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‘Barbie’ movie is a mockery of equality, feminists would fume if male and female roles were reversed: Piers Morgan

July 25, 2023 | | Print Article

Another excoriating take on “Barbie” suggested violent consequences if the “misandrist message” were reversed, leading some dissidents to embrace the dark idea.

The new film starring Margot Robbie as the famed Mattel doll and eponymous Barbie may have been a smash at the box office, but it hasn’t won over many hearts and minds in the culture war. In fact, writing for the New York Post, commentator Piers Morgan argued if he’d told a story that demeaned women as much as this film bashed men, he’d “be executed.”

“I thought the whole point of feminism is that women wanted equality with men, not a complete reversal of the perceived unequal social power structure,” the Sky News host of “Talk TV,” wrote Monday.

Delving into the repeated use of the term “patriarchy” throughout “Barbie,” Morgan decried the concept as “hijacked and corrupted by feminazis to suggest that every aspect of life and society is dominated by powerful, privileged males over subjugated, underprivileged females.”

Such was the portrayal of the male-female dichotomy in the movie that left Barbie gobsmacked when she visited the “real world” before later returning to her home to wrest control back from the Kens who had embraced the “patriarchy,” briefly shifting the power dynamic.

“The bottom line is this: If I made a movie mocking women as useless dunderheads, constantly attacking ‘the matriarchy,’ and depicting all things feminist as toxic bullsh*t, I wouldn’t just be canceled, I’d be executed,” the commentator contended.

That suggestion was welcomed by trolls on social media who encouraged Morgan to take matters into his own hand if the execution couldn’t be arranged sans a bizarro version of the Greta Gerwig picture.

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“The movie’s clear message is that the only solution to this dreadful patriarchal state of affairs is for women to rule the world, and preferably to do so on their own without horrible men to ruin both the planet and them,” he had written in his summary and critique of the plot.

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“It’s a ridiculously misandrist message that is being rammed down the throats of literally tens of millions of people as ‘Barbie’ smashes box office records around the world with a $300 million opening weekend — even eclipsing ‘Oppenheimer,’ Christopher Nolan’s much-vaunted blockbuster about the man who invented the atomic bomb,” Morgan continued. “And forgive me if I don’t join in the widespread exclamations of unbridled joy at its unexpected success.”

He also made note of the previously reported takedown of “Barbie” from Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro who had boiled down his review to slam the movie as “not just a piece of sh*t. This movie is a flaming piece of dogsh*t piled atop an entire dumpster on fire, piled atop a landfill filled with dogsh*t.”

In support of his point about the inane message tried in “Barbie,” Morgan went on to share a tweet attributed to singer Lily Allen that read, “I saw Barbie and Oppenheimer this weekend and my takeaway is that if Oppenheimer was a woman, Hiroshima might not have happened.”

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“That’s precisely the kind of ludicrously crass and stupid conclusion the film wants you to make,” he wrote. “And that’s why I think its core message stinks.”

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