It’s not okay for men to criticise the Barbie movie, apparently.

In modern Australia, we’re supposed to permit two hours of sexist drivel portraying us as either moronic party boys, incompetent corporate executives, or sleazy leering creeps, to just go through to the keeper.

Sorry, but no…

Ben Shapiro hate-watches “divisive”, “sexist” Barbie movie, screamed one headline in the major mainstream Australian media dailies. Note the quotation marks.

‘The film of the year is being slammed as “divisive” and “sexist towards men”, with Ben Shapiro leading the charge,’ read the sub-title.

Film of the year? Really?

Conservative American commentator Ben Shapiro was being hauled over the coals for rightly describing the cinematic train wreck as:

‘Not just a piece of sh**. This movie is a flaming piece of dog sh**, piled atop an entire dumpster on fire, piled on top of a landfill, filled with dog sh***. It is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. On every possible level, it is an horrific movie.’

Upon hearing that, I just had to part with $16 and go see it. And Barbie was everything you would expect from modern Woke corporate America, true to the perverse backwards world in which we live, where corporations pretend to be the moral guardians of all that is right and good.

But note how the young female Aussie journalist positioned her meta-critique of Shapiro’s critique. This intelligent and highly articulate young conservative man didn’t just watch the movie and hate it. He has hate in his heart. He viewed the film through a lens of hate. He is ‘hate-filled’ to his very core and therefore must be ignored!

The movie was a confused mess both on its surface preachy level and on any subtle level of subtext it was failing to deliver. Was it trying to be a clever feminist commentary about Barbie dolls and the patriarchy? If so, it failed for its shallow preachiness. Was it trying to be funny? If so, it completely failed. It wasn’t intentionally funny at all and many of the jokes were rude and inappropriate for kids. Was it trying to send a message to girls to be themselves? That it’s okay to just be a mum, or just be a worker, and that you don’t have to be a corporate superstar or a super-mum, or both? Then it was a critique of modern feminist nonsense and I’d applaud that. But it remains a very confused and muddled one.

Barbie heads off to the real world to find out why she’s having human feelings, although this movie is so literal that they tell you why before she goes (it’s aimed at modern third-wave Woke feminists who need their hands held through the plot, after all). They tell you that Barbie is sad because the little girl playing with her in the real world is sad and she has to go find her. Brilliant.

And of course, as soon as Barbie gets to the real world, it’s a cliché undergraduate Gender Studies 101 hell: sexism everywhere!

As Shapiro bitingly notes,

‘Immediately on arriving in the real world Barbie is hit with an overwhelming tsunami of sexism…right away she walks in and men just leer at her and say things like “give us a smile blondie” which is something no one under the age of 70 has said to any woman in the recent past.

‘We get Barbie explaining that all of the men who are leering at her and gazing at her have an undertone of violence, she’s physically threatened because this is the real world. The real world is not like Barbie land, in the real world, all women are deep and abiding victims of the system as we learn by the use of the word “patriarchy” no less than ten times in this film.’

Modern third-wave feminism is not the ‘good’ feminism of women being empowered to have choice in their lives: the suffragette movement seeking the vote and the ability of women to enter the workforce outside the home – if they so choose – yet still to be respected if they opt for the demanding role of being a full-time mother – if they so choose. No, modern third-wave feminism is sexist and truly ‘hate-filled’. It is about revenge and hate and punishing men for being … men. It’s about demonising normal male-ness as ‘toxic’ and normal male heterosexual expression as ‘harassment’ while making all other kinds of sexual expression by ‘all the other’ genders, positive.

In a sense, it’s Marxism’s perversion of the women’s rights movement. Like all Marxist theories, it reduces reality to an incredibly simplistic narrative. You’re unhappy because somebody ate all the pies and you didn’t get any. That’s Marxism in a nutshell. View everything through the lens of an oppressor and an oppressed. Play on people’s misery, make them feel like a righteous victim, rather than unhappy for any of their own wrongdoing or thinking. Play on the enormous power of envy – get them angry. Have a revolution against the supposed oppressor and everything will magically turn wonderful! Because that’s the natural state of the world. No, sorry. We tried it in the 20th Century. Didn’t work. Total disaster in fact.

It’s the kind of worldview you can only sustain if you’re a bit dim or historically illiterate. Which is why anyone with half a brain works this out in their first year at university, spends the next three years just pretending to go along with it all so as not to upset the sociology professor who’s clearly in need of help, and never picks up a book on Marxism again for the rest of their lives.

