this was so beautiful, as a leftist barbie fan my #1 barbie recommendation to convince others of barbies marxism is barbie princess charm school. Shows a late stage capitalist dystopia where proletariat overworked barbie lives in the urban ghetto. shows failure of unitary governments, especially ones run by political elites to address problems of the lower classes like good infrastructure in outlying areas (her apartment is surrounded by urban sprawl, pot holes, noise pollution from subways, area being described as dangerous and unsafe), medicare (no nationalized healthcare in barbies world she has to support both her little sister and sick mom), gentrification (the queen plans to remove poorer neighborhoods for sake of beautification and green spaces). the princess charm school sticks the only 2 racial minority students and the poor kid into a room together, and all the future royal elites appropriate working class culture when they think blaires outfit made of cut up clothes is cool (perfect example of reverse hierarchal diffusion). Classism is the biggest theme in the movie with commoners being referred to as completely different people to royals. my favorite line is when blaire protects her people when the queen wants to bulldoze the ghetto,"People live in those areas you just knocked down, my neighborhoods there, how are those people supposed to move? theyre like me, they don't have any money." of course when she gets her nemesis to abdicate the throne she just becomes queen herself instead of creating a democracy, it still preaches how working class people should have autonomy over decisions affecting themselves.

@tensai.productions

10 ай бұрын

PEAK

@bubbles4897

9 ай бұрын

To say that a doll created by a corporate company is a MARXIST is so dense to the point that I’m concerned

@chloedsmith

9 ай бұрын

​@@bubbles4897cause of course, corporations don't employ people who can make their own choices and slip things into media, nothing ever happens ever.

@firstnamelastname153

9 ай бұрын

On the fashion side of this. Is reverse hierarchical diffusion the same thing that happened with jeans and leather?

@AmoebaInk

9 ай бұрын

Classism is a concern of many who are not convinced Marxism is the solution. Democracies have their own challenges, and completely restructuring a government system is a long, time consuming process, but if you're going to do it, it's easier to achieve from a position of power.

wait, moving to a new city, finding a girl who has your same name and you become roomates and girlfriends? Did Barbie take inspiration from NANA by Ai Yazawa??

@tensai.productions

9 ай бұрын

omg yes I can't believe I didn't make that connection 😂

@laine5606

9 ай бұрын

The OG voice actress for Barbie played Nana too omg

@SebastianSeanCrow

9 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t be surprised, it wouldn’t be the first time someone in the west was inspired by Nana (I actually only sought it out as a child cuz an author I was reading at the time said it was really good and even names one of his characters Nana)

@SebastianSeanCrow

9 ай бұрын

@@laine5606I guess that’s why she sounded so familiar 😂

You know, i usually drown myself in deep mental thought of like, "we need change, i dont want to die on an earth that cant survive. I want to be taken seriously in the work place as a woman of color. I want to save our planet, i want people to feel accepted. I want...i want." I get so depressed because i realize im only one person. But realizing that small change is still change helps a lot. Barbie was made to show girls children what they could be but she was still created by a capitalistic money hungry organization, but what matters is how she inspires us to change things. Im just one person, i know that, but i cant dwell on the fact im just one, inspiring people to do good deeds, even as one person shows what barbie still means to this day. Barbie could be anything, but she was only one barbie, thats why she inspired people to be anything too.

@olympiaelda1121

9 ай бұрын

Feeling less alone because of you

@cess8861

8 ай бұрын

I feel this so much.

@istalkghosts497

7 ай бұрын

your're not the only one

When i was a child i bought Barbie of swan lake DVD and in the special features there was a documentary called The music in you. They interviewed successfull girls that played classical music. And in that interview was Nicola Benedetti. My brother loved that segment and it inspired him to play the violin. Now he is a proffesional musician and lives in Germany.

