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Ken = Dumb Sexist White Guy

posted 2 years ago by RustyShckleford (191)
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Because of course he is

[–] aavfreak (3366) 2 years ago

I thought it was so strange in the trailer when he clearly believes that only men can be doctors. Yet isn't there a Barbie for everything? Certainly Doctor Barbie. Why would Ken think only men can be doctors, given the world he lives in?

[–] liscarkat (19031) 2 years ago

Maybe he's just stupid and uninformed. When Barbie appeared in 1959, about one out of fourteen medical doctors in the U.S. was a woman. That's more than 20,000 women doctors. Certainly he would've heard of some, if his head wasn't up his ass.

[–] LeWildPlatypus (770) 2 years ago

Careful, such an observation means you'll get labelled fragile. Men being depicted as infantile and stupid is a good thing for society.

[–] BrandNewPoster (10996) 2 years ago

It's a comedy and he is meant to be a comedic character. He doesn't represent all men, any more than Darth Vader does.

[–] CMX (266) 2 years ago

Unfair comparison. This movie is going to have a lot of social commentary, unlike Star Wars.

[–] Kowalski (77085) 2 years ago

It's a comedy and he is meant to be a comedic character. He doesn't represent all men, any more than TYLER DURDEN does.

[–] CMX (266) 2 years ago

So you agree that Ken represents men then?

[–] cyguration (3951) 2 years ago

Tyler Durden was drenched in post-modernist social commentary. Of course he didn't represent all men.

But it sounds like Ken is going to be drenched in post-modernist social commentary as well, but not in an positively anarchistic way like Durden (who at least was basically pushing the red-pill message before red-pill was even a thing, of being better, improving yourself, working out, getting stronger, and becoming a high-value and respectable man).