my friend once told me girls could marry girls while we were playing with barbies, and I took that concept and ran with it. When I was in the 2nd grade, I was mad at my friend and I literally wrote in my diary "I hope she marries a man"
Said that to my cousin when playing w barbies as well (already had a gay family member so it wasn’t that far of a leap) Every time I think about it I hoped to have inspired shit just like this
When I was a kid I had lots of Barbie's and only 1 ken.... So obviously he would officiate my queer Barbie weddings which would obviously be crashed by Barbie's secret lover who would then confess her undying love for Barbie and convince her to leave her fiancé at the alter and run away with her.... But not before running her ex-fiancé with one of my brother's hot wheels I was a very dramatic child
Honestly the fact that when my babysitter told me to describe my ideal wedding I was like "I wanna marry my best friend and we will have dresses just like Annelise and Erica" tell you a lot about how I interpreted these movies as a child
Mariposa and the fairy princess is basically a gay romance. We already knew Mariposa had a thing for the ever toxic Henna, but now she has a healthy relationship with Princess Catania
*Disclaimer, because of the replies on my comment, I edited it; so just to be clear, this comment is not meant to be offensive. It's just a personal reaction.* I do not see it as logical consequence that Mariposa and Catania "basically a gay romance", or that she has "a thing for" Henna. Yes, it is a healthy relationsip, and it can be interpreted perhaps as romance. But I see it as mere friendship, and I really love also Mariposa and Carlos together, especially because she is dancing with Carlos in the ending. You may interpret it, as you like...but just to mention: (Satirical comment starts..) "Girl smiles at a girl and they befriend --> gay! Girl yells at a girl and they fight --> gay! Is there any chance not being gay nowadays?" (Snarky comment ending) What I mean is that we also should not feel to save in any conclusions. That's the same also with straight romances. I'm not an active shipper, but I feel like that either way, whether gay or straight, real or fictive characters should not pushed into a relationship as "fact"., What is done as fan shipping, is another question; and I understand that there is chemistry as argument. But I just feel that there is a difference how we can jump to conclusions. Alexa and Liana in the Diamond Castle are more likely to be seen as representation than Erika and Anneliese, for example.
@@jimbomyboy9679 I expect the possibility of discussion, and why couldn't the answer be "no - because...." Very honestly, it's fine to discuss things if there is some substance behind it. It's not that I'm against it. I just feel it's losing any seriousness behind it, and is going in wild comedy-theories...
@@felicity1877 You may interpret it, as you like...but just to mention.... Girl & guy look at each other for more than 2 seconds --> in love! Guy pesters girl even after she has told him repeatedly she is not interested--> in love! Is there any chance not being straight nowadays? -- Please look at it from both perspectives. And I would even argue that straight people are usually much 'worse' in this aspect. A lot of writers are just lazy when it comes to straight romance so the romance between the characters end up unfulfilling or just plain bad because the characters have 0 chemistry. They're just a boy and a girl who happen to be in the same room, and BOOM they're in love. Also the weird male fantasy of the unfunny, painfully plain 'average dude' getting together with the most interesting and most attractive woman ever by constantly pressuring her into being in a relationship. Also the "he just bullies you because he likes you and boys cant control their feelings" :/ . This is really sad because not only does it portray a really weird and unhealthy ideal of romance, but also because straight people don't really get any good relationships in media. The only one that I can come up with, on the top of my head, that was really cute is the relationship between Rayla and Callum from The Dragon Prince. But usually its just badly written or plain abusive. And besides, it is fairly undeniable that these movies discussed here have a very queer feeling to them. If you just change Alexa in The Diamond Castle to a guy there would be obvious romantic implications of two people living together, being romantically uninterested in other people, saying they want to stay with each other forever, and then rejecting a life of luxury to go back to their humble home together. Even if they never kissed or explicitly said anything about their relationship, you would automatically assume they were a couple just from the fact that they are a boy and a girl doing these things together. So why are people bending over backwards to proclaim that sapphic relationships or sapphic undertones are just 💞besties™💞?
