“Disappointingly Low T From Ken”: The Republican Warfare on Barbie Continues

Matt Gaetz, the Republican Congressman from Florida just lately beneath investigation for allegedly having intercourse with a minor, is seemingly not resistant to Barbie mania. He and his spouse Ginger Gaetz attended a particular screening of Barbie on the dwelling of the British ambassador in Washington, D.C. on Monday, and have been photographed posing on the pink carpet of their Barbiecore finest. Nevertheless it appears the style was the spotlight of their evening, primarily based on Ginger’s tweet the subsequent day. 

“The 2023 Barbie film, sadly, neglects to handle any notion of religion or household, and tries to normalize the concept that women and men can’t collaborate positively (yuck),” writes Ginger, who eloped with Gaetz in 2021; they met and received engaged at Mar-a-Lago. Ginger continues that whereas whereas she preferred Margot Robbie’s efficiency and the “gorgeous costume design,” she was not a fan of the “unfair therapy of pregnant Barbie Midge” or the “disappointingly reside T from Ken.”

She’s not the one member of the household who‘s a fan of Robbie. Gaetz, responding to a tweet pondering why he would see a film with a trans Barbie given his beliefs, singled out Robbie in a spelling-challenged comeback

Truthfully, we’re getting some blended messages from the Gaetz crew right here. Ginger would like you not see it in any respect and put on your pink gear to Oppenheimer (a movie the place Republicans come off nice!), whereas Matt thinks your decisions are to purchase a Barbie ticket or let the terrorists win. As with every thing else within the right-wing backlash to Barbie, it most likely solely advantages Barbie. With Ted Cruz additionally on the market railing in opposition to the film for its alleged promotion of Chinese language communism, and Barbie nonetheless on observe to make as a lot as $100 million domestically in its opening weekend, it stays Barbie’s world…. and he‘s simply Matt Gaetz.