It’s also why a lot of smart people today run away from universities – not towards them.

They call it ‘critical theory’ – the critical lens on the world – but it’s a lens designed by a two-year-old child. Because, I’m afraid to tell you kids, somebody didn’t eat all the pies. You’re not unhappy because of ‘big fat rich white men’ and the lie of a patriarchy. Life is complicated and hard by nature and nature isn’t a utopia. Lots of people – many of them white men – had to work really hard for centuries to build the wonderful society and world that we all enjoy today.

Wake up kids or you’re gonna lose it all.

So now, let me explain why – on another level – I love the Barbie movie.

I love the Barbie movie because it demonstrates so very clearly that post-modern, neo-Marxist, Woke. third-wave, modern feminism (or whatever you want to call it) makes absolutely no sense and is nonsense to its core.

The movie doesn’t intend to make this point. It does it by accident. And that’s what is so delicious about all this.

Modern gender theory feminism is so dumb it can only work if you view all men as dumb, one-dimensional boof-heads. And, in order to make it work, you have to make the assumptions that this movie makes about men. Assumptions that are so infantile and idiotic and frankly insulting, that they could only be made if the men in the movie were actually one-dimensional plastic dolls.

In other words, if you tried to make a movie pushing the garbage worldview about men that this movie is pushing it would be impossible because no actual human man is as shallow and one-dimensional as would be required to make the case for the modern feminist worldview.

So modern feminist theory can only hold up in a world where the men – quite literally – are made of plastic and are not real.

Thank you.

Thank you Warner Brothers, thank you Barbie film, thank you idiot Woke Hollywood producers and directors. Thank you. You have shown us all what a lie modern feminism and the concept of the patriarchy really are.

But isn’t ‘the patriarchy’ real? One of the UK’s most committed modern feminist journalists and commentators decided to take on Jordan Peterson some years ago for arguing that the patriarchy is a neo-Marxist lie. The patriarchy is a theory that is supported by mountains of social science work across all of academia across decades. So it must be true, right? Surely our university social science departments haven’t descended into a pathetic realm of non-self-critical groupthink? It’s not like it could be torn apart in under 60 seconds by a smart academic with a different worldview, could it?

The feminist proposed to Peterson that her definition of a patriarchy was ‘a system of male dominance in society … the vast majority of wealth is owned by men, the vast majority of capital is owned by men…’

Peterson replied, ‘A very tiny proportion of men. And a huge proportion of people who are seriously disaffected are men, most people in prison are men, most people who are on the street are men, most victims of violent crime are men, most people who commit suicide are men, most people who die in wars are men, people who do worse in schools are men. Where’s the dominance here, precisely?’

Ethicist, philosopher, and well-known critic of modern feminism, Christina Hoff Sommers, says a lot of the assumptions that people have about gender disparities are the result of flawed statistics repeated over and over and amplified by a compliant media class.

‘Most of the standard feminist injustice statistics are exaggerated or just plain wrong,’ she noted in a 2016 episode of her Factual Feminist podcast. ‘It’s not true that women are being cheated out of 23 per cent of their salaries or that one in five will be victims of sexual assault. And it’s also the case that in many critical domains, women are faring fare better than me.’

Sommers adds: ‘Take education. There it is women who are the privileged sex at every level. And across ethnic and class lines women get better grades, they win most of the prizes and are far more likely to go to college.’

‘In the workplace … the lethal professions are largely a male preserve. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty dangerous work of building words, pouring concrete, laying bricks, tarring rooves, hanging electrical wires… is it any surprise that every year about 5,000 Americans die in workplace accidents? 92 per cent of them, men. We hear all about the Fortune 500 CEOs, but what about the unfortunate majority?’

While these statistics are American, it’s highly likely things are pretty much the same throughout the developed Western world.

We’ve been lied to for decades, or at best intentionally misled, by deceptive academics with an axe to grind and an agenda to push, and we should be furious about it.

University social science departments should have their funding pulled until they regain public faith. They should certainly no longer be allowed to infect our journalism, media, and teaching courses with their unsound and unproven theses of inequity. Maybe then, in a generation or two, people will watch the Barbie movie from the ‘olden days’ and laugh at how silly grandma and grandpa were back at the ‘turn of the last century’ with all the nonsense they believed.