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The Barbie movie, as interpreted by the author, is an artistic attempt to explore what it means to be a woman. However, critics on the right—Ben Shapiro—see it as incoherent and politically hostile, blaming it for portraying men and women as adversaries, promoting a society where they ignore each other.
Conversely, Michael Knowles interprets the film as genuinely conservative, noting that it even contains subtle praise for motherhood and femininity, despite its surface-level criticisms of feminism. The author sides with Knowles, asserting the film’s core message embodies feminine virtue rooted in creation and surrender, not dominance.