@@felicity1877 Barbie litterally exists so that people (mainly little girls) can see themselves in her. And a lot of those little girls could be queer and see Barbies relationships with her friends who are girls through a rainbow lens. So it makes sense for Barbie to be bi so that straight little girls and queer little girls can see themselves in some part of her
gosh..... can't blame the lesbians and bisexuals for being confused for years if this is how we portray 'female friendships' and 'straight girls behaviour'
just 2 regular ol' GAL PALS being BESTIES amirite??? ;) Lol Seriously, two women practically have to make-out to be seen as a couple. It's ridiculously frustrating to the point where sometimes you just have to laugh like a madwoman to keep from losing your sh*t.
Thanks for your understanding 😭😭😭😭 believe me I'm a lesbian and I asked my friend to not marry and stay with me. I don't know by watching Barbie movie I felt seen or became idiot af.
When I was a kid all my Barbies were gay. The Ken doll I had was internally homophobic (not like I knew that as a child lol) but I made him marry a girl doll just for him to cheat on her with another man doll I was a messed up kid
Epic. My gay dream world was The Sims. I spent hours creating incredibly hot and pumped Sims that were in a lot of gay relationships, complete with cheating and adoptions.
As a kid I self identified as mad scientist and would torture my Barbie's and have them take over the world via bake sales and their smiles, the torture victims were generally my Disney Princess dolls
Two girl best friends who lived in an isolated cottage in the middle of a beautiful forest, singing duets about wanting to be each with each other forever, who fly away from the copy paste male "love interests" by rainbow to save the greek mythology-inspired theatre girl squad *wearing pink orange and purple pink dresses respectively* . Yes, the straightest thing ever.
As an Aro person. I always desired a friendship like in barbie. Yk? Being dedicated to one another without romance shit. Living together, laughing together, loving together..but in a platonic way. My Aro ass is jealous
I blame Barbie in the Diamond castle as my source of intense desire for a platonic life partner. As a child I used to hate my best friend's boyfriends. I could never really place why until I reached high school and learned of my aro ace identity. Í didn't want her to leave me alone while she just became just like everyone else in the oversaturated world of romance. I thought I was her soul mate, while in reality I was just a friend. Important enough to keep around but not important enough to share a life together. I even mischaracterized this as romantic interest at some point since we are meant to believe that deep love is only meant for romance. Platonic relationships sadly don't receive the recognition it deserves, while romantic and sexual relationships are put on a pedestal.
@@ps1hagrid786 literally described amatonormativity, look into it you'll like it, I learned about it while researching myself because of being ace and afraid of losing my friendships because society dictating that romantic/sexual relationships are more important, necessary nd should be put more work on than friendships (which is demonstrated in the biggest research made on happiness is incorrect). Actually made my final university project on this ^^
I think the gayest Barbie movie is Barbie and the Dimond castle, I mean there were two twins Barbie and her “friend” could have got with but there’s no evidences that they did
in my country, mermaid is translated to "sirena"- which is also a slur for a flamboyant gay person. so like, the bit about barbie dolphin magic having gay mermaids just reminded me of that lol
Something I always appreciated about princess and the pauper as a kid was that Erika, a commoner, initially turns down a marriage proposal from a king because her dream wasn't marriage, her dream was to travel the world singing for audiences. She only marries the king after she gets that chance to fulfill her actual original dream. A lot of stories about girls will often have the character abandon their initial goal when they experience romance while Erika's love interest chooses to wait for her while she accomplishes her goals she had before he came into the picture.
guess that means Barbie/Annaliese also waited, not just for the marriage with the dude, but waited for Erika which supports the theory of their 4 person polygamous marriage.
I also really appreciated the role reversal of princess and Cindefella! She saved herself and her kingdom even tho she was a "damsel in distress". They had a relationship on trust and respect that really drew my younger self in. Both guys supported their dreams! It's beautiful!
