By Nina Heyn
It used to be called counter-programming. Studios would, for example, plan to release a comedy skewed to female audiences on a Super Bowl weekend, reasoning that women who would not want to watch football games all day might want to go with their girlfriends to the movies. No longer. Oppenheimer and Barbie were scheduled to open on the same July weekend, and thanks to social media and some very deft marketing, a new social phenomenon arose—watching these two completely different movies on the same day as a double feature became a thing to do. The phenomenon has been dubbed “Barbenheimer”; thousands of viewers prebooked tickets and, in some locations, tickets have been sold out for popular times and days. Millennials and Gen Z-ers, inspired by TikTok posts and the trending social media, have decided en masse that this is the summer when they will watch both Oppenheimer and Barbie on one day.
Barbenheimer shows the extent to which modern life requires and encourages us to be all-rounders, methinks
I never thought I would say “I want to see the Barbie movie!”
So much for inspiring men and boys to grow up to be providers and protectors of women and children. It is sad that this is no longer a role that is valued today.
Actually it is valued – by millions of women who are struggling without it!
So male bashing is funny and good?
I haven’t seen this movie yet but I will. Male bashing is not good. I truly appreciate a man who understands how a woman perceives how a man perceives the role of women and how that effects self actualization for men and women.
Male bashing? It’s been a national pass time for decades, dating back to introduction of the “stupid dads” somewhere around the same time as the feminist movement was trotted out to double the number of income tax payers. I’m surprised to see Catherine & company reveling in it an not recognizing it for what it is – yet another polarization tactic being employed by the globalists.
It is not the fault of young men today that they are unable to be the sole providers of their families; it simply is how the economy works in the real world – by design. Males today, especially straight white ones, are the most maligned and least supported group in society; qualities even remotely masculine are considered “toxic”. Is it any wonder that, coupled with all the feminizing chemicals pumped into the environment, it is near impossible to find men anywhere closely resembling those of a mere century ago? Women have gotten just what they asked for: fleshy, subservient, purse-carrying little boys with zero self esteem. And the depiction of young women as all self-sacrificing, caring, and put-upon is about as authentic as the face filters they use on their social media profile pictures.
“Women have gotten just what they asked for: fleshy, subservient, purse-carrying little boys with zero self esteem.”
I definitely did NOT ask for that and I’ve never met anyone who did.
Does anyone recall being consulted about feminizing chemicals and manipulative TV scripts & op-eds? The Deep State always makes the most passive-aggressive Midianite interpretation of people’s desire for peaceful, clean, safe, equitable lives. And then shoves their passive-aggressive Midianite interpretation down our throats (except for those who were consulted, i.e. nobody).
On a time-scale of centuries, humans are at an awkward phase of trying to reach the happy middle-ground in a society that is still swinging between extremes. We’ll get there, but maybe not in our lifetimes.
Mary:
I talk about it all the time. Have you read this? I strongly recommend: https://home.solari.com/commentary-collection-promoting-women/
What I don’t do is censor Nina.
🙂
Catherine
I beg your pardon, Catherine, for assuming you always agree with your contributors, and I will undertake this “homework” assignment in the spirit intended. And please understand that my strong reaction stems from being the mother of a 23-year old son who, at age 20, formed his own Class A residential construction company, providing both much needed employment and housing in a beleaguered community, without any of the goodies bestowed upon minority and women-owned businesses. Or even the acknowledgement he deserves from his own father who can’t understand why he didn’t go to university to learn a “real profession”. He is generous and even chivalrous to the women in his life and — as a blackbelt in Tae Kwondo and an aspiring MMA fighter — would quite literally break the arm of any man who laid a finger on a woman or child. Male stereotypes such as those promoted in this film tend to have a “triggering” effect on his very proud mom. 😉
GREAT DEAL TO BE PROUD OF! I think you will enjoy Promoting Women. 🙂