Just for the record, I don't like Ben Shapiro Pearl Davis or Andrew Tate. This movie is not for men. Some men may like it, others probably endured it. This movie spent most of it's time poking fun at and objectifying men. I mean even when the Kens took over Barbie Land, they were still memes (horses and beer?).

Barbie treats Ken with disregard through the whole movie and then "saves" him at the end by telling him he's "Kenough"? That's pretty patronizing.

I don't like Pearl. She is constantly slut shaming women and saying really misogynistic stuff. I hate it when she talks about the sexual market value of women under 30. It's very hateful.

However, she's not entirely wrong about men's issues. Patriarchy theory is based on the oppressor-oppressed gender dichotomy. The premise is that men have it easy ("Men already have all the rights") and women have it hard. Some (dare I say many or most?) feminists often use Patriarchy theory to dismiss men's issues or to justify double standards. That's not equality either. Why can't male suicide, death or injury on the job, male sentencing gaps, stigma of male victims of domestic violence be problems that society should do something about? Why does it have to be a zero-sum game?

I don't think in Barbie's version of equality we all thrive. The Barbies agreed to give disgruntled Kens some say in politics, government and so on: "Kinda like women in the real world." But they didn't agree to treat them as equals. To me, the whole thing felt like retaliation.