I’m on Lemmy World and I can see it too.

Hopefully, the transition to metric is soon and I can stop reading this same joke every week.

Dark Gary knows. You can just tell.

Yeah and depending on how you use it, it can come off as offensive. For a good comparison look at the language surrounding race. “Black people” is a perfectly okay phrase to use. However, saying “the blacks” makes people feel offended and it feels degrading.

All you’re doing is switching it from an adjective to a noun, but it provides a significant change to how it sounds/feels.

Referring to women as female, especially in the same breath as saying men, is impersonal and cold feeling.

They do feel more like specimen terms because it’s really only used in the context of academic material or government forms. Yeah words have their meaning, but you also have to look at the context of how it’s used.

And on top of that it’s still a weird and clunky title. You either say male and female, which does feel weird and impersonal, or you say man and woman. Mixing them like that does feel strange. For example, you wouldn’t say felines and dogs, you’d say cats and dogs. You wouldn’t say interior and outside, you’d say inside and outside or interior and exterior.

Wow media literacy is truly dead. First of all it’s satire. Everything is elevated to such ridiculous levels to poke fun at society. They’re not saying all men care about is hummers and horses. They fail at running Barbieland because the only thing they care about continues to be impressing Barbie and winning her approval. I think you were just looking for something to be mad about or weren’t paying attention if you think that was where the film landed on men and their role in society. You seem to have a very shallow understanding of the film and you need to give it another watch.

Ryan Gosling’s Ken has one of the best arcs in the entire film. He goes from being obsessed, needy, and subservient to being a competitive, stereotypical bro, confusing machismo with self confidence, and finally along with all the other Ken’s realizes that all he needs is to be himself. No competition, no flexing, no being reliant on others to feel good about himself. He gains awareness of the world and the feelings of others around him. No, by the end of the film he doesn’t find his purpose, but he is now in a place where he can explore himself and find it.

Did you somehow miss the entire exposition near the end of the movie? The Kens learn to respect themselves, do what they like, and learn to be themselves instead of attaching their identity to macho bullshit and how Barbie views them. It was a pretty big scene. Gosling comes to grips that Barbie doesn’t love him the way he wants and that he shouldn’t value himself based on how she feels about him. He even covers up with a tie dye “I’m Kenough” hoodie, ditching his fake persona.