That America Ferrera speech can be used by both sexes
It’s plenty of men that wake up feeling the same way
Not good enough
Not seen
Using Alan as the average man with no power=Women was funny but emasculating at the same time
Which brings me to Ken himself
That was some terrible writing for his character and men
And shows the dichotomy and hypocrisy that has always been prevalent in our society
Okay you want men to be men
But you don’t want a man to be too manly
Every man in this society somehow benefits from patriarchy when marginalized men of color haven’t once benefited
Especially black men
We have always been seen as the boogie man that’s here to destroy and rape white women
The burdens we carry on our shoulders every gotdamn day is immeasurable
That’s why I laugh at black women who bought into this bullshyt
Non black women I really don’t give a fukk about because most want to be honorary whites
But I would be remiss not to mention that my ex wife is Filipino and she gets it
She’s one of maybe 10 women my whole life that gets it
White women still benefit from the ills of patriarchy
They vote in alignment to keep the patriarchy alive
That Dave Chapelle joke and
Are never not in my mind
And to deduce Ken only down to being Barbies pretend boyfriend/stalker as some sort of revelation that needs to “find” himself but he was finding himself in his masculinity
Not all masculinity is fukking toxic
Men shouldn’t have to be depicted as inept to prove a point
The father couldn’t speak English or Spanish well for that matter
The executives were your standard issue idiots
But Ruth the Barbie Oracle had no culpability in how women see themselves
Nah let’s wrap a bow around that bullshyt as her being a gotdamn pioneer