Hello Tina, I love watching what you create. Has anyone told you that you are great at cutting a straight line of paper with your scissors? 😳😊 I can't cut a straight line to save my life. 🙄 Well done you!!! Thanks for sharing so much with us all. Happy Crafting to you, and everyone here. ✂️📏📚🖇
I can't cut a straight line to cut my life either so my son having seen me get frustrated bought me a trimmer and a guillotine for my birthday. I was so happy!
These are neat pockets Tina. I can't imagine your first video being as bad as you say. I will have to check it out. Tell your son "Happy Birthday" and enjoy his driving!! Before my son was old enough to drive, we used to go to the cemetery, where my husband is buried, and I would let him drive in there. It was like a mini driving course. Time sure goes by fast and before you know it, they are grown and moved out on their own. Enjoy them while they are there with you. You will surely miss them when they are gone. 💕💕💕
It’s Margot Robbie … love these pockets … happy birthday to your middle son for Friday my eldest daughter will be 33 on Saturday the fifth it’s crazy how quick the years fly by when you have children ❤
These are cool - and I love the papers you used. I'm on a ruffle kick - I just watched your fabric and paper ruffle tutorials. This looks like the same technique on a larger scale. I am definitely going to give this a try - thank you so much for sharing 🥰
I love these and I can make them of different lengths and widths and adapt them! Plan to make them this weekend. Going to London for the Rossetti exhibit on Saturday as I love pre-Raphaelite art. The weather is still supposed to be rubbish so Sunday will be craft day. I love circuses now, like Cirque du Soleil. They are so artistic and can be beautiful. I disliked them when they had animals as they treated the animals so badly, kept them in cages and wild animals traveling around everywhere must be horrible for them. So, YAY for the circus without animals!
This is new to me😍 yeh.. the weather has been horrebly here in arctic Norrway too 😭 it has been 10 degrees, rain and completely cloudy for 3 weeks now. It is like autumn. It is supose to be sun day and night, and around 20 degrees. Twenty degrees on the plus side. The reindeers are happy though. Less bugs for them❤ lots of love from 🌪arctic Norrway 🙌🌼🏵🌹🌺🌻
Can only speak of our nephew who is in the circus. He attended extracurricular classes while in elementary school. Then onto a high school followed by CEGEP (college) for circus students. Has traveled, and continues to travel the world. He specializes in juggling, acrobatics and roue Cyr. He and his equally talented partner are based in London England presently. It has been an amazing journey to watch his stage presence at that very first show to where he, indeed, they are now. Montreal is the place to develop circus entertainers. Love the pockets. Another to be added to my must make list
Wow, just googled what roue cyr was, another mesmerising thing to watch. Honestly I am just in awe of the talent and commitment to their craft that circus entertainers have, they’re just incredible. He and his partner must have a very fun and varied life, hard work though I’m sure. Thank you for sharing how he got involved and trained, I find it really fascinating xx
Ohy GOSH, Tina!! Yes!! That first time with the fire eaters and the motorcyclists who drive around inside those balls or jump over stacks of burning cars or the trapeze artists who swing and let go that FIRST TIME without a net hoping their partner will catch them!! I think about that stuff ALL the time! Ugh! I mean, that split second when you realize you're TOTALLY committed and there is NO turning back. 😬😬!! Love today's vid... Nice and long! 😊. It seems I have to come shopping at your place cuz I can only find one color of tiny rose trim AND I still desperately want your black diamonte trim. ...pay day is coming!! Woo hoo!! Love you, sweetie, and I'll see you in a few days. Hugs, MK 🤗❤️🌵❤️🤗
laughing my head off. Ryan comparisons 🤣 Kirstin Dunst escapes you all the time. You will be googling. Margot Robbie is so lovely. I have heard its great for young girls. Seen the premiere video thing. I'll wait till it comes on sky lol.. Loved the Concertina pockets this way. So much easy to do too. I'm thinking of the parents of the fire eaters. Can you imagine the shock of seeing your son putting fire in his mouth 🤣 All kids go through the fire fascination but eating it. O my days. Have a lovely day Tina. We are so in winter now xxx
I've really enjoyed making these. Thanks for sharing with us. Also, I love the ring you're wearing today. You always have pretty ones but this one is gorgeous!❤
these are nice! I think I liked the first fold the most, pulls down for me nicely to right on. They are all pretty and of course lovely digitals by you for sure... Margot Robbie! is quite a good actress...very versatile isn't she?!!
