Lebanon, once thought of as among the most liberal parts of the Middle East, is poised to ban global hit movie “Barbie.” More conservative Kuwait said Wednesday that it had gone ahead with a ban du…
Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.
“Different country, different culture” doesn’t make homophobia okay, and it doesn’t make it okay to call the movie homophobic when it had nothing at all to do with gay people. They’re just calling it that because their fragile patriarchy conceives of an attack against it as being anti-man which to them is also gay. It’s a disgusting and wrong point of view, and we can say that despite their country and culture.
Barbie was a pretty thorough takedown of patriarchy and toxic masculinity and hardly seemed superficial to me.
And I would hope those countries’ points of view would in fact be very difficult to understand.
“Different country, different culture” doesn’t make homophobia okay, and it doesn’t make it okay to call the movie homophobic when it had nothing at all to do with gay people. They’re just calling it that because their fragile patriarchy conceives of an attack against it as being anti-man which to them is also gay. It’s a disgusting and wrong point of view, and we can say that despite their country and culture.
Barbie was a pretty thorough takedown of patriarchy and toxic masculinity and hardly seemed superficial to me.
And I would hope those countries’ points of view would in fact be very difficult to understand.