{"id":1983269,"date":"2023-07-26T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-was-plus-size-ken-in-barbie\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:22:59","slug":"where-was-plus-size-ken-in-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-was-plus-size-ken-in-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Where was the inclusion of &#8216;Plus-Size Ken&#8217; in &#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\">18<\/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%2Fwhere-was-plus-size-ken-in-barbie%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=1983269&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      <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Feminist Icon in Greta Gerwig&#8217;s Barbieland<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fight-the-left-get-in-shape\/\" title=\"Fight The Left: Get In Shape\">feminist icon<\/a> in Greta\u2062 Gerwig\u2019s Barbieland possesses all the hallmarks of the quintessential Barbie\u2063 that led to the doll\u2019s rejection by aggressive \u2063activists, to begin with. Blonde hair, busty boobs, and big hips earned the tight-waisted actress\u2062 Margot Robbie the lead role\u2063 of \u201cstereotypical Barbie\u201d in the pink-tinted fairytale of Hollywood\u2019s\u2063 latest blockbuster, cast as \u200cboth a villain and a \u2062heroine.<\/p>\n<p>The movie debuted with \u200can\u200c explicit message about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billie-eilish-talks-body-image-stereotypes-after-posing-in-corset-i-can-do-whatever-i-want\/\" title=\"Billie Eilish Talks Body Image, Stereotypes After Posing In Corset: \u2018I Can Do Whatever I Want\u2019\">body image<\/a>, female expectations, and conventional beauty standards. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/24\/barbie-delivers-more-lectures-than-laughs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">words<\/a> of Federalist Contributor Rich\u2062 Cromwell, \u201cBarbie\u201d delivered \u201cmore lectures than laughs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barbie herself, presented as an \u200dunrealistic version of a 1950s housewife, lives in a female-dominated fantasyland complete with the neighbors of a diverse California utopia featuring all the\u200d identities on the victimized hierarchy. \u2063Barbie\u2019s black, Barbie\u2019s trans, Barbie\u2019s Asian, weird, and even disabled. \u200bOf course, Barbie\u2019s also plus-size. But for their male partners in paradise, diversity was an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p>Plus-size Ken had\u200d no place in Barbieland. And the \u200cKens who did were mocked by\u2062 their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-men-and-women-compete-athletically-heres-what-the-science-says\/\" title=\"Can Men And Women Compete Athletically? Here\u2019s What The Science Says.\">female counterparts<\/a> as ultra-narcissistic for their commitment to fitness. \u2064Stereotypical Ken himself, played by Ryan \u2063Gosling\u200c with washboard abs,\u200c was only happy when validated \u2064by Barbie.<\/p>\n<p>In her\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2023-07-23\/barbie-america-ferrera-monologue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lecture<\/a> on how much she hates being a woman, America Ferrera\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-was-plus-size-ken-in-barbie\/\" title=\"Where was the inclusion of 'Plus-Size Ken' in 'Barbie'?\">character condemns female body standards enshrined<\/a> in the Barbie\u200b of 1959.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be\u2064 thin, but not too thin,\u201d she complains at the top of her\u200b monologue. \u201cAnd you can \u2063never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also, you have\u2063 to be thin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vilifying those who care about their health, meanwhile, is just \u200cblatant pro-fat activism.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the film isn\u2019t for the boys. After all, the Barbie franchise always catered to\u200b little girls. But\u200c if the movie\u2019s \u200bcreators cared to get their message across to those they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/barbie-review-margot-robbie-greta-gerwig-ryan-gosling-mattel-256b6688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vilified<\/a> most, the casting directors might have been wise\u2063 to practice the inclusion\u2063 they preach, especially when such decisions \u200cgo to the core of the message.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it\u2019s exhausting to engage in the leftist-styled commentary that flags\u2064 the one identity group left out of the conversation on a particular topic.\u2063 On \u2062the other, it\u2019s worth mentioning that the toxic concept of \u201cbody positivity\u201d always seems to go one way, to the detriment of women, especially for a film that engages in such \u2064victim-style \u2064activism, to begin with. It\u2019s never fat guys who end up on the cover of men\u2019s health magazines.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>One year after Cosmopolitan covers \u2062pitch obesity to young girls, Self Magazine\u200b debuts new front page doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t matter that obesity\u2062 triples one\u2019s risk of hospitalization with \u2062COVID-19, \u2063apparently.\u200b (h\/t: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicalelle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@politicalelle<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hrgx0VtEEd\">pic.twitter.com\/Hrgx0VtEEd<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>      \u2014 Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JusticeTristan\/status\/1481118968941137921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The \u200cmessage we\u2019re left with is that it\u2019s ok when women project\u200b their own so-called unrealistic body expectations on\u200d men, but \u200dthe men better not dare \u2064reciprocate. And if Barbie were truly\u2063 representative of our\u2064 neighbors,\u200c almost everyone would have been \u201cplus size.\u201d That\u2019s actually a \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/19\/70-percent-of-american-adults-are-now-overweight-a-new-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington \u2062Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also\u2063 been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political\u2064 science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up\u200b for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Gerwig&#8217;s Barbieland features a feminist icon resembling the classic Barbie, which initially faced criticism from activists. Margot Robbie, with her blonde hair, curvy figure, and hourglass shape, was chosen to portray the &#8220;stereotypical Barbie&#8221; in Hollywood&#8217;s new blockbuster, set in a pink-tinted fairytale world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1983270,"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-1983269","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\/1983269","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}