I see no downside whatsoever.

1. Acknowledging that the people who hurt you are living in your head and you’re ready to move on. A lot of folks are unable to even get this far.

2. Therapy.

3. Truly internalize the realization that the act of imagining scenarios where you get to hurt the people who hurt you is like drinking poison with the expectation that someone other than yourself will be made ill.

4. living a good life.

This journey is difficult and requires a lot of self-reflection and maturity. Best of luck to you.

Love making complicated, beautiful cocktails for guests. Zero interest in being a bartender at a high-end cocktail bar until / unless I retire.

You poor Canadians don’t get to enjoy the joy of financially ruinous hospital bills or depending on GoFundMe to afford medicine.

I pity you.

As of this reply, of the 20 links on the frontpage of [email protected] … 9 are “Heathcliff Without Heathcliff”. Sometimes the comic has as many as 15 on the front-page.

The account spams the instance - I just don’t know if it’s an in-joke, the poster just has nowhere else to post an over-used joke, or the mods don’t care about spamming.

Done. Thank you, @CommunityLinkFixerBot. :-)

Hello @Saneless I hope this reply finds you well.

Should make something clear: @DrMango asked “Can someone please tell me what makes the Barbie Movie woke”. I’m just doing my best to give a reasonably-neutral answer. I don’t necessarily agree with the attitude. (Although, I think I can appreciate it better than most who aren’t RWers.)

Also: I should have added bullet point #5:

**5. All the above are applied to established IP with existing cultural resonance. ** I regret I didn’t include it in the above list since it’s key to understanding the objections to ‘wokeness’ … but in my defense, this is a Lemmy thread - how much time should anyone put into anything on a minor Lemmy thread? ;-)

With that out of the way:

1 what’s gratuitous? More than 12% of the cast? A ratio that normally makes you clutch your pearls at the store?

It’s not a percentage … it’s when a character is cast based on virtue-signaling rather than what makes sense for the story or original IP. For example: A story set in Kamakura period, Japan shouldn’t have Native Americans in the back-ground drinking steins of beer. A character who is described in a book as a middle-aged British Victorian butler shouldn’t be a 20-something, lesbian, black woman.

2 happens in every male action movie ever made but it’s men being awesome.

Yes, there are examples of male characters being awesome out-of-the-gate. But I would submit that the ones that resonate are the ones that had to grow. These resonating characters & stories are what Hollywood studios are re-working in the laziest way possible. (One quick example: Skywalker had to grow into his role, Rey automatically understands everything.) It just seems that every new movie based on an established IP has to make the Strong Female Character good at anything.

4 happens for movies with men, constantly.

We’re talking about what makes something woke. Weak character and story arcs are a staple of wokeness, but not the only one.

You list Ripley but how is that different? If alien was made in 2019 you’d be saying the same shit

I disagree. Ripley, for the movies time, was an original character. Moreover: She made mistakes, grew as a person, and had a decent arc.

To wrap this up: ‘Woke’ is a synonym for lazy writing when applied to established IP - especially when pointing out the laziness opens one to accusations of misogyny.

Cheers!

Haven’t seen the movie, but I’m planning to. I’m sure it’s fine. That said, as neutrally as I can I’ll try to define characteristics of a ‘woke’ movie.

If said in bad-faith, ‘woke’ means: “Something I don’t like because … women. Amirite.” (aka: A dog-whistle)

If said in good-faith ‘woke’ describes a way to write female characters in the laziest way possible. Some of the good-faith criticisms of wokeness:

1. Gratuitous use of minority characters that have nothing to do with the plot, and perhaps don’t even make sense.
2. Female protagonists start the movie being fairly competent at, well, everything. The main thing holding them back is a lack of belief in themselves.
3. Men, even the ones supporting the protagonist, are generally portrayed as incompetent, ignorant, and biased. They age poorly, and have nothing to teach except to highlight how awesome the female character is. (See point #2)
4. A weak story arc. Viewers are expected to appreciate the Strong Female Character as she realizes she’s awesome just the way she is, no real arc happens.
5. ON EDIT: All the above are applied to movies based on established IP with existing cultural resonance. Original work is rarely criticized as ‘woke’. (Wish I had remembered to include this in the first place, rather than an after-the-fact ON EDIT.)

There are other points I could bring up, but these are some of the basics. One can have a fun ‘woke’ movie, one can have a crap non-woke movie.

And just so that I don’t get accused of being some closet misogynist, I’m going to provide two female characters that I consider 'woke, and two that are not so that a comparison can be made to illustrate above points:

Woke:

Galadriel - from Amazon’s ‘Rings of Power’

Rey - from Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Well written female characters:

Vi - from Arcane

Ripley - from Alien

I can’t speak to whether this is a good movie or not, as I haven’t seen it yet. What I can notice is that the ‘Barbie’ IP appeals to a broad demographic, and every woman I know is planning on seeing this soon.

Strongly suspect Barbie movie’s success is due to good marketing, not alleged ‘wokeness’.

Tesla, Hummer, any huge truck.

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Disclaimer: It’s entirely possible two of the above individuals are bots.