193!!! Ooh a variation, cool. Oh yes, I like this version more! Loads of functions too! Oh that's cool too! Lol Amazon, for everything 🙈. Aw don't need to apologise honey. Pleaded you feel better now. Yes autumn has landed, so wet and windy 🙈. I had tights on yesterday too. I like Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn was another great part for her) but NOT Barbie🙈. Lol sounds like a mad twist though. 😄 love your daughter's rebellion🙊. I've never been to the circus! I watched cirque du soliel on t.v.which was amazing. 😂 I love clowns (Halloween ones). Pleased there's no animals now. Lol they start on low down equipment and use nets up high for training. Even so, it's probably in their blood and around it their whole lives. I did gymnastics when young and loved the bars, trestle etc. The bikes are amazing, no idea how they get that good. They obviously work extremely hard in the troup. Happy 17th birthday! My youngest is 15 this year (my oldest just turned 35! 😱). Don't think he'll mind the rain 🙊. My Mr started Hannibal again and I'd forgotten how good looking Hugh Dancy was 😍 (Will, poor broken Will!). It takes a while to get to the pigs but I like the psychological deep dive it takes. Gillian Anderson is always good (you HAVE to watch her in The Fall) on Netflix!! It's brilliant) and Eddie Izzard is good too I think. Anderson is very demure and elegant in everything. Oh I've been using that square pearl trim lately, makes cute flower centres too. The grey lace looks so pretty on the pink 😍. Did they leave your house messy?🙈. Really cool, love the variations. Tfs and have a great day 💖💖💖
Hi Tina, I love these mass makes, I’m pretty sure I didn’t go this one the first time around, but I love them, you have inspired me to play and try other ways to make these, Thank you so much I adore the way you made them to start us off. Take care Xx🦋🦋🦋
Super cute excited to make these beautiful pockets just purchased 2 new 12x12 paper pads time to use them and stop hoarding them. Thanks for sharing! 💞
Tina these pockets are great! Love them. I’m much older than you are and from the states so I remember the circus of old! Lol we went every year and I loved it so much. Now I’m appalled by the treatment of the animals, but loved everything about the circus it was magical as a little girl. Thanks for reminding us!
Tina, these are so creative. I haven't seen these before. I really find these loads of fun. I will be giving them a go. Thank you for always inspiring. Always being so positive and cheerful. Xo, Julie
Beautiful pieces! I agree to that going back certainly does allow for updates. Hope you have a wonderful week, and know that in a not creepy way that i am alway watching, LOL 😀 Michelle x
We pay tons for cable channels, many of which we never watch. I’m happy to contribute to great RUclips channels like yours that I do watch and love. P.S. I’m always agog at how you can cut wonderfully straight cuts with your scissors!
