There are four main categories of ‘favourite character’:

1. I am in love with them and maybe want to suck their dick
2. They are my parent and a hug from them would fix all my problems istg
3. They are my child and I must protect them at all costs
4. I hate them, they're my best friend

i dont think you understand how much i need this

Barbie (2023) was made for people that were deeply moved by the When She Loved Me sequence in Toy Story 2

Weird barbie was so funny because we literally all know of those weird Barbies who were played with very, very hard, and are constantly doing the splits and have messed up hair and are covered in marker.

Whether you loved her or hated her, that was exactly her purpose.

She was a barbie that was loved and hated and most importantly, held.

https://www.tumblr.com/thelilnan/722481380565680128

s[he’s] bro[ken]

the thing that gets me about the barbie movie being framed as an "anti-men" movie is that it's fundamentally untrue to the message it's sending out. the movie is an empowering feminist piece as much as it is a cautionary tale about men letting their insecurities and doubts about their place in the world lead them to falling into the alt-right/incel/mra pipeline. it's looking out for men just as much as it's looking out for women, and the only reason you might find this as an "anti-men" message is because you somehow deeply believe that this is the wrong message to send

I also sobbed when I saw barbie appreciating an old woman, sitting beside her on the bench, because that's what a woman is and that's what being human is, and that's what life is and she saw imperfection and age and realized it was beautiful.

She was so scared of being imperfect and having cellulite and aging and dying, and then she saw how beautiful all of those things could be, and she cried, and I cried.

And I understood. And I felt understood.