Margot Robbie’s ‘Barbie’ Oscars snub is no loss for feminism
NY Post
Sometimes the universe has a sense of humor.
Could there be a more amusing coda to the “Barbie” phenomenon than the Ken doll, played by Ryan Gosling, getting a Best Supporting Actor nomination, while Barbie herself, played by Margot Robbie, got snubbed?
The director Greta Gerwig, too, missed out on the big prize, failing to get a best director nomination.
The patriarchy strikes again.
“Barbie,” of course, is the annoying, occasionally entertaining, $1.4 billion feminist parable that was made into an unstoppable cultural juggernaut last year. In certain circles, if you didn’t like it, you had to make yourself like it.
According to the movie’s devotees, Ken getting all the glory is something straight out of the film’s male-dominated dystopia that the Barbie dolls must muster the courage to resist.