Tina, I don't believe I have seen anything like these before. I really think they are great and will try making a few. Have a great week and look forward to your Friday video.❤
Such a lovely video Tina. Such beautiful concertina pockets! How funny that you educated us about the circus! I just said how I wouldn’t want to take our grandkids to the circus. I needed this education! I believe I was scared to pieces when I was young with the clowns! I had no idea they changed it to acrobatics! How wonderful! ❤🦋❤️🦋
Hi Tina hope your sky’s have all been sunny you know I have been watching your videos for 3 years and I have gathered everything I can possibly use for my journals but beyond making my Grandchildren one and my daughter I’ve yet to really try to make a large one I just don’t know where to start
By Rebecca Kiessling: "For my birthday, I thought it would be fun to take my older teen daughters to see #BarbieTheMovie . We wore pink and thought we were in for lots of laughs, a bit of nostalgia and maybe a nice message. [Spoiler alert] But right away, little girls are depicted as oppressed by having to play with baby dolls, unhappy having to push strollers, all wearing drab prairie dresses. Then life-size 50s Barbie appears and they celebrate by brutally and angrily smashing their baby dolls' heads in. I immediately thought, "Uh oh." But then I was amused to see what I'd hoped for: the life-size re-creation of Malibu Barbie world, which was very nostalgic for me. However, I immediately thought it was odd that Barbie blew off Ken - like Ken and Barbie were never a thing. But I still anticipated that she'd realize how rude she's been, how "her Ken" and all the other Kens are homeless, car-less, jobless, etc, and that maybe there would be a positive message there with balance being achieved in the end. But no, it took another dark turn where she suddenly blurts out asking if anyone else thinks about death. Well, for me, it's been every day since losing my 2 sons. I came to see the Barbie movie as a respice from that. The woman playing with Barbie in "the real world" has been thinking about death. The movie makes the express point that for women, life is very complicated and can be painful at times. Yes, so true, but I suspect most women going to see Barbie were thinking it'd be fun, with a nice message - entertaining, an escape from the reality of what's painful in life. But no, the filmmakers went dark. If I am in a good space and mindset to go see a dark, contemplative movie talking about the struggle of thinking about death, it's not going to be the Barbie movie! And it just got darker from there... The Barbie movie went over the top, 100% made men look stupid (even the Alann doll who was trying to help them) and if left unchecked, the men become patriarchal, rude, obnoxious and subvert women. It got uncomfortable... There was no love represented between a man and a woman. The character from the real world had a husband, but was depicted as a buffoon. The whole film was 100% women's independence from men. Back in Barbieland, the women who had become tainted by the men all got "deprogrammed" through a well-reasoned plea about womanhood (which was actually really great), but a reasoned plea wasn't even tried on the men. No, they had to be tricked by having the women act stupid and helpless - like that's what it takes to please a man or to get his attention. The men pout once "the party's over" for them. There never ends up being a real reconciliation between the Kens and the Barbies. Kens are all still homeless, jobless and are told by the female President that they may get a chance to play more of a role in their society, but then she laughs along with all the other Barbies side glancing when a Ken asks if he can serve on the Supreme Court. In today's culture, I think it's clear why, and it's obvious what the message being delivered by the filmmakers is - we have to rule so they can have abortions. The film repeatedly mocked Midge - the pregnant Barbie "ew, creepy. Who wants to see THAT?" It made the point that she was discontinued because sales weren't good. Well, what about the transgender Barbie who was one of "stereotypical Barbie's" inner circle friends (who had plenty of lines in the movie)? Has Mattel ever in fact tried selling transgender Barbie? I'd love to see how those sales go. Nobody wants to play with Ken in a bikini with Barbie's bust. But they're being 100% woke. And the movie ends anti-climactic, not with Barbie going for a job interview, discovering what important things she will do with her life, but going to a gynecologist because she's finally a "real woman" with a vagina. Well, which is it woke Hollywood? Does having a vagina make you a real woman or can those with a penis be a real woman too? I highly recommend against going to see Barbie."
You make some great points Ann, a lot of things that I had missed completely. Completely going against feminism, I have to be honest and say that I was with my daughters frame of mind and would have preferred to see the fun “pink” world of Barbie and avoid all the depressing “real life” issues that were thrown in. Sadly it seems that we can’t just see a bit of fun anymore can we, without as you say them having to prove points and bring up issues that they deem will be popular, shame we can’t just enjoy some good old entertainment xx
Oh wow! Send us some of that rain here in Texas, lol the heat is dreadful 🥵
Yes!
Oh wow. This method is so much better than the last time around. 🥰👏👏👏👏😎
Hello Tina,
I love watching what you create.
