Conservatives are having a fit over the Barbie movie. Why? First they came for Harry Potter and now Barbie. Talk about your losing mindset and culture war. There are times when these idiots act out, I feel my head will explode.
From the Guardian: Why does the Barbie movie have Republicans in such a tizzy?
An image from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (disclosure: I already have a ticket) has sent rightwing pundits and politicians into an uproar. Senators like Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz claim a cartoon map depicts the “nine-dash line” which China uses to assert control over the South China Sea. They argue that the movie’s supposed inclusion of the line legitimizes China’s position, which gives it more power over strategically important waters.
(For reference, the map in question is a highly stylized and deliberately inaccurate sketch. It also depicts England as bordering Asia. With a crown on top.)
The film’s studio, Warner Bros, responded with a much less convoluted explanation: “The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world’.” Republicans should know a make-believe journey when they see one – because that’s exactly the leap they make, time and time again, to invent controversies like this.
The Barbie scandal is as manufactured as the dolls themselves. It’s the latest and most absurd example of a trend as old as time: conservatives drumming up unnecessary culture wars because they are incapable of winning over voters with their deeply unpopular policies.
I so remember the Harry Potter uproar. My sister was hysterical at that time. I asked her what the difference was in watching or reading Harry Potter and her sitting for hours watching Bewitched. Well that shut down the argument. Talk about indoctrination?
How in the world could Barbie infiltrate politically. Is Ken a secret agent for China? I have not seen the Barbie movie. I don’t have to see the Barbie movie to know these so called conservatives are just nuts and Barbie is just fine. These people attack Disney. They go off on rampages about really stupid things. Well Barbie will skyrocket just like Harry Potter did.
I am thinking Lady and the Tramp would have been banned on Title alone and Pinnochio would have been picketed against for their idea of a man making a doll that comes to life. To them it would be from the Devil.
Back in Barbie Land, Republicans’ insistence on fabricating culture war issues isn’t limited to disputes over territorial seas. Ginger Luckey Gaetz, the 26-year-old wife of Representative Matt Gaetz, knocked the movie because it “neglects to address any notion of faith or family”. She also lamented the “disappointingly low T from Ken,” Barbie’s famously genital-free companion.
You can’t make sense out of nonsense. Can you imagine the misery and ignorance that is happening to the children of these republican parents? Can you imagine trying to tell a 9 year old who wants to see the Barbie Movie, No child, it is all a plot from the deep state to turn you into a communist. What the Hell? I am willing they would not hesitate to say that after NO or simply say, “Because I said so”.
Even the Twilight Zone was not this unbelievable as what we are witnessing today from Republicans.