I don't think a lot of people who saw Barbie realize that most people aren't dwelling about feminist theory and expressing frustration openly about the unfairness of the patriarchy, much less regularly dissecting it and discussing it. That's something you see in high concentrations if you're in the right circles on social media. Also, Barbie was shown worldwide, a lot of those discussions and the mere presence of these discussions are western-centric
Which is why it frustrates me when people say Gloria's speech about the hardships of being a woman is "so tooootally overdone and everyone knows it why bother saying it now?"
Because women know, but there's millions who never get to express it. It is cathartic seeing someone be angry on your behalf when you aren't able to.
A lot of women and unfortunately a majority of women do NOT get to express even this out loud. I cant fucking say any of this out loud, any time I tried people told me to get over it. I've screamed these sentiments, I've calmly expressed these sentiments at an even tone. Either ways I got cut off.
No one takes me, or the many women across the world who don't-- can't express these things seriously if they try-- seriously. Or are even willing to hear us out. So it's fucking cathartic for a bunch of women who never could find the words to verbalise things.
Gloria's frustration is important and valuable and necessary.
I'm glad so many of you know these things and have said these things but women across the world played with barbie. The world. And the world is bigger than the west.
I saw the Barbie movie earlier today, and I obviously have a lot of thoughts, but as a woman on her period right now, in excruciating pain, I have one major thing:
How would Barbie react to her first period?
I can just imagine her, after running to Gloria’s house, screaming and crying like-
“GLORIA! Help! I-I’m bleeding!”
And Gloria just has to sit her down and give her the same talk they gave us when we were twelve at school, and by the end, Barbie’s just lying on the floor, crying while Gloria hands her tissues.
“This WASN’T part of the DEAL! WHY WOULDN’T SHE TELL ME I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO DO THIS EVERY MONTH FOR THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS?”
I just want to say that with the Oscars coming tomorrow people may be looking at it as the end of the #Barbie Era". But I'm not ready to leave here yet.
And to those still writing for Barbie and Gloria, please know how appreciated you are and that people still can't wait for your stories!!
Another Glorbie Twitter thread inspired by a Twitter image going around. This time Barbie wonders about kissing women, Gloria doesn't want her to worry about it (really), and Weird Barbie instigates a furious thread of replies while waiting for Chappell yesterday (you DON'T wanna know how hard it was to get Ruth's okay to crossover to the real world for lesbian pop).
I’m like 99% sure they never say Gloria’s name in the movie (not that I can remember but I was searching and found nothing) and in the captions her name is just “Sasha’s mom” and the disrespect-
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Barbie (Movie 2023)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margot Robbie's Barbie/Gloria (Barbie 2023), Margot Robbie's Barbie & Sasha (Barbie 2023)
Characters: Margot Robbie's Barbie (Barbie 2023), Gloria (Barbie 2023), Sasha (Barbie 2023), El Esposo de Gloria (Barbie 2023) (mentioned)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, Established Relationship, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Birthday Fluff, Family Fluff, Post-Divorce, Divorced Gloria (Barbie 2023), No Beta We Die Like Ken’s Patriarchy, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Barbie is actually Barbara, Motherhood, They're a Family, nothing i do is beta read i just saw the tag and i loved it
Summary:
It's Barbie's birthday and Sasha already knows the perfect gift for her mom's new girlfriend who is also the literal humanized version of her favorite childhood doll.
Life can be very weird sometimes.
I wrote a BarbieGloria fic... Or a Glorbie fic... Or a Barbria fic. We gotta figure out a set ship name, y’all. I can’t keep tag hopping. Anyway, this is one of the goofiest things I’ve ever written so it totally fits with Barbie. I really wrote a one-shot based off of a meme I saw a couple times on the tags and it may be the greatest thing I’ve ever done. Or the worst! All art is subjective! Please enjoy and remember that you are Kenough.