@EchelonPandora

7 ай бұрын

Crazy and inspiring

44:54 wow, "Evangelion" suffered the same destiny as "500 Days Of Summer", both tryed to critique and question the genre and people ended up missing this point and consuming it as if it was another work of the same genre and nothing else 😮

At the beginning i didn't understand why the algorithm recommended me this video, had i not been doing my hair i probably would've abandoned halfway through as i felt this wasn't going to be the usual deep dive that would've been full of nuance and hard-hitting questions and conclusions, but i'm glad i stuck around till the end, the way the video morphed was so sudden and seamless at the same time, that by the time you were getting existential i was like... "Wasn't i watching a Barbie deep dive?", i even had to double check to make sure, and there was the title proving thay yes, i was still watching that Barbie deep dive i clicked, surprised and confused i kept warching as i was interested in how you were gonna wrap up everything, and i have to say, that conclusion helped me a lot, i have recently been struggling with my hero complex, as i want to somehow change the world in radical ways just by being myself, but have been feeling distressed about how that may be unlikely and utopic, and have had internal discussions surrounding that, your video really helped me remind myself of a point i had long heard and have long been discussing internally, and one i think that may be the most realistic, going for small change. It may not seem like much, but you never know who you are transforming by being you, you don't know how much you are changing the world by inspiring people, changing a single person's viewpoint our outlook for life is earth-shattering, who knows how much hate and bitterness that person would've carried and fostered had you not been around, who knows how clueless or ignorant to a certain topic they may have been had you not talked about it and made them question themselves. I guess what i'm going for is small change is change, perhaps not the one you would've wanted but it doesn't make any less impactful, you don't know how much that one thing, that one action, that one person you helped change can help the overall world, but you know that is a step in the right direction, your contribution may have helped cancel something much sinister, and it most definitely adds to that snowball that gets bigger and bigger everyday, waiting to implode and cause that big impact you so much desire. I thank you for helping me in my journey of shifting towards a "small change" mentality, i may not live by it today, but i know that if one day i do live by it, this video would've been a contributor to it, a small but helpful contributor reminding of how life truly works, helping me shift from the idealism of youth towards something else, another mindset that as much as i want to conciously construct, i will never be able to fully know and articulate until i live by it. Thanks for your video, never delete it, you never know who may need it ❤.

@tensai.productions

10 ай бұрын

This is literally why I make things. I'm glad my own grappling with my place in this world under the guise of a Barbie deep dive resonated with someone else. Peace and love ☮❤

@zaraj22

10 ай бұрын

love This comment

My stuffed animals also did battle and had family relations, not really many romantic ones but definitely family and platonic ones. But most importantly, they did battle!

Man you made me wish someone made an analog horror series of the barbie dance club, like i don’t know, making the barbie dolls end humanity buy turning everything in plastic starting on that dance party. I don’t know, maybe i am just too addicted to internet stories.

You should be much more popular, the video was a great watchz keep going

“The only labels we believe in are designer” bahahahahahaha

This got so deep that I'm going to have to rewatch it. Incredible amount of thought and introspection involved here. I'm a sociology student (currently doing my master's on gender and sports culture) and I have a vested interest in the cycle of empowerment and disenfranchisement. Capitalism has a way of commodifying what it oppressed. Indeed, white women were (and still are) oppressed by white men, but their empowerment is mainly focused on the empowerment of ONLY white women. As such, Barbie is a symbol of the resistance AND obedience to the capitalist white supremacist patriarchy. While she embodies the inherently white nature of beauty standards (while all other outliers are inherently racialized and therefore "ugly"), she also gently pushes back against the patriarchy from which she was formed by inspiring young girls to dream of their futures outside of child rearing. I really like how this ties into your stunning conclusion on inspiration. Barbie is in no way able to change the world (and the most recent movie is a reinforcement of such archaic pop feminism that this point still stands), but she is able to inspire children into aspiring for a better (more Marxist?) world. No one can do it all, but they can lay some of the groundwork for others to push further. Thanks for this amazing video! I needed a healthy dose of existential horror today. I almost got too comfortable in my paradoxical socialist existence in a capitalist system 💀

Just realized that my favourite Barbie movies from when I was little are the two that everyone reads as being gay. Like damn I really was born a lesbian huh?

Barbie is when i discovered dating women sounds like a good idea and why don't ppl do it more, i was infact bi

My Barbies also had superpowers and massive battles and a long running story and lore that my sister and I built together..

"You're no status quo calico" The fact that most calico's are female and the ones that are "male" are actually intersex really gives some backing to the trans cat allegory.

Yes!! Absolutely agree with everything! Your the conclusion was just utterly beautiful, summed up exactly how I feel Barbie should be understood! Barbie is warped and molded to fit the white patriarchal capitalist ideals, because she was made that way by her ‘creators’. But yet a rainbow of love, kindness, and generosity peaks through and shines out. Watching Barbie as a young girl (2005-10, best era!) I was molded and inspired by her adventurous, mythical, and loving spirit.

