Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for BarbieIf there’s anything to take away from the massively successful Barbie movie, it’s that the patriarchy sucks, Greta Gerwig is amazing, and Kenergy is a powerful, radiating force capable of both wonderful hilarity and horribly misguided chivalry.
While there’s very little known about Kenergy, we learned from Barbie that it does have a few foundational elements.
A Ken’s world revolves around the woman that he loves, he will sing at you for hours if you let him, and he generally has no clue what’s going on.
While Ryan Gosling’s performance as Ken was a totally unexpected, bleach-blonde tour de force, we can actually point to a much earlier depiction of Kenergy back in 2007, with James Marsden’s performance as Prince Edward in Enchanted.
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