This post contains spoilers for “Barbie.”In “Barbie,” Gloria’s heartfelt monologue about the pressure for women to be perfect resonates so strongly with the Barbies that it snaps them out of the subservient spell they’re under in the patriarchal Kendom.
Alongside her daughter Sasha, Gloria leads a covert mission with some of the Barbies to take back Barbieland.
They do this by giving Ken exactly what he wants: by stroking his ego.
While one of the enlightened Barbies distracts Ken with her adoring gaze and innocent questions, the others capture the brainwashed Barbies — former writers and doctors turned into cheerleaders and maids — to re-educate them.
Then, they plan to storm the pink Capitol Building and rewrite the Barbie constitution.Tired of being “just Ken,” the Kens use mansplaining as a way to overpower Barbie.
In addition to chugging beers and admiring horses, these new hypermasculine Kens love to condescendingly lecture…
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