Tensai: these can only get better Me: *laughs in watching it all backwards*

Excellent commentary! And I cannot believe you managed to put into words the fact that some Barbie movies shoot themselves in the foot with their messaging. Something always bothered me about that and I just... couldn't point to it.

i love this because it feels like you took your still beating heart out of your chest and put it on display for us to see and then we did the same back

Goodness gracious did that interlude have an impact on me. Thank you for this work of art, this filled the hole that that new Barbie movie left in me. I feel understood and heard, even if I do not know what to do with all these feelings but communicate them to my loved ones.

even tho I've been a barbie fan and collector since forever so I already know everything about the brand, this was really interesting and I loved your point of view

That comment about don’t hurt yourself when you realize you can’t fix everything on your own and showing Kurt? Hit me in the feels real hard. Great ending to the essay

wow. i have never seen your channel before but i definitely gasped a bit when i saw your sub number. this video was so well written as well as entertaining, you deserve so much more attention! new subscriber here :) well approved from a hardcore barbie stan 👏

hey man, this is beautiful, peak franchise critique, your work deserves SO MUCH attention

I loved how all the little text bits were eva esque. I genuinely love your style of video essaying and hope you reboot the eva essay like u said in the video! Keep up the great work!

The Ryan "literally me" Gosling part earned you a new sub

You insired me to do my part, thankyou for living your life and expressing your thoughts with us.

I absolutely loved this video! The dedication you have to watches every single barbie movie is insane!!!:The early barbie movies literally raised me. I have so many fond memories of watching and rewatching the movies with my sisters and cousins. My sister and I had a lot of dolls from the movies (the marketing worked lol). Rewatching these movies as an adult and recognizing the leftist and queer themes makes me so happy. It’s like my childhood "grew up" with me. For example, watching princess and the pauper now, I always cry during the song about the dog. I have come out and left the religion I grew up with. That song and Barbie herself taught me that it is okay to be different, and that I am worthy of love regardless of how well i fit into society. Thank you for such a well thought out video! I'm excited to see what you create next! ❤

4:41 the guy in this time stamped shop is Gabriel in Good Omens

This was an a amazing deep dive into Barbie from some one who didn't grow up with them. I really appreciate all the hard work you put into this. It's kinda given me a new appreciation for Barbie, after literally tossing them aside as I grew up. And now i low-key wanna watch Malibu and Brooklyn in their TV show...

how the hell do you only have 2k subs??? I'm changing that, I'm gonna send your channel to my friends, your content is genuinely amazing, I don't normally say stuff like this, but this video genuinely moved me in a way that I haven't felt in a long time. Thank you for making these essays, they're genuinely pieces of art.

Love the sense of humor

this video is so well made and amazing im so serious. At first glance, it is another video essay going to deep in a topic when it didn't really have to with a clickbait bonkers title but their is so much about barbie that can and should be un-earthed. Im not even joking this opened my eyes to so much to things that are pretty much/more or less on the surface, the points that you pointed out were actually mind blowing, mind bogglin, mind altering even why not. As someone that enjoyed barbie and barbie movies growing up i thouroughly enjoyed this video in a celestial and orgasimic level, watching you narrate your points and findings (idk i feel like im using the wrong words) and how you talked about art and artists just made me weak on my knees, JUST BRILLIANT. Ofcourse i cant mention everything you said, i dont have the best memory, but what i do remember is when i heard specific things you said i squealed inside full of agreement and joy. The way you somehow brought Evangelion and Barbie in the same plane is just ASTONISHING. Amazing vid 10/10 50 minutes well spent would share would (not) watch again 👍

Omg you actually brought up a vegan message. It really confuses me why there hasn't been any vegan barbies.

this is incredible and made me cry, please keep up your work because im genuinely interested in your view of this world

I clicked on this video solely on a whim, but my god do I not regret it. I've watched a LOT of video essays.... and not all of them have been good. I think this one might be my all-time favourite. I can't thank you enough for this video, can't wait to see more from you in the future!

This was so in depth and gave great insight, thank you so much for researching and making this, I hope it gets the recognition it deserves! Keep up the good work!

Omg i think I recognize that voice actor for the evil boys barbie lady in that Bratz movie

I'm absolutely blown away by your vids already, I just finished this one after your most recent one about forced romance and I'm so excited to go through your channel content and whatever else you put out

I've found that the only good way to survive the modern condition is through compassion and forgiveness. We are all hypocrites. We will all fail to live up to our ideals. We should cut everyone some slack. Good video.

