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This is an insult to Barbie. Barbie would never.
I’m more bothered by the fact that it’s not enough of an insult for this piece of shit. Barbie is supposed to be some sort of idealized female form. That does not fit for Noem at all, in my opinion, and it’s also irrelevant.
I prefer to call her Gravel Pit, to remind people of where she hides her mistakes. Neither she, nor anyone else, should ever be allowed to forget that she dragged a puppy into a gravel pit and shot it solely because she failed to train it and then bragged about it in her book. She is a horrible human being, utterly lacking in compassion, and any name for her should highlight that aspect of her being rather than any physical traits she may or may not possess.
The term Barbie as an insult goes back a long time, just as Barbie does. I’m not entirely familiar with recent re-interpretations (I didn’t watch the movie from a few years ago.) But one traditional interpretation is that Barbie is plastic, and women who have had cosmetic surgery are sometimes referred to as plastic. That seems to fit a lot women in trumps circle. Or just “fake” in general both in appearance and personality.
The definition I know from old times is plastic body with empty head. A dumb girl that only have looks going for her.
Ironically, ICE Barbie would be deported form Barbieland
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Barbie does whatever makes the corporation money…
They’d 100% release an actual ICE Barbie if they thought it would make money.
Fuck fascists and all that, but it doesn’t mean we have to defend corporations that will sell us out for a slightly higher short term profit margin
I’m talking about Barbie, the fictional character. Growing up watching and loving the direct-to-video Barbie movies, I’m certain that Barbie absolutely would never.
Barbie isn’t sentient…
A corporation decides what she would or would not do.
The recent movie was all about female empowerment, but if the corp decides the far right would give them more money, then the sequel will be about how great working at a concentration camp is.
Omg, I’m literally not talking about corporations, though? Barbie is a well-established character. It embodies a concept.
My bad, didn’t realize you were a 12 hour account, we’ve probably been thru something like this on your last account too.
No worries, I’ll handle it.
I mentioned Barbie, a fictional character, and you responded as if I had deified Mattel. I clarified what I meant, but you continued with an unprompted anti-capitalism rant and even insinuated that I’m a troll. Very mature and pleasant of you. P.S. As someone whose country already endured 42 years of communist, anti-West/anti-capitalist rule, please spare me the anti-capitalism rant next time. Thanks.
If this is your first account here, don’t worry, we’re not all like this.
fascism wears many hats. these tankie motherfuckers wear the bolshevik-fascism hat. they don’t understand that we can take a stock character given to us by a corporation, like barbie, and run with it as an aspect of remix culture because they are domination culture colonisers who cosplay as anti-imperialists. they are just as dangerous and nonsensical as ancaps.
good for you for knowing enough about who you are and what you’re about to stay strong in “this isn’t about the corporation but the stock character”
bruh
I mean… the movie kinda points that out, too. The exec straight-up changes his tune on the idea of a realistic Barbie when he’s told it will sell.
It does a pretty good job of pointing out all aspects of Barbie, good and bad. From female empowerment to consumerism to the objectification of women and the issues surrounding body shaming.
It even calls out the film itself for casting an unrealistically beautiful, successful woman to play Barbie.
And it did all of that because some executive thought that would make the most money…
If they thought the opposite message would have made more money, that’s what the character would have done.
Like, I dunno.
It doesn’t seem that complicated to me, but apparently it is.
If art is good, I’ll appreciate it even when the people funding it aren’t doing it for the love of art.
Nothing wrong with that, I really enjoyed it too.
But that doesn’t mean the next movie will be the same.
Are you comparing an ordinary, common toy to a top fascist government official? They’re referring to Barbie the cartoon character. Deranged though she is, Kristi Noem isn’t some piece of plastic getting stamped out by the millions and sold to children for playtime.
Fuck BigCorp, sure, but it doesn’t mean we always need to assign a deeper meaning to someone’s post beyond what they’ve said
Had the same thought. I hadn’t heard the term and I totally believed Mattel had just released an I. C. E Barbie. I’m sure they track in focus groups and we probably aren’t too far off from that model flipping to being net profitable despite the poor liberal press.
I agree they totally would do this if they thought it would make money.
But I think they realize by doing an ICE Barbie they would piss off and alienate a lot of customers. So they are not touching this with a ten foot baton.
