{"id":1981466,"date":"2023-07-24T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/depressed-barbie-is-what-happens-when-feminists-are-trusted-with-an-icon\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:29:39","slug":"depressed-barbie-is-what-happens-when-feminists-are-trusted-with-an-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/depressed-barbie-is-what-happens-when-feminists-are-trusted-with-an-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminists&#8217; Trust in Icon Leads to Depressed &#8216;Barbie&#8217;"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdepressed-barbie-is-what-happens-when-feminists-are-trusted-with-an-icon%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=1981466&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--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Barbie: A Missed Opportunity<\/h2>\n<p>It really is as\u200d if\u2064 Hollywood executives woke up \u2063one morning and said, \u201cHow can we \u2064ruin another American icon? Quick, get Kate McKinnon on the line!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I saw \u201cBarbie\u201d \u200don Sunday, and it was everything I knew it would be. Incidentally, it \u200cwasn\u2019t because McKinnon is \u2063an unfunny butch \u200cwho I\u200c otherwise avoid, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/depressed-barbie-is-what-happens-when-feminists-are-trusted-with-an-icon\/\" title=\"Feminists' Trust in Icon Leads to Depressed 'Barbie'\">gas\u200c station\u2062 restrooms<\/a>. But because there is \u200dnothing the entertainment industry enjoys more than defiling beauty, femininity,\u2062 and innocence.<\/p>\n<p>The doll, beloved by \u2063generations of \u200dwomen, is\u200d all of those things, so the film was destined to be a charmless, disenchanted offense to the senses. God forbid Hollywood produce anything that might\u2062 celebrate the whimsical, fabulous, and\u200b pink life of the Barbie \u2064everyone knows.\u200d Instead, the\u2063 movie is two hours of obvious references intended as jokes \u2063crammed\u200b into a lecture on how miserable and \u2063impossible it \u200bis to be\u200c a happy woman in \u2062America.<\/p>\n<h3>A Disappointing Climax<\/h3>\n<p>The climax is literally a\u200d lecture \u200con how miserable and\u2062 impossible it is to be\u200d a happy\u200d woman,\u200d delivered by America Ferrera\u2019s \u200dcharacter, a \u200cmother in despair who works\u2062 at Mattel and \u200bwho channels Barbie\u2064 from her fun \u2062fantasy world into real \u200clife via her own depressed and defeated mood.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t have\u200b too much fun, kids!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m \u200bjust so tired of watching \u2063myself and \u200bevery single other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-bullsht-vietnam-vet-star-wars-shop-owner-tells-trans-council-member-youre-not-a-woman-in-viral-public-confrontation\/\" title=\"\u2018That\u2019s Bullsh*t\u2019: Vietnam Vet Star Wars Shop Owner Tells Trans Council Member \u2018You\u2019re Not A Woman\u2019 In Viral Public Confrontation\">woman tie<\/a> herself\u2062 into knots so people will like us,\u201d she \u2062says. \u201cIf all of that is also true for a doll\u2062 just\u200c representing a woman,\u200b then I don\u2019t even know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-burn-this-place-down-left-calls-for-violence-after-treasonous-scotus-abortion-leak\/\" title=\"\u2018Let\u2019s Burn This Place Down\u2019: Left Calls For Violence After Treasonous SCOTUS Abortion Leak\">angry women<\/a> looking for an excuse for their shortcomings or bad luck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/obsessed\/barbie-monologue-the-complexities-of-america-ferreras-feminist-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">loved it<\/a>. \u200dBut, ironically,\u2062 it takes some balls to project that kind of misery onto \u201cevery single other woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every\u200b single other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bachelor-star-gets-back-together-with-contestant-he-cancelled-for-racism-months-ago\/\" title=\"Bachelor Star Gets Back Together With Contestant He Cancelled For \u2018Racism\u2019 Months Ago\">woman isn\u2019<\/a>t mentally and emotionally paralyzed the way Barbie, written and directed by celebrated feminist Greta Gerwig, insists. Not everyone hates themselves and their\u2063 lot in life\u200b the way Gerwig must. That includes women.<\/p>\n<p>Many of\u200c them are \u2064happy, content, even. Barbie is \u200dand always \u2063has been. She\u2019s \u200brich, beautiful,\u2064 smart, talented, winsome, popular, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-racism-a-serious-public-health-threat\/\" title=\"CDC Director: Racism A \u2018Serious Public Health Threat\u2019\">physically active<\/a>. Or,\u2063 she was,\u2064 right up until a\u2064 bitter Hollywood feminist got her\u200c sticky hands on her and decided it was time to corrupt\u2062 yet another \u2064American\u2062 legend.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie should have been \u2063about the things the\u200d doll \u2064has forever been: excitement, femininity, beauty,\u200c and ambition. What the \u2063audience got was\u200d a self-conscious\u2064 lead role and an inexplicable transgender\u2062 person who\u200d looked like \u200cJack Nicholson\u2019s \u201cJoker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What \u2064a shame. \u2062But everyone should have seen\u2063 that \u200dcoming.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood execs seemingly decided to destroy another American icon by casting Kate McKinnon in &#8220;Barbie.&#8221; As expected, the movie was exactly what I anticipated. Notably, my lack of interest in McKinnon, who I find unfunny and avoid, played a part in my experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1981467,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1981466","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}