The Barbie film probably deserves a book-length treatment. Given the number of think pieces, memes, and 43 minute Ben Shapiro monologues it has so far generated, I suspect it will receive one before long. But I have just one thought to add here, having spent a week ruminating on the Barbie vision of sexual politics. It’s about Ken.
There was an essay titled Why Men Love War published in Esquire magazine in 1984. The writer was William Broyles Jr., a screenwriter and veteran of the Vietnam War. I urge you to read this classic essay if you haven’t already done so, particularly if you are a woman, because it offers an insight into the young male mind that will seem strange to many female readers – even alienating. That was certainly my experience of it.
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