Evangelicals rail against Barbie, demand Americans not take children to see film

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I was down at my local cinema to see The Tunnel into Summer, The Exit to Goodbyes and I’m guessing there was a preview screening of Barbie kicking off at the same time given the number of women in pink outfits who looked very excited. They’ve had a life-sized Barbie toy box that you can step into to get your photo taken and it’s been very cute seeing adults and children of various gender expression getting in and posing.

Suffice it to say it seems to be bringing a lot of joy to people regardless of what the anti-fun brigade rant about.

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Streisand Effect anyone?

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If anyone had told me a year ago that freakin’ Barbie would be regarded as a subverter of gender norms, my head would have exploded.

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Barbie Streisand approves.

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you might want to check the expiration date on your dried frog pills there… /silly, sarcastic

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I wasn’t really planning on seeing this, but MILLIONS OF DEMONS RELEASED ON YOUR CHILDREN?

THAT I gotta see!

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This guy is just saying the quiet (marketing) parts out loud. Edglord extremist evangelicals definitely know that any press is good press for them. Irony/hate shares are still attention, and they have a side benefit of driving the us-vs-them narrative his flock feeds on. Not to mention the opportunity for holier than thou finish of “we even love the haters.” I bet he’s fully aware of his Streisand effect on the movie as well. If the movie gets bigger, so can his outrage. It’s full on symbiotic.

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Sigh. Who cares what the American Taliban thinks?

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ummm… we’ve had this conversation before.
american evangelical christofascists were assholes long before there even was a taliban.
the taliban assholes fashioned themselves after the evangelicals.

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my god. we can only hope.

( and it isn’t even christmas! )

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Consider this stolen.

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That’s great. It hadn’t occurred to me before, but Cockring sounds like it should be a market town in Essex.

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Good sir, you’ve earned yourself a room in the Malibu Mansion. :wink:
@anon61221983 and others have been making this point for so long, it is really nice to see others jumping in.

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Consider it me bringing it to you engravened on a stone tablet.

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I get so angry when I see some dirty, dirty sinner wearing a mixture of linen and wool. When the lord comes he’s definitely going to smite all those eaters of shellfish too.
Dirty sinners.
Great! Now I need to go and take a cold shower.

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Wow! TIL:

ETA: I think this article gets to the heart of exactly why they hate it…

“Mainly, though, it’s because Barbie Land’s an expressly woman-controlled utopia reminiscent of Steven Universe’s Gem Homeworld, where neither misogyny nor the concept of a patriarchy exists because that’s not what Barbie™ is about.”

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Well, Ken was certainly evil in Toy Story 3…at least for most of it.

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Sugihara Chiune saved more Jews, earlier, with less to gain, and at greater personal expense, but it’s still called Schindler’s List.

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i don’t think that holds, because when people say christians are becoming, or are like, the taliban it does a number of things:

it removes the real history and much of the responsibility for why islamist extremists have the power they do ( inverting the directionality )

it “others” islam, painting it as different or strange - when we’ve always had the same elements of violence and desire for repression here ( see also: white christians fighting against civil rights )

it hides the harms that evangelicals are doing here and abroad currently ( see also: uganda )

to me it seems it doesn’t highlight anything new, instead it seems to obscure. likening it to other moral panicss, or maybe to victorian morals might be better analogies

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