A Letter to Washington Post Movie Critic Ann Hornaday About Her Review of the "Barbie" Movie
Hornaday Forgot to Ask if "Barbie" is Just a Fun, Nostalgic Movie or Feminist Propaganda
Dear Ms. Hornaday,
I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter about your recent review in The Washington Post of the Barbie movie and to thoughtfully consider what I say here.
As a brief introduction, I’m a proud lifelong reader of the Post who has long noticed the paper’s gender bias, most notably its imbalanced coverage of domestic violence.1
But my pride in the Post finally turned to quiet outrage in 2018 after the paper published two undeniably gender-biased articles: Why can't we hate men? and Amber Heard’s shameful op-ed. Since then, I’ve been sending letters to Post columnists who have written articles that perpetuate this bias.
Your review is, unfortunately, another example of this bias.
The proof of your gender bias is that you completely missed the movie’s obvious feminist-inspired message of misandry, only slightly hidden under the movie’s pink fluff. The closing paragraph of an article published recently in The Spectator Australia, Misandrist Barbie, states what you missed:
“The vein of bitterness and anger directed towards fifty percent of the population runs so deeply through this film that I am surprised that the (few) men sitting in the audience tolerated it. It is an offensive, nasty, and profoundly misandrist piece of filmmaking packaged as harmless entertainment. The experience of seeing ‘Barbie’ was like being given a beautifully wrapped gift, only to open it up to find the magot infested rotting corpse of Western Civilisation instead.”
At least one woman, Bella d’Abrera, the author of the above article, isn’t fooled by Barbie’s hateful message.
But that so many people have been delighted by the movie, without recognizing its underlying theme of feminist hatred for men, is itself undeniable proof of the total success of a feminist campaign of political and cultural indoctrination that has gone almost completely unchallenged for the past 60 years (or 175 years if one counts since the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention).
The result of this 60+ year, relentless, man-hating, feminist indoctrination is a worldview that falsely presents women as always-innocent victims and men as women-hating monsters, which in turn inspires people to write biased, distorted articles such as yours.
Or to create man-hating movies like Barbie.
The movie’s entire raison dêtre can be described by the definition of propaganda given in 1933 by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Germany Minister of Propaganda:
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.”2
Both the Barbie movie and your review, coming some 90 years after Goebbels spoke these words are proof that feminist-inspired prejudice has succeeded, even beyond Goebbels’ wildest dreams, in spreading hate, not against Jews, but this time against men, without the movie-going public even aware of feminists’ decades-long propagandistic initiative.
Two Excerpts from Your Review Show Why Your Article Contributes to Feminist Propaganda
“…living together in Barbie Land, a delightfully gynocentric cul-de-sac community of sisterly support and undeferred ambition.”
You have unwittingly described feminism’s utopia, a gynocentric world without men, a specific, decades-long, clearly stated objective of feminism:
“… So the only answer to that is to kill male babies and just kill any man you see in the street. We want the species to go on but only with women in it. So that’s what we have to do.” — Jenny McDermott, “Unhinged Feminist”
"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." "The world would be better off with dramatically fewer men" — Mary Daly, Boston College feminism professor (1967 to 1999)
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.” — Valerie Solanas, the “SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto”
“To secure a world of female values and female freedom we must, I believe, add one more element to the structure of the future: the ratio of men to women must be radically reduced so that men approximate only ten percent of the total population.” — Sally Miller Gearhart, feminism professor, in her book “Reweaving The Web of Life: Feminism and [IRONICALLY] Nonviolence”
“The zaniness of ‘Barbie,’ combined with Gerwig’s interest in skewering the patriarchy, sometimes makes the movie a baggy, tonally dissonant viewing experience.”
By cavalierly mentioning the term “patriarchy”, you have helped promote a hateful feminist myth that is the gender equivalent of Nazi Germany’s “Jewish conspiracy”. If you doubt this comparison, please read my articles "The Patriarchy" is Feminism’s Jewish Conspiracy and The Feminist Conscience.
Anyone who uses the term “patriarchy” should read “The Evolution of Patriarchy” chapter in a book Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life:
“Patriarchy is the way things developed through history. In simple terms, men are pre-disposed physiologically to protect, through their greater musculature, their generally superior strength, and their generally greater height, and this automatically confers a leadership role. … It really is just as simple as that, and it has nothing to do with control, or a desire to control. Quite the reverse: men will sacrifice their health, their safety, their enjoyment of family life and their children, yes, even their lives in the pursuit of their inherent, inherited role [emphasis added]. It is all easily explained in terms of psycho-physiological differences between men and women that set limits on the roles and behaviours of each. It is important to clarify the difference between dominance and domination, terms that are used ambiguously these days, mainly by feminist propagandists to justify what they call patriarchy, and to denigrate men and maleness.”
Ms. Hornaday, your own gender biases have blinded you to the hateful, anti-male sexism that has been spread, mostly unopposed, by 60+ years of feminist cultural and political indoctrination.
To help you see why Barbie is a hateful, misandrist movie, ask yourself:
“Did other movies based on the toys we all grew up with — Toy Story, The Lego Movie, Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons — and dozens of others have an underlying message of “…bitterness and anger directed towards fifty percent of the population?”
The answer, if you would only recognize both your and the Post’s own anti-male gender bias, should be as clear as the hatred disseminated by the Post’s 2018 Why can't we hate men?
My observation was recently confirmed by a February 2023 report that described a 10-Year Suppression of the Truth on Domestic Violence by the Washington Post. The report concludes, “The Coalition to End Domestic Violence calls on the Washington Post, in a timely manner, to run an editorial acknowledging its biased coverage of the domestic abuse issue, and to publish articles that focus on the plight of male victims of domestic violence.”
The Nazi Conscience, Claudia Koonz, 2004, p. 13