Barbie is a Deconstructionist Text

how did they let Greta Gerwig make this movie PATREON: Instagram: Spotify: Apple Music: Big thanks to my friend Lore Randolph for helping with the costumes for this video! SOURCES & WORKS CITED Video Essays Referenced Alexander Avila — TikTok Gave Me Autism: The Politics of Self Diagnosis Sophie From Mars (ft. Sarah Zedig) — The Matrix Sequels Are Good, Actually The Man Enough Podcast — ALOK: The Urgent Need for Compassion Broey Deschanel — Feeling Cynical About Barbie verilybitchie — The Plastic Feminism of Barbie Khadija Mbowe — The Feminine urge to Internalize the Male Gaze, unpacking desirability 🥴 Broey Deschanel — What Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us About “the Gaze“ Articles Further reading on the Mormon/ex-Mormon idea of “the shelf” After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox by By Alex Barasch Greta Gerwig on the Blockbuster ‘Barbie’ Opening (and How She Got Away With It) by Kyle Buchanan UCLA School of Law, Williams Institute: “LGBQ people six times more likely than general public to be stopped by police” Other Media Used Avalanche Adventure | National Geographic The Making of Barbie: Barbie BTS from iHollywoodTV: Lady Bird BTS: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time soundtrack by Koji Kondo Chapter Markers 00:00 Introduction 02:38 Existential Dread 07:08 Weird Barbie 13:09 Formative Trauma at Venice Beach 15:08 Subjectivity and the Self 20:35 Ken Discovers Patriarchy 25:31 The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die 31:29 Sasha Destroys Barbie 35:21 Institutional Recoil 40:06 Intermission: Greta Gerwig 46:31 Post-Escape Solidarity 49:42 Kendom, and the Sudden Realization of Systems 55:17 Cognitive Dissonance 57:51 Deprogramming Barbie 59:18 I’m Just Ken 01:04:08 Ken’s Arc 01:10:16 Kens as Second Class Citizens and The Inverted Gaze 01:15:08 What Was I Made For 01:20:32 Conclusion 01:22:41 To those currently deconstructing 01:27:16 Outro