Wolfie the barking cat is trans-coded, hear me out: a) his personality trait is living like a dog in a cat's body, b) he gets an entire song about 'changing his point of view' to accept himself when he tries to force himself to meow to pass for his love interest, and c) (a meta wink from the writers) calico cats are almost exclusively female IRL yet he is male.
Not enough people are talking about our trans icon wolfie Honestly though, I just fold in half at how much I related to him and how much his song hit me in the gut as a kid- I literally cannot hear his song without crying (athough T has made it harder to cry so this might not be true anymore lol)
Well, as a child, I always thought it was just logical to make 2 Barbies kiss if you didn't own a Ken. Like, guys are great too, but why would you wait on him if there's a girl in front of you? See where's this going? I'm pretty Bi hahaha
@@olg06 hahaha, great for you, i always loved the fairytales that included marriage. Up to this day, even when marriage doesn't look as dreamy because of the huge responsability it carries.
You know what’s funny? The “friends song” from Diamond Castle is even gayer in Russian. For example: “two voices, one song” was translated “two hearts into one” And I’m not even joking, you can check it out)
I watched the movies in russian as a child, then found the songs in english on RUclips, but when i read your comment i remembered the original lyrics and omg 😂
The plot line on Diamond Castle with Alexa getting brainwashed and Liana saves her with love is something that has been used in straight romance stories plenty of times with the whole true loves kiss breaks the curse. You can’t even say that ppl are reaching at something that doesn’t have romance bc that exact plot has been used for romance stories so much
Yeah and they aren't even their boyfriends, they're just some twins that came along with them (and unsuccessfully tried to flirt with them with a silly song)
I also love how the dresses of "the princess and the pauper" are literally the trans flag, and the cat barks, which can also be seen as a trans metaphor.
I definitely identified with the cat when I was little. at the time I was like "why am I identifying with a cat" but over a decade later it makes perfect sense.
“Girl like you” always set something off inside my chest when I was little, similar to how “Reflection” did as well. Viewing it through rainbow lens and outside of a closet makes it take a WHOLE other meaning~
Those 2 songs specifically and those 2 movies in general, gave me chills when I was a child. I never would've believed in my wildest dreams that it all boils down to my sexuality. And to have that experience be more universal than I realised is mind blowing.
"how could anything Barbie related (besides ken) be homoerotic?" THIS FUCKING BROKE ME LMAOOOO As a kid, a very gay kid, i used to take my sister's ken doll and pretend he was dating my Max Steel, so y'know
same! barbie movies as an ace kid were very ideal for me because the romance was very subtle(the hetero romance lol). I much prefered the exploration of female friendship and adventure. In disney movies it is the total opposite. The end goal is typically the marriage plot. I did love disney movies but I'd always fast forward through love songs and kiss scenes haha. I am glad disney is starting to realize that "hey maybe that is harmful to push on kids" so now we're getting more charcter driven stories. they're not perfect and neither is barbie of course but I think it is interesting and important to explore.
@@rachelkiesser5406 Yeah... Disney hasn't stopped showing hetro kissing because it's harmful to kids. You speak as if they care or that they've employed creatives who do. Absolutely not. They've stopped showing it as a false-progressive whistleblow to feminists. It's there way of pointing to characters and saying "Look! This strong, female character doesn't need a man in her story! Are we doing it right?!" I wish I could word it without sounding like a GOP Conservative but that's the best way I can describe it. They do nothing to actually be progressive, it's performative feminism that is deeply steeped in homophobia, anti/apathetic-LGBTQ sentiment. Please do not believe that Disney cares about "the children" in the slightest. They pander to progressive groups in a way that let's them keep the money from conservative (racists/homophobes) customers.
