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[darrylgorn]

Barbiecore isn't just the summer's hottest trend. It's a Gen Z and Millennial statement on diversity and feminism.

"It's a movement, an aesthetic, a vibe," Fahrah told Insider. "Barbie is diverse now, like Black Barbie. She's had many different jobs. She's a doctor, a veterinarian, a real-estate agent. That's women, that's girls. We can be anything."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bar...nt-diversity-feminism-pink-meaning-2022-7?amp

 

[Aggrotek]

 

[bitbydeath]

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Another new flavor to gain the monies.

 

[Kamina]

That shit always comes from America though

 

[LegendOfKage]

But she's got a new hat...

 

[IntentionalPun]

It’s just the color pink being a trend… like, wtf does that have to do with feminism? Lol

I’ve seen this on instagram and it’s just hot chicks dressing sexy in corny overly pink outfits.

 

[darrylgorn]

It’s just the color pink being a trend… like, wtf does that have to do with feminism? Lol

I’ve seen this on instagram and it’s just hot chicks dressing sexy in corny overly pink outfits.

Get some pink on you before it changes.

 

[Kraz]

Shout at the Devil

 

[Punished Miku]

"Barbiecore is a fun, hot-pink trend, and a statement on the state of the world, enthusiasts say. "

And this is how the internet destroys culture.

Before, you'd have entire regions or cities that were relatively isolated, with localized influences that had time to change and incubate into something new. Punk, goth, grunge, skating scenes. Once fully developed into a unique subculture, they were exciting and fresh, and unique. A cultural contribution.

Now we have a few people wearing pink, and it's already spread across the world in dumb articles with a dumb name and will fizzle out in about 3 months. Enjoy pink everyone. It's a very bright and intense color.

 

[jason10mm]

That article is borderline stupid and I should charge you cash money for making me read it.

I'm gonna counter it with "Trucker Hats, the new symbol of hyper-cool masculinity" and show picks of random billy bobs and a couple really hot guys all wearing trucker hats and create a new "fashion sensation" invented whole cloth from my imagination just to balance out barbiecore.

 

[Kraz]

Before, you'd have entire regions or cities that were relatively isolated, with localized influences that had time to change and incubate into something new. Punk, goth, grunge, skating scenes. Once fully developed into a unique subculture, they were exciting and fresh, and unique. A cultural contribution.

In the beginning
Good always overpowered the evils
Of all man's sins...
But in time
The nations grew weak
And our cities fell to slums
While evil stood strong
In the dusts of hell
Lurked the blackest of hates
For he whom they feared
Awaited them... Now many many lifetimes later
Lay destroyed, beaten, beaten down
Only the corpses of rebels
Ashes of dreams
And blood stained streets
It has been written
"Those who have the youth have the future"
So come now, children of the beast
Be strong and Shout at the Devil

 

[Nankatsu]

 

[daveonezero]

What is a woman?

 

[AJUMP23]

Remove the OPs thread making privilege please.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

K

 

[Lady Jane]

Pink =/= "Barbiecore"

Also, some of the pictures in that Business Insider article are ass ugly

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

why did I read that

 

[Tieno]

Lawl. Feminism is dead. I have no idea what feminism means. Is it a color? Or just a rebranding of doing whatever to get seen?

 

[darrylgorn]

Remove the OPs thread making privilege please.

Hey, I'm doing you a service by informing you now

 

[InfiniteCombo]

like, wtf does that have to do with feminism? Lol

Read the article, they explain it there.

I agree with your premise -- it shouldn't have anything to do with feminism. It's just hot pink, which was already a thing in the 80s. (EDIT: also what Punished Miku said below)

But there are prominent representatives of some generations (younger millennials/Gen Z'ers) for which absolutely everything must be sociopolitical. So that's how you get from "people wearing pink" to "statement on feminist, LGBT, and [insert other intersectional groups here] empowerment."

 

[Punished Miku]

Read the article, they explain it there.

I agree with your premise -- it shouldn't have anything to do with feminism. It's just hot pink, which was already a thing in the 80s.

But there are prominent representatives of some generations (younger millennials/Gen Z'ers) for which absolutely everything must be sociopolitical. So that's how you get from "people wearing pink" to "statement on feminist, LGBT, and [insert other install groups here] empowerment."