Really great video. Both insightful and fun to watch!!!

I'm just so glad u liked the Barbie movies looooool. XD those CG Tinkerbell movies were something too. I was like a teen when they came out but any younger siblings my friends had would watch them and they were also kinda gayyyyyyyy

beautiful video, ive been binging your channel and your content is incredible, this one made me cry

The interesting thing is this is both more current Barbie media and Evangelion seem to have somewhat of the same message. That were not just the clothes we wear or the superfical things we own which is true. But their point kind of devolves into but were not anything we do outside of our minds or physical selves. It would be like someone walking up to Jesus and telling him hes not personally defined by the miracles he perfomed or dying for our sins but by some truer internal DEEPER form of himself that should make him happier outside of anything he did for the outside world and he should just focus on that. But most people find that way of thinking rediculous. By that form of philosophy then EVERYTHING we do is superflous and meaningless. Nothing has any worth. all actions are as spiritually empty as doing something self destructive like substance abuse or blatant crime of any form. The Barbie movie outright says neither of the main characters are defined by literally any action or like in anything they did in their doll life. Any action they performed is meaningless, every life choice is pointless. Every plot point devolves both Barbie and Ken into figures that any good was just as frivolous and emotionally empty as any harm. Even at one point America Ferreras character asks why cant their be a plain Barbie that looks like most women and isnt perfect in everything she does. But many critics point out in Many scenes there is a plus size Barbie who many would say does represent the "Average" woman who would be a fan of the toys but the film also makes it seem as if shes not good enough for that point and is also hollow as a aspirational figure. Just as their should be limits on superficiality, there are also limits on what is and isnt meaningful. Barbies critics seem to be trying to make her trully Plastic just a empty figure who shouldnt be inspirational even as a fictional character and anyone who looks to her should just apparently just be happy with simply existing and find No fullfilment in anything they do outside of that base existence.

Today, the algorithm showed me another video of you, and now I'm here watching this one, and subscribing to your channel. It feels great be in the first 1000 subscribers for such amazing content.

These are great dude! I've watched a few so far and you are so well spoken. They really are getting better. Can't wait to see more of the great creations you make!

Somehow this ended up on my recommends and somehow I ended up liking and subbing😅😅 great work! I didn't know I wanted this but I'm glad I got so much of it and so much more (watched 2 of your other videos already)

One of the best videos I've ever seen, holy shit man, I was expecting one of those silly recaps of something, but what I got instead was one of the best essays I've ever seen, when you started to talk about the barbie cleaning Malibu movie, I started laughing, your analysis was so good that I legitimately forgot I was watching a Barbie video, I don't agree with every point but the sheer effort and overall good writing of this video has me in shambles, 10/10

Excellent video! I hope you keep making videos. Sharing this on my social media.

Ignoring all the other issues covered here, the download on the whole history of Barbie on screen was awesome. I saw some Dream House when my kids were watching it, so it was great to get an idea of the larger history.

Instantly subscribed! Keep up the good content. Congrats

Excellent video essay, mate. I love the rich nuisance you brought to the barbie discourse that seems missing from most conversations. Cant wait to watch your other think pieces. Subscribed.

YOU'RE SO UNDERRATED!! Don't forget me when you're famous

wonderful editing skills here

was schocked to see you didnt have as many subscribers as i tought, also make more barbie content i subbed and i am already a fan, keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tensai, You are one of the few video essayists that I watch all the way through. I love your videos - they always nail the point and get me thinking. Also glad to see you are a fellow Lynch fan. Maybe I will see a Lynch vid in the future. Anyway, great video and Happy New Year! - the stranger

damn this channel deserves more subscribers then its got! I cant wait to watch more of your videos!!

1,9 k views?? I was expecting to look down and see at LEAST a few hundred thousand :'D a GREAT essay with sm work put into it, and VERY entertaining video, so many props to u !!

My favorite Barbie movie was Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses

This is an well written piece and your video is easy to follow!

Having older sisters I won’t forget the fever dream that is the Barbie movies

I genuinely thought I saw the number wrong when I checked the view count and it was only around 8000. Maybe it’s just me but my favourite sort of KZread videos are long, well researched, and well articulated and this one checked all of the boxes and more! Subscribed now because I believe you when you say it’s only going to get better from here ❤

Omg this is wonderful, you're amazing xD

39:29 I was going to mention MyScene! They were made by Mattel but were like a hybrid of Bratz and Barbie in their design lol

Great video!

