Greta Gerwig responds to ‘woke’ ‘Barbie’ accusations: ‘There’s a lot of passion’
nypost.comthe New York Times.“Certainly, there’s a lot of passion. My hope for the movie is that it’s an invitation for everybody to be part of the party and let go of the things that aren’t necessarily serving us as either women or men,” said Gerwig.“I hope that in all of that passion, if they see it or engage with it, it can give them some of the relief that it gave other people,” the director said.Gerwig was responding specifically to the interviewer’s question as to whether or not the “Lady Bird” director anticipated “the degree to which rightwing pundits are bashing the movie as being ‘woke’ and burning their Barbies.”Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro flamed the feminist themes in “Barbie” by lighting Barbie dolls and a pink toy car on fire at the start of a 43-minute YouTube review.
Within the viral video, Shapiro said the message of the movie is “either you’re a third wave feminist who hates men, truly hates men or you’re brainwashed.”Shapiro claimed on Monday’s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show he had received death threats for his hot take a few days earlier.
He also pointed to tweets that asked if “something” can be done for his actions.“I take, like, a match and I light the Barbie stuff on fire — and this is apparently terrible,” Shapiro said. “The reaction to me burning a Barbie car with, like, a Barbie and Ken in it, is like the reaction of the Islamic world when someone burns a Quran in Sweden.
It’s totally crazy … I don’t even. Like wow, guys. Wow.”The commentator previously attacked the film on Twitter for alleged overuse of the word “patriarchy.” “All you need to know about #BarbieTheMovie is that it unironically uses the word ‘patriarchy’ more than 10 times.”Elon Musk also took to the rebranded social media.
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