The “Barbie” movie is receiving a lot of praise from the mainstream media, but many critics weren’t too thrilled with the movie’s overtly feminist message. Candace Owens, presenter of The Daily Wire, offered her thoughts on seeing the fantasy comedy after its July 21 premiere.
In spite of aggressive marketing campaigns intended to persuade her differently, Owens stated on Friday that she had no interest in viewing the film.
We live in a world that is becoming more and more anti-man, which is obviously something you already know if you’re listening to this podcast. While we behave as if the patriarchy is to blame for the misery of women, she claimed that “toxic feminism has risen to the top and is actually oppressing men with movements that make absolutely no sense.”
Owens continued by citing a few examples of famous people who exemplify this poisonous femininity, such as singer Bebe Rexha and actor Jonah Hill’s ex-girlfriend, who publicly accused him of “emotional abuse” and exposed private text conversations.
The podcast presenter claimed that women are usually “vicious toward men” and that the general public typically celebrates this conduct as a feminist achievement. According to Owens, a review Sarah Vine wrote for the Daily Mail that outlined some of the issues with “Barbie” had an impact on her decision to skip the movie.
I was certain that I could accept her remarks at their value, stated Owens. The commenter continues by quoting from the review, which reads, “The major thing I have against Barbie is that it isn’t actually a movie about Barbie at all. With a few entertaining dance routines and a few (admittedly, quite solid) jokes, it’s an hour and 54 minutes of prolonged misandry.
“It’s a deeply anti-man movie, an extension of all that TikTok feminism that paints any form of masculinity—other than the most anodyne—as toxic and predatory and frames women’s liberation not as a movement based on achieving equality between the sexes but as a cultural revenge vehicle designed to write men out of the story altogether,” Vine continues.
“Every single male character is either a moron, a bigot, or a miserable, downright pitiful loser. It would be widely criticized—and rightfully so—if the positions were reversed and a male filmmaker produced a movie about how all women were crazy, neurotic, gold-digging witches.
This summary, according to Owens, was enough to make her decide not to watch the movie at all.
“If that’s what she’s trying to say, then when males show any signs of masculinity, women have to put them back in their cages because they’re either racist, stupid, or sad. I just don’t care,” she remarked.