Has anyone told you that you are great at cutting a straight line of paper with your scissors? 😳😊
I can't cut a straight line to save my life. 🙄
Well done you!!!
Thanks for sharing so much with us all.
Happy Crafting to you, and everyone here. ✂️📏📚🖇
I can't cut a straight line to cut my life either so my son having seen me get frustrated bought me a trimmer and a guillotine for my birthday. I was so happy!
save my life that is!
Happy Birthday to your son; hope it's a beautiful day all around.
Thank you so much, we had a fun day xx
Beautiful Tina ..love them xx
giday i love watching you work and the pockets are beautiful cheers
Wow! This is different Tina! I love it,
Tyfs ❤
Hugs. Maggie ❤️🤗🇨🇦❤️
I love this one. Thanks for sharing. I hope Friday is a nice day for driving for your son. Have a good week. 😃
Thank you so much and for your wishes for my sons nice day xx
Not seen this before, different, I like these, must give them a go. Great video as always Tina x
Dear Tina, just pretty, and fantasic...❤
These are real cute💜
Love these. Your such an inspiration. ❤
These are great! Thank you. I fancy going to the circus now. 💖
Haha, it really is so awe inspiring, I could watch all those performers for hours, they are just sooooooo talented xx
Lovely!❤❤
These are neat pockets Tina. I can't imagine your first video being as bad as you say. I will have to check it out. Tell your son "Happy Birthday" and enjoy his driving!! Before my son was old enough to drive, we used to go to the cemetery, where my husband is buried, and I would let him drive in there. It was like a mini driving course. Time sure goes by fast and before you know it, they are grown and moved out on their own. Enjoy them while they are there with you. You will surely miss them when they are gone. 💕💕💕
I thought the Barbie movie was wonderful!
Very cute concertina piece!
Love these!
Love them!
Tina, you are cracking me up with your thoughts about fire eaters and "the death cage"!
Really nice project! Thanks for sharing.
Pretty. TFS 🤗
Very pretty!
Gorgeous Tina, thank you so much xx 😘
Thank you so much Jules and for taking the time to comment on so many videos xxx
Fun video. Will give it a try. ❤❤❤
It’s Margot Robbie … love these pockets … happy birthday to your middle son for Friday my eldest daughter will be 33 on Saturday the fifth it’s crazy how quick the years fly by when you have children ❤
I like these. Very attractive and practical if you like journaling space o your journals which I do.❤
I like your method of cutting your papers, im limited on space to getting out my cutters. These are beautiful. ❤
These are really cute. I'll need to give them a try 😊
Hi Tina. Love this project. I must say I've never seen anyone hold a glue bottle quite like you.💖
Lol, thank you Valerie. I have no idea why I hold the glue that way, I wasn’t even aware of it until someone mentioned it a couple of years ago 🫢 xx
Great pocket!
This is very cool. TFS
Austin TX USA
These are cool - and I love the papers you used. I'm on a ruffle kick - I just watched your fabric and paper ruffle tutorials. This looks like the same technique on a larger scale. I am definitely going to give this a try - thank you so much for sharing 🥰
Oh fantastic comparison, I hadn’t even thought of that, but yes so similar. Have fun xxx
I just realised, these make a cool belly band! XXX
I love these and I can make them of different lengths and widths and adapt them! Plan to make them this weekend. Going to London for the Rossetti exhibit on Saturday as I love pre-Raphaelite art. The weather is still supposed to be rubbish so Sunday will be craft day. I love circuses now, like Cirque du Soleil. They are so artistic and can be beautiful. I disliked them when they had animals as they treated the animals so badly, kept them in cages and wild animals traveling around everywhere must be horrible for them. So, YAY for the circus without animals!
Very nice!
