It takes a lot for me to laugh out loud.
Madonna’s Instagram feed is, regularly inducing uncontrollable giggles in me of uncontrollable glee that any pensioner would behave in such a toe-curling, “down with the kids” cringe-worthy way.
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Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie starred as Ken and Barbie in ‘disgusting’ film – but only HE was nominated for an Oscar Credit: Alamy
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Ryan Gosling gave by far the best acting performance as Ken in Barbie Credits: PA
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Piers Morgan was amused by ‘predictable howls of outrage’ over Ken Ryan Gosling’s Oscar nomination
I also find myself cracking up whenever I hear Prince Harry whine about media intrusion given how greedily he invades his own family’s privacy for a silver coin the size of the Grand Canyon.
And watching a “one-foot-in-the-grave” President Biden try to negotiate the steps of Air Force One on a windy day, I can laugh.
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But I don’t think anything made me explode into a more sustained cacophony of choking hysteria at the news that Barbie was snubbed from the Oscars – but Ken wasn’t.
My glee was heightened by the predictable howls of outrage that erupted spontaneously from outraged feminists the world over, and from those oddly weak little men who like to virtue signal their feminist credentials even if it involves mocking men and blaming them for all of society’s ills.
Apparently, the failure of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to nominate Barbie star Margot Robbie for Best Actress and Greta Gerwig for Best Director, while simultaneously nominating Ryan “Ken” Gosling for Best Supporting Actor, is on the same level of historical global tragedy as the Black Death.
And the common theme of social media outrage was that this decision “totally proves the fucking point of the movie!”
TWERP WITHOUT A CROSSBODY
In other words, by not nominating the two key women behind the film’s success, but instead nominating a man, the Academy has shown itself to be a huge, stinking pile of misogynistic manure fueled by a cowardly love of the terrifying “Patriarchy.”
Even Gosling himself joined the horrified reaction, issuing a scathing statement saying he was disappointed that Robbie and Gerwig were snubbed.
Of course, he could have made a much bigger statement of solidarity with his fallen colleagues by saying that he would not accept his nomination and that he would not attend the Oscars.
Ken would definitely do it because the spineless would be too terrified of Barbie’s vengeful wrath not to!
But Ryan is made of sterner stuff and his anger at his co-stars doesn’t quite extend to giving up his own chance at an Oscar.
And it shouldn’t.
Because the truth is that he gave by far the best performance in that otherwise utterly awful film.
MISANDRISTIC PROPAGANDA
Oh, I know, I know, it made a billion dollars at the box office, so it must automatically be one of the best movies ever made – right?
wrong
Some of the worst movies ever made a billion dollars – including unwatchable films like Transformers: Age of Extinction, to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and the three gruesome celluloid disasters of Jurassic World.
As I wrote at the time it came out, Barbie is a truly awful piece of misandrist propaganda that constantly bangs on about “the patriarchy,” painting men as evil oppressors, women as flawlessly perfect victims, and anyone who dares challenge this absurdly biased idea as a disgusting misogynist. .
It’s also based on a factual lie: that Mattel, the actual company that created Barbie, has always been run by a bunch of Alpha males in an all-male boardroom.
In fact, it was run for 30 years by a very smart businesswoman named Ruth Handler, and Mattel’s current 11-member board of directors includes five women.
But to the waking world, feelings are more important than facts, so Barbie is presented as a brilliant, beautiful embodiment of female empowerment who doesn’t need stupid men like Ken to get her going in life.
And Ken is reduced to a pitifully wretched rascal, who hums a gentle dirge over his own “blonde fragility”.
The film’s unfortunate impact was captured in a tweet by singer Lily Allen, who said: “I saw Barbie and Oppenheimer this weekend and my conclusion is that if Oppenheimer had been a woman, Hiroshima might not have happened.”
CLAPTRAP ON MEN
Yes, because women always make such wonderful peace-loving leaders, as our first true queen, Mary I, showed when she burned hundreds of Protestants at the stake, earning her the nickname “Bloody Mary.”
In fact, according to the National Bureau of Economics, between 1480 and 1913, European queens were 27% more likely to wage war than their kings.
So, Barbie is a monstrously disingenuous movie, and while I think Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig are both very talented, I don’t think either deserved an Oscar nomination just for conspiring to make such a man-attacking dunce.
The cold, hard reality is that all the other Best Actress nominees, including Emma Stone and Carey Mulligan, gave better performances, and all the other Best Director nominees, including Justine Triet for the brilliant Anatomy of a Fall, made better films.
And the fact that Ryan Gosling has been nominated for the role of Ken is a gloriously fitting display of karma that can only be enhanced by winning the dinner, looking down at Robbie who glares at him from the front row, quoting a line from the narrator in the film that says “Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him,” she smugly winks and shouts, “Last laugh to the Patriarchy!”
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Margot Robbie has been snubbed in the Best Actress category at the 2024 Oscars Credit: The Mega Agency
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Director Greta Gerwig was not included in the nominations for the Oscar for the best director for the movie BarbieCredits: Mega Agency
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