5 thoughts on “It’s a Barbie World

  1. One of my dear friends went to the movie and took his 7-year-old daughter. After they all saw it, I asked the kiddo “What was your favorite part?” and she said “I will tell you about my least favorite part. I hated when they were breaking the dolls.”

    The movie was PG-13, I guess. They even included an F-Bomb. Why would you let your 7-year-old watch a PG-13 movie?!?

    It’s a Barbie movie that deliberately excludes the Barbie demographic.

    Which probably sums up my problem with The World Today.Report

    1. They even included an F-Bomb.

      No, they didn’t? They rather determinedly didn’t, as they had one that was comically censored by the Mattel logo.Report

      1. I got my info second-hand. I’m pleased that they didn’t include one but merely insinuated one.

        I asked the kiddo if she thought the movie was funny and she said it wasn’t. I asked if mommy and daddy laughed a lot and she said they did.

        Like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, there’s stuff in there for the kiddos and jokes for mom and dad and the latter sail over the heads of the little ones.Report

  2. “That’s a cringeworthy moment when I think about the little girls (or boys) in the audience who may not yet be familiar with that term and might have some questions for mom and dad as they leave the theater.”

    First, it’s rated PG-13. 13-year-olds should know the term ‘vagina.’ And even if you brought a younger kid, that is still an appropriate term for them. Or was it the notion of someone not having a vagina that felt cringeworthy if questioned? I can tell you… kids who do play with dolls are pretty aware that some have genitalia and some do not, which would provide all the necessary framing to answer that question in the context of the movie.Report

  3. Like Kazzy, I really couldn’t fathom your issue with the word vagina.

    When your wife, or you, talked to your little daughter about her body parts, her arms, her legs, her ears, what did you call her vagina? Did you and your wife never mentioned it to it?

    I am a cis male, and my junk was mentioned, by either my dad or my mum every time I took a bath as a child – “Did you wash your ***?. Really? Did you remember to push it back?” .

    I do not really recall when was I told the basic anatomic differences of boys and girls, but it was early in my elementary school years. Vagina is a body part, like the nose. It is only problematic if we decide to make it weird.Report

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