Actually it was that you should provoke infighting between reactionaries so you can stage a coup and seize power

Wut. It was "get your vag checked"

don't forget to suppress the votes of your opponents.

No the message at the end of the Barbie Movie was go to the gynecologist.

You say that like there’s better politics in other movies

Isn't the part after that Barbie rejecting living in the Barbie world? Like, she recognizes that that world is fake and chooses to live in the real one instead. That felt more like the "point" of the movie to me - stop playing with dolls and thinking that there's a simple solution to patriarchy. Unfortunately there was no scene where Barbie joins a Maoist guerilla group but maybe they're saving that for the sequel.

the politics were utterly incoherent. for me the really resonant part was where barbie meets her creator. i thought that was really well done.

Probably not the intent of the movie but I’m choosing to believe that doing it in a fake world where the laws of reality don’t apply and everything is literally plastic was part of the point

Lol no

The final challenge could have been anything, the point was to have some deadline to give urgency to the plot.

It could perfectly been a beachvolleyball match and it wouldnt have changed the plot at all. But in that case you would have posts on this site saying "The mesage of Barbie is that women need to get better at volleyball to defeat patriarchy".

I thought it was going in a pretty amusing way, had a voter apathy bit for barbie and shit. Then it really fumbled it into WE GOTTA SAVE THE CONSTITUTION which was both expected and dumb.

The message in the movie is that voting works hence confirming it is a work of fiction.

Also Mattel is literally the deep state

It was a commercial with some tepid liberalism 🥱

Mattel has multiple movies in the works

But don’t fall prey to my ideals and please continue to still enjoy dumb shit y’all, my brain is absolutely broken

I always figured that because Barbie world was the opposite of our world, the fact that voting worked in Barbie world means that it doesn't in the real world. Like I thought the whole "lol just vote them out, they're not even paying attention" bit was supposed to show how silly thinking that's how the real world works is - like a child's understanding of politics.