A figment of a million little girl’s imaginations. Here we see why Ken gets treated like some kind of accessory in Barbie Land, because he is, quite literally, an accessory in all those play-times, in all those minds of all those little girls. Maleness won’t become interesting to them for a for a few years yet, so who has any use for boy dolls? Ken is a cardboard cutout for the photo-shoot, to be tossed in the back of the closet when he’s no longer useful. Ken does not start the movie representing men, he starts out as an object of indifference by generations of girls dreaming about bigger things. Girl things. Woman things. Barbie things.
Tag: gender
A wonderful little movie. A modern remake of Cyrano de Bergerac, where tragedy and loss are transformed into possibility.
off the coast of Japan
she put her hand upon my back
unfettered, she sd
unfettered.