cBarbie\u201d\u200d as \u201can exhausting, spastic, self-absorbed and\u200b overwrought disappointment\u201d that attacks consumerism and mentions the alleged fascism of its leading character.<\/p>\n<p>Laughably, this film was produced while someone, somewhere at\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dark-secret-hiding-behind-mattels-new-transgender-barbie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mattel<\/a> probably \u200brubbed their \u200dhands together and thought of all the incoming\u2063 sales.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksinsky \u2063said the film\u2019s\u2064 numerous Ken dolls \u2063are all\u2064 portrayed as imbeciles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf\u200c you\u2019re hoping\u2062 to experience a multiverse \u2062of unique, strong-personality \u200cBarbies, you\u2019re better off \u2064going to Toys \u201cR\u201d\u200b Us after a few martinis,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aft-union-encourages-gifting-book-about-transgender-children-for-the-holiday-season\/\" title=\"AFT Union Encourages Gifting Book About Transgender Children For The \u2018Holiday Season\u2019\">reviewer stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jack-posobiec-locked-twitter-posting-hunter-biden-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Posobiec<\/a>,\u2064 the film might be \u201cthe most \u2064anti-male film ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here is Ken\u2064 singing about \u2018blonde fragility\u2019 in the insanely woke new Barbie<\/p>\n<p>This is possibly\u2064 the most anti-male film ever mad<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Lr98Cy4h0\">pic.twitter.com\/7Lr98Cy4h0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Poso  (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1682234470131171329?\">July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In short, \u201cBarbie\u201d is not a harmless children\u2019s story about a \u2063doll every American girl either owned or was aware \u200bof while growing up.<\/p>\n<p>The film is another \u201cwoke\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jon-voight-slams-liberal-hollywood-propaganda-trump-awards-national-medal-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">propaganda<\/a> engine that focuses more on the agenda of those who made it than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warning-barbie-is-not-harmless-nostalgia-it-has-an-agenda-and-runs-on-hate\/\" title=\"Beware: 'Barbie' is not innocent nostalgia - it promotes an agenda fueled by hate.\">potential box office returns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is the same mindset that has cost \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-ceo-admits-defeat-announces-major-changes-content-strategy-moving-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney<\/a> an estimated \u200b$900 million over\u200d recent flops that insisted \u200don forcing identity \u2063politics \u200cinto stories that are supposed to be an escape for\u2062 the moviegoing public, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/lifestyle\/movies\/2023\/06\/25\/6497ba4e22601dfd6e8b456c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marca<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/warning-barbie-not-harmless-nostalgia-agenda-runs-hate\/\">Warning: &#8216;Barbie&#8217; Is Not \u200dHarmless Nostalgia &#8211; It \u200dHas an\u200d Agenda and &#8216;Runs on Hate&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The \u2062Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews for Greta Gerwig&#8217;s live-action &#8220;Barbie&#8221; film are pouring in, and they&#8217;re far from positive. As a traditional father, I opted to postpone taking my daughter to see it, using the classic excuse of &#8220;Maybe next week.&#8221; It&#8217;s a gentler approach, allowing her to enjoy something better in due time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1979630,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1979629","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\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}