I'll have to give these a try ❤
This is new to me😍 yeh.. the weather has been horrebly here in arctic Norrway too 😭 it has been 10 degrees, rain and completely cloudy for 3 weeks now. It is like autumn. It is supose to be sun day and night, and around 20 degrees. Twenty degrees on the plus side. The reindeers are happy though. Less bugs for them❤ lots of love from 🌪arctic Norrway 🙌🌼🏵🌹🌺🌻
Can only speak of our nephew who is in the circus. He attended extracurricular classes while in elementary school. Then onto a high school followed by CEGEP (college) for circus students. Has traveled, and continues to travel the world. He specializes in juggling, acrobatics and roue Cyr. He and his equally talented partner are based in London England presently. It has been an amazing journey to watch his stage presence at that very first show to where he, indeed, they are now. Montreal is the place to develop circus entertainers. Love the pockets. Another to be added to my must make list
Wow, just googled what roue cyr was, another mesmerising thing to watch. Honestly I am just in awe of the talent and commitment to their craft that circus entertainers have, they’re just incredible. He and his partner must have a very fun and varied life, hard work though I’m sure. Thank you for sharing how he got involved and trained, I find it really fascinating xx
Ohy GOSH, Tina!! Yes!! That first time with the fire eaters and the motorcyclists who drive around inside those balls or jump over stacks of burning cars or the trapeze artists who swing and let go that FIRST TIME without a net hoping their partner will catch them!! I think about that stuff ALL the time! Ugh! I mean, that split second when you realize you're TOTALLY committed and there is NO turning back. 😬😬!!
Love today's vid... Nice and long! 😊. It seems I have to come shopping at your place cuz I can only find one color of tiny rose trim AND I still desperately want your black diamonte trim. ...pay day is coming!! Woo hoo!!
Love you, sweetie, and I'll see you in a few days. Hugs, MK 🤗❤️🌵❤️🤗
Hi Tina love these the ways you can make.them and embellish them is fantastic. TFS. Take care. 💕
Very nice. I can see some in my projects.
Oh bles your nephew’s heart! How sweet that was to see the Barbie movie just to be with your daughter! That’s a truly great friend!❤️🫶🏼
Haha, yes it was a big sacrifice for him 🤗😂🥰 x
laughing my head off. Ryan comparisons 🤣 Kirstin Dunst escapes you all the time. You will be googling. Margot Robbie is so lovely. I have heard its great for young girls. Seen the premiere video thing. I'll wait till it comes on sky lol.. Loved the Concertina pockets this way. So much easy to do too. I'm thinking of the parents of the fire eaters. Can you imagine the shock of seeing your son putting fire in his mouth 🤣 All kids go through the fire fascination but eating it. O my days. Have a lovely day Tina. We are so in winter now xxx
These are wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing. Hope you’re doing well.❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, and for your well wishes xxx
I've really enjoyed making these. Thanks for sharing with us. Also, I love the ring you're wearing today. You always have pretty ones but this one is gorgeous!❤
Great idea Tina, I think adding the backing paper is a definite improvement too 😄. Hope you’re doing okay x
As always Tina, you give new ideas that are beautiful and different. TFS sweetheart!
these are nice! I think I liked the first fold the most, pulls down for me nicely to right on. They are all pretty and of course lovely digitals by you for sure... Margot Robbie! is quite a good actress...very versatile isn't she?!!
These are lovely pieces of ephemera that will make a great addition to any journal!!!!!!!
Great attachment for a journal with many possibilities!!!
Love these pockets Tina. They are unique. A fun project to be placed in a journal. Be well, be safe & TYFS
Looks amazing! And it is something totally different. Thank you so much, Tina.
Take care!