It's basically the PINK brand from 2004 just happening again for people too young to remember it. Only now women are even more amazing / oppressed.

"We're taking pink back. No longer will it represent Disney princesses. Now it represents empowerment without sacrificing being part of the male gaze, because that's also power. So double power. PINK/BITCH/BARBIECORE. It means having your cake and eating it too (any size is healthy, amen.) Don't you dare hold the door for me, but you can pay the check."

 

[Tams]

Don't care. One of the best karaoke songs. And this is something I'm willing to fight anyone who says otherwise over.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Don't care. One of the best karaoke songs. And this is something I'm willing to fight anyone who says otherwise over.

if I saw a dude singing Barbie girl at karaoke I’d boo him off the stage

 

[Doom85]

Remove the OPs thread making privilege please.

I am curious why OP was going out of their way to look up articles regarding Barbie…..

 

[West Texas CEO]

if I saw a dude singing Barbie girl at karaoke I’d boo him off the stage

I'd whoop his ass.

 

[Hari Seldon]

It’s just the color pink being a trend… like, wtf does that have to do with feminism? Lol

I’ve seen this on instagram and it’s just hot chicks dressing sexy in corny overly pink outfits.

When I think of dullards being duped into joining the latest flavor of the month tiktok trend that is really a disguise to sell more shit, I think of feminism.

 

[IntentionalPun]

I'd whoop his ass.

Yer so tuff and koool.

 

[DragoonWalker]

Barbiecore isn't just the summer's hottest trend. It's a Gen Z and Millennial statement on diversity and feminism.

"It's a movement, an aesthetic, a vibe," Fahrah told Insider. "Barbie is diverse now, like Black Barbie. She's had many different jobs. She's a doctor, a veterinarian, a real-estate agent. That's women, that's girls. We can be anything."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bar...nt-diversity-feminism-pink-meaning-2022-7?amp

So the new feminism is the old feminism again? Getting 2000s era "gurlz pwr" flashbacks.

But going back further, "Girls can be anything" is feminism as old as time.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Read the article, they explain it there.

I agree with your premise -- it shouldn't have anything to do with feminism. It's just hot pink, which was already a thing in the 80s. (EDIT: also what Punished Miku said below)

But there are prominent representatives of some generations (younger millennials/Gen Z'ers) for which absolutely everything must be sociopolitical. So that's how you get from "people wearing pink" to "statement on feminist, LGBT, and [insert other intersectional groups here] empowerment."

I did read the article (well skimmed.)

My point was that it's just taking a quote from one or 2 people and making it sound like that's what all the people participating in it are doing.. you can click the hashtags for this and check Instagram and it's absolutely NOT that lol

This is just yet another "a couple people said stuff on tiktok/instagram so lets act like it's a huge thing" crap.... it's really not.. it's almost entirely just "girly girls" wearing pink obnoxiously.. people pretending it has anything to do with feminism are doing just that, pretending. I'm sure most of the girls doing this online would laugh at the idea of it being linked to feminism too lol

 

[Tams]

if I saw a dude singing Barbie girl at karaoke I’d boo him off the stage

Imagine doing shitty Western style karaoke on a stage.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

I did read the article (well skimmed.)

My point was that it's just taking a quote from one or 2 people and making it sound like that's what all the people participating in it are doing.. you can click the hashtags for this and check Instagram and it's absolutely NOT that lol

This is just yet another "a couple people said stuff on tiktok/instagram so lets act like it's a huge thing" crap.... it's really not.. it's almost entirely just "girly girls" wearing pink obnoxiously.

100% fair and I agree.

A lot of media are doing this and it's annoying. (Like you said, the whole "two people on Twitter, with maybe 5 followers each, said something... OMG it's a worldwide cultural/sociopolitical trend!"). But the problem is that the media can fool people into thinking its a trend, and can ultimately become a trend if enough people reading the headline believe it.

 

[Punished Miku]

100% fair and I agree.

A lot of media are doing this and it's annoying. (Like you said, the whole "two people on Twitter, with maybe 5 followers each, said something... OMG it's a worldwide cultural/sociopolitical trend!"). But the problem is that the media can fool people into thinking its a trend, and can ultimately become a trend if enough people reading the headline believe it.

There will never again be new significant sub-cultural trends.

