The starting point of the movie Barbie is the triumph of second-wave feminism, the liberation of the feminine from the constricting social role of the past, but it is marred by Barbie’s complete alienation from the truth of the Universe: a Love Story.
This truth of Reality as relationship and evolution of relationships is pathologized and put in the mouth of patriarchy. Intimacy is shared identity in the context of (relative) otherness, but while Ken represents a longing towards shared identity without individuation (fusion), Barbie is pure individuation, pure otherness.
Therefore, there can be no intimacy between them, no “Barbie and Ken”, even though Reality is “Barbie and Ken” — circles and lines — all the way down and all the way up the evolutionary chain.
Dr. Marc Gafni calls the movie Barbie the most dangerous movie ever made (or at least recently). And not dangerous in a good way. Barbie speaks dangerous words —
which are insidious,
which undermine the joy of Reality,
which are empirically not valid, but pretend to be valid,
that have hosts of hidden assumptions which are actually dogmatic, and which are setting the agenda of culture.
Reality is ErosValue all the way up and all the way down. You cannot cut off the flower at its root and expect the flower to bloom. The rose wilts after a few years.
You can’t cut off love from its roots in the Field of ErosValue and expect love to remain real.
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟬 𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗧:
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