193!!! Ooh a variation, cool. Oh yes, I like this version more! Loads of functions too! Oh that's cool too! Lol Amazon, for everything 🙈. Aw don't need to apologise honey. Pleaded you feel better now. Yes autumn has landed, so wet and windy 🙈. I had tights on yesterday too. I like Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn was another great part for her) but NOT Barbie🙈. Lol sounds like a mad twist though. 😄 love your daughter's rebellion🙊. I've never been to the circus! I watched cirque du soliel on t.v.which was amazing. 😂 I love clowns (Halloween ones). Pleased there's no animals now. Lol they start on low down equipment and use nets up high for training. Even so, it's probably in their blood and around it their whole lives. I did gymnastics when young and loved the bars, trestle etc. The bikes are amazing, no idea how they get that good. They obviously work extremely hard in the troup. Happy 17th birthday! My youngest is 15 this year (my oldest just turned 35! 😱). Don't think he'll mind the rain 🙊. My Mr started Hannibal again and I'd forgotten how good looking Hugh Dancy was 😍 (Will, poor broken Will!). It takes a while to get to the pigs but I like the psychological deep dive it takes. Gillian Anderson is always good (you HAVE to watch her in The Fall) on Netflix!! It's brilliant) and Eddie Izzard is good too I think. Anderson is very demure and elegant in everything. Oh I've been using that square pearl trim lately, makes cute flower centres too. The grey lace looks so pretty on the pink 😍. Did they leave your house messy?🙈. Really cool, love the variations. Tfs and have a great day 💖💖💖
Hi Tina, I love these mass makes, I’m pretty sure I didn’t go this one the first time around, but I love them, you have inspired me to play and try other ways to make these, Thank you so much I adore the way you made them to start us off. Take care Xx🦋🦋🦋
I love the pockets they are so pretty I bought the digitals to make some for journals Thank you For sharing ❤
Super cute excited to make these beautiful pockets just purchased 2 new 12x12 paper pads time to use them and stop hoarding them. Thanks for sharing! 💞
Such a great idea! I saved this as it makes great journaling space! Thank you!
Tina these pockets are great! Love them. I’m much older than you are and from the states so I remember the circus of old! Lol we went every year and I loved it so much. Now I’m appalled by the treatment of the animals, but loved everything about the circus it was magical as a little girl. Thanks for reminding us!
Love this! Will definitely be following along and adding them to journals!
Nice idea 👍💡
This is a cute and different piece of ephemera for journals. I love it and going to give it a try!
That’s gorgeous Tina
Tina, these are so creative. I haven't seen these before. I really find these loads of fun. I will be giving them a go. Thank you for always inspiring. Always being so positive and cheerful. Xo, Julie
Y’all are cold and here in Louisiana, we’re hitting 100F plus.
Beautiful pieces! I agree to that going back certainly does allow for updates. Hope you have a wonderful week, and know that in a not creepy way that i am alway watching, LOL 😀 Michelle x
Hiya hun I got mine off
Amazon's all my
Punches are mostly from there or hobby craft the ones from Amazon were a set of 3 dif sizes
Thanks!
We pay tons for cable channels, many of which we never watch. I’m happy to contribute to great RUclips channels like yours that I do watch and love. P.S. I’m always agog at how you can cut wonderfully straight cuts with your scissors!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kindness and your super thanks, 🥰 xx
Tina, I don't believe I have seen anything like these before. I really think they are great and will try making a few. Have a great week and look forward to your Friday video.❤
Such a lovely video Tina. Such beautiful concertina pockets!
How funny that you educated us about the circus! I just said how I wouldn’t want to take our grandkids to the circus. I needed this education! I believe I was scared to pieces when I was young with the clowns! I had no idea they changed it to acrobatics! How wonderful! ❤🦋❤️🦋
These are amazing and very easy as well. Hugs, Tina!!!
These pockets are not to bad to make, I was making some along with you, thank you Tina. :)
These are solovely Tina tfs...Kia Kaha...