Barbie is more queer sensibility than white feminism

i chpse to watch this on a whim and i wasnt expectin it to go this deep. . . especially that interlude ✋😭

Thank you for this masterpiece

Such a well defined video

Never expected a Barbie video to be this wonderful. Thank you :)

Regarding the remark about riding horses, it can be moral. Raleigh Link, a vegan horse owner, has a whole channel devoted to advocating for and providing ethical equine care.

21:00 barbie's wings are the colours of the pansexual flag here - pink yellow and blue

I will remain a Fan Person for Generation 1 Monster High But that Barbie Movie has grown in my heart and have Hopes for Barbie Squels

27:45 Bro casually teasing his bomb shell video about the "ideal romance"

this video slapped, thank you algorithm for introducing me to this channel

Barbie and the rockers movie looks a bit like sailor moon. Be amazing if it became a series back in the day ❤️💖🌸

The last Barbie movie I watched was The secret door. At that point it felt a little too corporate or soulless, I had outgrown Barbie I've never seen the sister series

This video should have way more than 9k views.

AMAZING VID!!!!❤

great video

16:30 i saw at least one writer/director explicitly say she supported queer Barby content in the farytopia/mermaid movies

I cried. I loved it

growing up with my sisters we used to make our toys battle each other too. An we didn't like dolls so much because they hurt when playfighting. Stuffed animals are best.

Barbie is not a lesbian just because she wants all the careers and not be tied down to a man does NOT make her a lesbian

@ghkdus030

9 ай бұрын

no one cares

@leanetaillandier70

9 ай бұрын

I think it's more about the emotional connections she forms with other people. When it comes to men (or Kens), they're almost only made to move the plot, they aren't important for her personal development, or self discovery journey. Meanwhile, other women (or Barbies), have meaningful impacts in her life. Yes, saying she is a lesbian can be an exaggeration, but let's be honest... She has more chemistry with her "friends" than her "boyfriend" and that's something that's been pointed out for a long time.

@AmoebaInk

9 ай бұрын

@@leanetaillandier70 Many straight women have deep and impactful female friendships. The current trend in media to try to sexualize any deep relationship is highly problematic. Most of the impactful relationships in life are not sexual.

I did NOT remember the barbie Rapunzel movie being THAT badly animated 💀

great video :)

I don't think moviemakers intentionally were making Barbie a lesbian (not at first anyway). It's written for little, little girls that are more than likely more interested in friendship with other little girls, and when you're that age friendship can be like a romance.

Existential horror Barbie movies would be great tbh

the intro has me rolling xD

36:03 i knew that voice _immediately._

@badunladun4203

9 ай бұрын

EDAAA!

Holy fuck Bild Lilli got the Bild part from the newspaper BILD, also known as toilet paper here in Germany. Now, I don't know if BILD was already that horrendous back in the day, but if it was...

I just got a Barbie Chelsea camper advertisement. 😭

If only we told our girls growing up that they are Kenough.

Thanks to trend, I discovered u. Nietzschean notes bout this got me caught

no but talks about intersectionality are so damn important when it comes to movements. i was literally thinking about the whole “diversity, equality and inclusion” thing companies keep blasting but will stick with a certain look. it minimizes the issues and the impact of those issues on marginalized communities. i’ve said this before… you deserve a damn show

I would love to know your thoughts about Barbie after the Barbie live action movie comes out, assuming that you see it.

@tensai.productions

9 ай бұрын

I made a community post about it (also posted a longer review on my letterboxd)