We are in the age of memes. Now someone makes an inside joke and it spreads across the world in 2 months. One homogenized corporate culture, all with the same inside jokes.

 

[darrylgorn]

So the new feminism is the old feminism again? Getting 2000s era "gurlz pwr" flashbacks.

But going back further, "Girls can be anything" is feminism as old as time.

I'll take the feminism number 1 plz

 

[Artoris]

Don't care. One of the best karaoke songs. And this is something I'm willing to fight anyone who says otherwise over.

I used to think the man in the video looks like a pussy

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Imagine doing shitty Western style karaoke on a stage.

I don’t do karaoke, but I would imagine your options go beyond “shitty Western” music and Barbie girl

 

[InfiniteCombo]

But going back further, "Girls can be anything" is feminism as old as time.

Was this really feminism though? This didn't come during a feminist wave (1st wave = 1920s; 2nd wave = 1970s; etc), it was almost like an advertisement during a world war to recruit women to the war effort, because a large portion of the capable men were gone overseas.

 

[ahtlas7]

What does bleached Ryan Goosling Goblining Cobling *wtf his name is* have to do with Barbie?

 

[DragoonWalker]

There will never again be new significant sub-cultural trends.

We are in the age of memes. Now someone makes an inside joke and it spreads across the world in 2 months. One homogenized corporate culture, all with the same inside jokes.

Spread across the world in 2 months and then forgotten in 2 minutes. None of them have real impact or reach, because blink and you'll miss it and none it will matter if you do since everyone will be onto the next thing already. What matters becomes less that you're into a particular thing and more that you're constantly up to speed. Dizzying, but pointless.

Was this really feminism though? This didn't come during a feminist wave (1st wave = 1920s; 2nd wave = 1970s; etc), it was almost like an advertisement during a world war to recruit women to the war effort, because a large portion of the capable men were gone overseas.

You're right, it wasn't feminism yet, but in hindsight the image has become something of a feminist icon.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

You're right, it wasn't feminism yet, but in hindsight the image has become something of a feminist icon.

You're 100% right.

Also to add to your point: while that image may not have itself been in the middle of a wave, it was a very powerful image, and what it represented ("hey! women can contribute to the workforce, too!") did eventually give way to the feminist wave of the 60s and 70s.

 

[Tams]

if I saw a dude singing Barbie girl at karaoke I’d boo him off the stage

I'd whoop his ass.

Geez, you two sound like a barrel of fun.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[West Texas CEO]

Geez, you two sound like a barrel of fun.

I'll whoop your ass, too.

 

[Konnor]

I think a lot of women blindly following pseudo-intellectual political trends like it's a goddamn fashion statement has done more to hinder gender equality than a billion incels could. Who can even take this dumb shit anymore or anyone repeating it, if I was a woman I would be embarrassed about this bullshit.

 

[Javthusiast]

I'm down with it.

 

[Woggleman]

Isn't this just a rehashed version of what the Spice Girls were doing? I guess it's better than hateful and bitter kind of feminism.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Isn't this just a rehashed version of what the Spice Girls were doing? I guess it's better than hateful and bitter kind of feminism.

Which is still around

 

[Woggleman]

Which is still around

Of course it is but it would be better if Spice Girls kind of feminism came back.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Of course it is but it would be better if Spice Girls kind of feminism came back.

It would be better if feminism didn't come back at all lol

 

[Dirk Benedict]

It's basically the PINK brand from 2004 just happening again for people too young to remember it. Only now women are even more amazing / oppressed.

"We're taking pink back. No longer will it represent Disney princesses. Now it represents empowerment without sacrificing being part of the male gaze, because that's also power. So double power. PINK/BITCH/BARBIECORE. It means having your cake and eating it too (any size is healthy, amen.) Don't you dare hold the door for me, but you can pay the check."

That's fucking retarded. I know of PLENTY of women who want to partake in the male gaze, they just don't want to to be eyefucked or creeped on. I am so glad a lot of these people put their politics out there, so it's getting easier to avoid these types of people, preemptively. Know what else is cringe, coming from these types? Ethically Non-Monogamous. There is no ethics in fucking other people, while being committed to someone else. If I commit to one person, that is it. I'm not going to ask permission to fuck other people, I'm going to break up with you.