What is Barbie Really About?- Podcast #722
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss the many layers of Barbie and why it has become such a phenomenon and lightning rod when it comes to discussing gender differences. They share candidly about seeing each other’s perspectives, how to think critically, and how to bring our ‘whole’ selves into the viewing experience. They discuss why the movie is an existential crisis, a representation of girlhood and womanhood, and an absolute paradox all at the same time. This is a good podcast to listen to with your partner and/or family! For the full show notes, visit zenpopparenting.com.
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Time Stamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:06:50) Existential crisis
(00:10:00) Beta male
(00:13:50) The Problem with the word “Woke”
(00:17:18) The Bechdel Test
(00:19:30) The Bechdel Test Statistics
(00:20:47) Looking through men’s eyes
(00:23:43) Todd’s initial impression about the Barbie movie
(00:25:03) This is the Summer of Female Economics
(00:27:08) Ccritical thinking
(00:29:40) Having women at the center doesn’t equate to man-hating
(00:34:20) Our boys are getting left behind
(00:35:20) How do we talk about the truth without offending boys?
(00:37:00) How do we have healthy masculinity?
(00:44:44) Why do you think a man thinks he can’t be expansive enough?
(00:46:30) The familiarity of girlhood
(00:49:10) Why you are people looking at me this way
(00:53:14) New Barbie: Not about man-hating. It’s a shift – women empowerment, creating the life they dreamt of as little girls
(00:55:20) Navigating a situation and saying something
(00:57:47) The paradox of Barbie and the men
(00:59:09) What is the paradox of womanhood?
(1:02:22) The importance of speaking your mind
(1:06:00) Dads go take your sons to Barbie
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| 0:00.0 | do do do do do do do do do do here we go my name's todd this is gathy welcome back to another episode of |
| 0:08.4 | zen parenting radio this is podcast number 722 why listen to zen parenting radio because you'll feel |
| 0:15.5 | outstanding and always remember our motto which is the best predictor of a child's well being |
| 0:20.2 | is a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:24.2 | On today's show, I think we're titling it called, what's Barbie really about? Is that what you told me? |
| 0:29.5 | Yeah, you said, we're titling it called. |
| 0:32.4 | We're titling it called? |
| 0:33.6 | You said, I think what we're titling it called. |
| 0:36.5 | I need to meditate yeah Todd |
| 0:38.7 | needs to take a deep breath he's been moving from thing to thing let's just take a breathe up |
| 0:43.9 | everybody do this and down there we go so yeah we're gonna i think call it what is Barbie about |
| 0:51.8 | we have um you know Barbie came out a few weeks ago, but we've had |
| 0:56.3 | some guests on the show. And so we're, you know, we didn't do this show right away. But I actually |
| 1:03.5 | like that we're doing this a few weeks later for a few reasons, because you've kind of seen more |
| 1:08.2 | reaction to it and what people are saying about it and the fact |
| 1:11.3 | that it reached a billion dollars yesterday one billion dollars so instead of debating its longevity |
| 1:18.0 | or its ability to make money which we don't have to we've already just got that you know done got that |
| 1:23.6 | there and i'll tell you real quick that when when Margo Robbie was trying to sell this movie, |
| 1:28.3 | this is before Greta Gerwig was even involved. She went, you know, she was looking for producers |
| 1:32.9 | and such and she told them this will be a billion dollar movie. And everyone was like, yeah, |
| 1:37.1 | whatever. And it is. Should we be putting this on the pop culturing platform too, you think? |
| 1:42.6 | Maybe. I mean, it's, it definitely has a lot of |
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