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Flip the Script on Stereotypes
Day One hundred one
Flip the Script on Stereotypes
Part One: It’s not all about me (from a man):
There were some men who were not happy because they felt that the Barbie movie cast a bad light upon them. I personally did not feel this way, but everyone has a right to feel what they feel. But here’s the thing, in my view, the movie was about Barbie and by extension, the struggles and hardships around what it really means to be a woman outside the confusing, contradictory and unrealistic expectations of society, particularly male culture. To investigate this idea further one could read, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. But I learned it’s not all about me… as a man. It’s okay for there to be a Barbie movie, it’s okay for women to give voice to their journey and struggle to fully be themselves. Though I didn’t feel the film was man-hating, it wasn’t the job of the Barbie movie to coddle men and not offend them. If men are this upset by it, go make a Ken movie to tell the story of the difficulties of being a man. ~Jim Palmer
I’m completing our 100 days of Flip the Script by shining a light on how Greta Gerwig with Barbie, and Taylor Swift and Beyonce with music and storytelling, have been flipping the script on stereotypes around women and creating an opening to have bigger conversations about old patriarchal…
