Flip the Script: The end of the patriarchy changes us all

Andrea Hylen
3 min readApr 27, 2024
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/singing-im-just-ken-in-barbie-was-ryan-goslings-idea

Day One hundred-four:

The end of the patriarchy changes us all.

It’s not easy being Ken.

In my view, the Barbie film also depicted how difficult it is to be a Ken. Some of the key questions for men I got from the movie are:

What does being a man mean, once the traditional patriarchal

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Andrea Hylen

Founder of Heal My Voice and The Incubator. Life Scientist. Live house-free. Widow. Mom of Adult Daughters. Grief. Writing Sexuality. Evolutionary Woman