Hi Tina hope your sky’s have all been sunny you know I have been watching your videos for 3 years and I have gathered everything I can possibly use for my journals but beyond making my Grandchildren one and my daughter I’ve yet to really try to make a large one I just don’t know where to start
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I like 22 and I consider myself a Christian but I saw him as a person who is Seeking Justice and Truth
Clowns freak me out too
Lol, it’s funny isn’t it, it’s quite a common fear I think 🤣 xx
like. this idea something a little different thank you for sharing
THEOLA
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Margo robbie
By Rebecca Kiessling: "For my birthday, I thought it would be fun to take my older teen daughters to see #BarbieTheMovie . We wore pink and thought we were in for lots of laughs, a bit of nostalgia and maybe a nice message. [Spoiler alert] But right away, little girls are depicted as oppressed by having to play with baby dolls, unhappy having to push strollers, all wearing drab prairie dresses. Then life-size 50s Barbie appears and they celebrate by brutally and angrily smashing their baby dolls' heads in. I immediately thought, "Uh oh."
But then I was amused to see what I'd hoped for: the life-size re-creation of Malibu Barbie world, which was very nostalgic for me.
However, I immediately thought it was odd that Barbie blew off Ken - like Ken and Barbie were never a thing. But I still anticipated that she'd realize how rude she's been, how "her Ken" and all the other Kens are homeless, car-less, jobless, etc, and that maybe there would be a positive message there with balance being achieved in the end.
But no, it took another dark turn where she suddenly blurts out asking if anyone else thinks about death. Well, for me, it's been every day since losing my 2 sons. I came to see the Barbie movie as a respice from that. The woman playing with Barbie in "the real world" has been thinking about death. The movie makes the express point that for women, life is very complicated and can be painful at times. Yes, so true, but I suspect most women going to see Barbie were thinking it'd be fun, with a nice message - entertaining, an escape from the reality of what's painful in life. But no, the filmmakers went dark. If I am in a good space and mindset to go see a dark, contemplative movie talking about the struggle of thinking about death, it's not going to be the Barbie movie! And it just got darker from there...
The Barbie movie went over the top, 100% made men look stupid (even the Alann doll who was trying to help them) and if left unchecked, the men become patriarchal, rude, obnoxious and subvert women. It got uncomfortable...
There was no love represented between a man and a woman. The character from the real world had a husband, but was depicted as a buffoon. The whole film was 100% women's independence from men.
Back in Barbieland, the women who had become tainted by the men all got "deprogrammed" through a well-reasoned plea about womanhood (which was actually really great), but a reasoned plea wasn't even tried on the men. No, they had to be tricked by having the women act stupid and helpless - like that's what it takes to please a man or to get his attention. The men pout once "the party's over" for them. There never ends up being a real reconciliation between the Kens and the Barbies. Kens are all still homeless, jobless and are told by the female President that they may get a chance to play more of a role in their society, but then she laughs along with all the other Barbies side glancing when a Ken asks if he can serve on the Supreme Court. In today's culture, I think it's clear why, and it's obvious what the message being delivered by the filmmakers is - we have to rule so they can have abortions.
The film repeatedly mocked Midge - the pregnant Barbie "ew, creepy. Who wants to see THAT?" It made the point that she was discontinued because sales weren't good. Well, what about the transgender Barbie who was one of "stereotypical Barbie's" inner circle friends (who had plenty of lines in the movie)? Has Mattel ever in fact tried selling transgender Barbie? I'd love to see how those sales go. Nobody wants to play with Ken in a bikini with Barbie's bust. But they're being 100% woke. And the movie ends anti-climactic, not with Barbie going for a job interview, discovering what important things she will do with her life, but going to a gynecologist because she's finally a "real woman" with a vagina. Well, which is it woke Hollywood? Does having a vagina make you a real woman or can those with a penis be a real woman too?
I highly recommend against going to see Barbie."
You make some great points Ann, a lot of things that I had missed completely. Completely going against feminism, I have to be honest and say that I was with my daughters frame of mind and would have preferred to see the fun “pink” world of Barbie and avoid all the depressing “real life” issues that were thrown in. Sadly it seems that we can’t just see a bit of fun anymore can we, without as you say them having to prove points and bring up issues that they deem will be popular, shame we can’t just enjoy some good old entertainment xx
Margot Robbie, I think is her name.
Then when you get home you have to pay some and got out and kiss the ground
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