So, wait - this bff thing is not actually a real thing? I am trans and when I came out, the first thing was to find a best friend like that and while there were a few homoerotic instances over the years, and there also was this phase when I thought I was in love with her but eventually it transformed to match the friendship love that she felt for me. I know that I consciously tried to learn about womanhood by watching those movies and series that had inspired the women i knew but I now am starting to understand that she must have been going along with what she used to only know from movies and after years we noticed that friendships such as ours are really rare. To us it meant only that other people don't value their friendships enough because to us, we became more like family than our respective families. We even did friendship rituals and promised each other to remain forever friends. When she became pregnant from her new boyfriend (who i met before they started getting closer and directly thought that he would be a perfect fit for her), she was very distant during the pregnancy and nearing the end we got into a big fight because she wanted to baptise the child like the father was and I had very strong reservations. It was that time when I started to talk of her not that much as my best friend anymore but instead as basically my sister because I feel like we have just become family. I eventually gave up on dating women and eventually on any dating beyond friendship with benefits... Felt like I lost my ability to love even though I did fall in love a couple of times and last Beltane, I conmected to a guy online and what was supposed to be an intimate friendship with bemefits turned into something else that became extremely important to me and to him too and I just became used to feeling this kinda sisterly but also kinda inappropriate between real siblings at times sort of love for her and lately, I started to wonder if because we went through hell together for such a long time, we might have bonded in a more sibling like way. Sometimes I wonder if it's maybe actually a sort of asexual love between us but that idea only works in my polyamorous perspective while for her being monogamous, it's simply that she feels start a family love for him and best friends love for me. Noe, I had a gut instinct thst something about this video might trigger me but I never knew that Barbie (and generally female best friend relationships) often have a second layer of a lesbian relationship shining through. Now, I feel like something is about to make sense but that I really wish it didn't. Like what if these very intimate mostly asexual (finding each other attractive and there was something before I had bottom surgery, really long ago) friendships amongst women that just happen between women who just happen to be bisexual in different shades and who just happen to both be beautiful and therefore see each other this way... I mean those friendships do also exist don't they? Then again, the thing we have today where we aren't seeing each other almost every day anymore and even not write in WhatsApp for entire days without being in a fight - flash of realization, don't love it - like we have a good thing going. I didn't end up having the child we both wished for (like not the same child necessarily, we just both wished to become pregnant and believed it was impossible - which only for me was actually true) but she did. And she has a great guy to support her. I found a guy who is also kinda great. Didn't expect it to end up getting this deep though. It's a good place to stop questioning this special friendship because we are both in relatively good situations right now and we are in happy partnerships and our friendship hasn't been this relaxed for long... Also, i kinda accidentally steered this fwb into becoming more and more of a relationship because over the months I got addicted to his presence and eventually (as in: yesterday) it hit the point where I felt like I had no more options but to tell him that I can't continue seeing him unless he agrees to see me at least once a week even if only for a couple hours at worst. Like, I know that it's probably not asking much of a partner but it was supposed to be a friendship with great sex, being healthy for each other and neither side doing anything at all they don't truly want. Next thing (as in a bit over 4 months later), I threaten to end it to enforce a fucking schedule and I just couldn't continue with him otherwise and we had just kinda promised to hold on to each other because neither wanted to lose the respective other and so I didn't see not telling him and just fleeing as an option and being okay with less, I just wasn't and I couldn't do anything to change it. But regarding my bff/sister, things are bright. Kinda wish I could see her and the kid more often mostly though because I have no idea of how much an aunt is involved and I'm still afraid of losing the title of aunt and I dunno. I wonder if that revelation about what I believed to be typically female bestfriendships at least partly being metaphors for lesbian relationships... Like I feel like I could and maybe even should unriddle something there but I am also afraid that all I still care about falls to ash and I have to rebirth entirely once more... Anyone have any serious thoughts on this?

@476f7474

8 ай бұрын

Can't edit. Just wanted to add that I'm not joking or making anything up or trolling or whatever. I really am THAT naive regardless of what you can't imagine there and I assume there is no need to say that it's a true story because it's like the most basic thing in my life but just to make sure.... Thanks for reading!

Women (and men) can have close female friends without being gay. It's extremely normal for straight women to have female roommates. All the "proof" that there's gay subtext is just bright colors and friendships and feeling out of place, not living up to adult expectations, while gay kids can certainly feel these things too. They're just normal human things that most humans, particularly young girls can relate to. You could make a parallel to being autistic or wanting to be an artist rather than the doctor your parents want, etc. I don't take issue with gay kids relating to something in the movies, but I take issue that any close female friendship gets reframed as "lesbian". These are movies aimed at prepubescent young girls. Sexuality is still distant and abstract for most them, rather it's their female friendships that dominate most of their time and energy. Even in highschool, I was looking forward to being roommates with best friend more than I cared about snagging a boyfriend. That's not lesbian. It wasn't a sexual relationship. Men can also desire close male friendships and relate more to their male friends, but prefer sex with a woman. Geez.

21:03 omg, I just realized Barbie’s wings are LITERALLY the pansexual flag in both colour scheme and the order of which the colours are presented.

I think the pinnacle of marxist Barbie is the Angela-Merkel-Barbie, which Martell created for their fiftieth anniversary 🤭🇩🇪🔨📐