Ryan Gosling performs 'I'm just Ken' at the 2024 Oscars

I love this stupid movie!

A whole lot of people are talking about this so I won't linger on commentary on this but the Academy Award nominations dropped and Barbie (2023) got nominated in the following categories:

I am seeing a lot of commentary on Gerwig getting snubbed for a Directing award, and that Margot Robbie did not get a nomination for Leading Actress, usually paired with "why did Ryan Gosling...", and that is all valid, but can we also take a moment to uplift America Ferrera!

Although the points about Gerwig and Robbie are completely correct I am really happy for Ferrera!!

I do get where people are coming from with being frustrated that Ryan Gosling is nominated but Margot Robbie isn’t, what with the film being literally called Barbie, not Ken.

BUT like... America Ferrera is right there? Being nominated for the equivalent award to Ryan Gosling? She delivers the monologue that encapsulates the message of the whole film. That’s more than worthy of recognition to me. And I feel like that’s being less focused on than the fact that Margot wasn’t nominated.

Now Greta being snubbed for best director on the other hand…

MARGOT ROBBIE and AMERICA FERRERA 81st Golden Globe Awards (January 7, 2024)

jo koy was fucking awful at the golden globes.

Barbie was a movie that celebrated girlhood and womanhood while also managing to acknowledge the difficulties of being a woman. the rant by America Ferrera’s character says it best - to be a woman is to be everything all at once and never be good enough. and jo koy saw this movie and decided “nah fuck this shit” and declared it a movie based on a “plastic doll with big boobs!” after emphasising the importance of Oppenheimer? that completely undermines the statement that Barbie put out there, the relatability it found with its female audience and the hard work of everyone involved. it ignores all of that, and it is disgusting to see this blatant misogyny, especially towards a movie that tackles that very topic.

the Taylor Swift joke was unnecessary. you cannot deny that Taylor Swift is an incredibly influential woman, and it is so annoying seeing her still being dragged down for a low joke. all she did was attend the awards ceremony and her love life was dragged up - not to coo or celebrate - but to laugh at. to make fun of her. it’s been a repeating theme of her career - being asked about love when in fact she is, on her own, more influential than any of the men she’s dated. but it’s never about her, it’s always about them, because men can’t comprehend that women can and will exist without them. Taylor Swift deserves better, she had the right to be at this awards ceremony without being dragged into this misogynistic shit.

so fuck you, jo koy. you never deserved such a high-profile platform and should never have one again.

i legitimately opened a blog where they said "oh the barbie joke was so much worse taylor keeps drawing the attention" like both of those things were bad. you could've just said the barbie joke was a low blow but invalidating taylor's one isn't gonna bring any reform. one woman should not be muffled for the uplift of the other. the same blog labelled taylor as a racist ecoterrorist, which is FAR from true. taylor deserves nothing of this.

MARGOT ROBBIE and AMERICA FERRERA 81st Golden Globe Awards (January 7, 2024)

OK OK I have to talk about Barbie!

I went and saw the Barbie movie on Friday. I don't typically go to movies when they are in theaters because my adhd doesn't handle sitting quietly still for an extended period of time. But marketing for this movie was on point and I had to go see it.

In short, with no spoilers, I loved it. There were a few bits of the story that could have better, but overall, it was a wonderful movie. So I want to discuss it but I'm hiding the rest under the cut because there are spoilers.

Also, I have to say that the criticism that the movie is inappropriate for children though it was marketed to young children is hilarious. It was not marketed to children; it was marketed to the millennial women who grew up with Barbie at its most controversial. Not once did I see a marketing campaign and think, "this is perfect for children!"

I digress...

Margot Robbie, America Ferrera and Ariana Greenblatt on the set of BARBIE (2023), dir. Greta Gerwig

Can we talk about the speech? You give a monologue that so many women are gonna relate to, watching it. AMERICA FERRERA MTV UK

now try tell me barbie ain’t a high femme lesbian

She has an entire boyfriend

Nichole Sakura

Happy Birthday America Ferrera!

Look how cute the Night Lights are. ❤️🐉