Morgan and Paul came out with a video on the Barbie movie (which I actually watched), and I need to start blogging regularly again because otherwise, why do I have this blog?

*spoilers ahoy*

Barbie isn’t hard on men and it’s really a movie made for adults who grew up playing with Barbies. The movie is satire. Satire is silly, exaggerated, and over the top in order to make it’s point. The fact they mentioned how over the top Ken and his patriarchy was and how exaggerated the movie was it’s like duh. That is what makes satire satirical. In Barbie’s case, the movie is a critique of patriarchy, and a very silly one at that. The patriarchy Ken introduces is ridiculous but understandable, because the Kens are treated unfairly in Barbie’s feminist utopia.

In Barbieland, the Kens are treated exactly how men have treated women in real life throughout history (minus the abuse, rape, and killing of women), yet by the movies end Barbie realizes the way she treated Ken (and other Kens) is wrong, something neither Morgan nor Paul acknowledge. Barbie does love Ken just not romantically, and Ken realizes he doesn’t need to be defined by his relationship with Barbie or his job as Beach in order to be happy or whole, but is Kenough on his own. The movie even ends (in my opinion) with a fairly conservative message with Barbie embracing being a woman and her own body with all its “flaws” and with a montage showing what it means to be a woman from birth, childhood, motherhood, and so on. Things that are uniquely female.

Anyway, Morgan and Paul’s critique of this movie as being intense, so political, feminist, and woke is hilarious, because the movie is none of those things. Like frankly I’m not a fan of how “woke” many movies have become mainly because the focus is on being inclusive, diverse, or whatever, but then the plot sucks, acting sucks, characters are developed poorly, writing is terrible, and the movie is basically riding off the fact that many people will support something that’s inclusive even if it sucks.

That said, Barbie isn’t a movie that bashes men, but a movie that points out that both Barbie and Ken were wrong, patriarchy benefits neither Barbie or Ken, but the female-dominated utopia in the beginning of the movie isn’t good either. However, Morgan and Paul are only able to see the movie through their conservative bias. A bias which insists any movie critical of patriarchy and supportive of women in power is automatically super woke and liberal, and insinuating men are trash. Even when the movie really says none of those things, their conservative branding tells them that they must insist the movie is all of these things anyway, because conservatives have made Hollywood the enemy. So we get videos like this which lack any sort of nuance or depth, because Morgan and Paul have to stay on brand.

The funniest part of the video is around the 11:50 mark where Paul talks about rooting for Ken. Ken who reduced the women to slaves and men to loud morons who drink lots of beer, something even the Barbie’s didn’t do? It’s not giving Jesus to me, but I digress.

Men are not trash and I’m also sick of hearing that, even unironically. But Paul here is trash, making fun of girls who dressed up for a movie. The Bible says, “[l]et no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” Making fun of tweens dressing up in pink doesn’t sound much like building others up.

Alas, Morgan and Paul are “…like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.” They are hearers of the Word, but not doers because for these two getting YouTube views will always be more important to them than behaving like Jesus and spreading the gospel.

Anyway, to end on a slightly positive note, I appreciate the fact Paul was able to enjoy the movie like a normal human being and also, Morgan SAME. Margot Robbie is very attractive and I too watch movies with her in it simply because I enjoy looking at her.