@@grandempressvicky6387 I'm certainly not under the impression that Disney is an any way a progressive company. However, I also do not want to ignore the many progressive animators, directors, staff members, and lower level employees who fight daily for representation at Disney. For a long time they have been fighting back and they have spoken up about this many times. So while the company/corporation as a whole is certainly not something I will ever praise I want to give credit to the individuals who do care because they are fighting for what matters. As with all political situations there is nuance. This is of course a comment section so I cannot perfectly articulate all my opinions but I just want to recognize the value in these people's work even if I strongly disagree with company they work for. I don't think they alone can fix these issues but to ignore it feels wrong. Fundamentally Disney needs to change from the inside. I hope we all continue to support those who are working to do that. As it is such a huge company that unfortunately impacts many aspects of the global economy it is rather significant. This is the realities of our capitalist hell. I hope I communicated what I wanted to say clearly. I don't want to argue. I think this is a nuanced argument with multiple sides. I do understand why anyone would disagree.
admittedly, I watched barbie when I was already a teenager, but the way the male romance interests usually have less than 5 minutes of screen time & their entire role is just to say a few goofy lines & then leave, i'd think "god, i wish that was me..."
Me and my best friend who grew up with these and put a queer analysis on them before we both knew we weren't straight ourselves seeing this title: ✨"Finally."✨
You should watch the new barbie movie “big city big dreams”, they basically sing love songs at each other and there are so many romantic tropes that get used on them!
I wonder if this messaging was part of why I didn't realize I was queer until I was 12/13, despite clearly being attracted to girls in my earliest memories as a child - because these films teach the viewer that this kind of relationship is only platonic, and will always be only platonic. "Best friends now, tomorrow, always". and so on. The princess from Swan Lake was my first crush and I obsessed over her! But I was told that was friendship. I wonder if other queer people feel similarly, or if there's any research into it. This video was so well done and absolutely made me think!
I feel the same way! and i still think it’s hard to distinguish between platonic and romantic relationships with girls. While close female relationships always have been portrayed as platonic, i feel like it’s the opposite with close male relationships. Women can literally kiss each other and still be seen as platonic while men can barely be vulnerable with each other without the fear of looking "gay". In the same way men and women that are just friends always has an assumed romantic connection..
as a child I was told something similar "women can think other women are pretty and it's normal" so growing up I would find woman characters attractive and I would always tell myself that it was normal bc women can find other woman attractive and it wasn't until I was 15 that I realized it wasn't just me thinking these women were pretty but that I was attracted to them.
@@scrumptiouscrab Same, I never got crushes on my female friends but I was definitelly taught that finding other women pretty and attractive was a normal platonic thing. My mom still likes to call certain actresses super attractive, the same way she does male actors, while failing to realize that is kind of queer. I had my first crush at 14, at some stranger girl I had never met but I could not stop looking at her and I remember thinking I wanted to make art of her. Then I proceeded to contemplate approaching her but got upset when I saw her walking with a boy and gave up. Then I gaslighted myself into thinking I just wanted to look like her and dismissed any same-sex attraction as just me overthinking platonic feelings, until a girl literally made out with me at 17, making me realize I was, in fact, bisexual.
I completely agree!! I’d have sleepovers are friends houses and want to be Barbies with them, want to have that close and almost romantic relationships like she did. I’d play her with my dolls and they’d kiss and do whatever but it was all platonic bc that’s what I thought platonic was
@@alicetheneko7529 best of luck for yours. I remember how nervous I was before mine, but everything was fine in the end. I'm sure your initiation ritual is gonna go great too.
@@alicetheneko7529 I'm sure it'll go great. I was nervous when I did it with my girlfriend a few years ago, but it turned out to be wonderful! Good luck!
I've said it once and i'll say it again: barbie and the princess school (or whatever it's called) is the gayest one by far. The plot is amazing, it depicts a forbidden romance between a young girl who comes from a unwealthy background and a brainwashed royal. The "poor" girl is projected into this noble milieu and isn't accepted because of her background but still fights and works for her cause and what she belives is right. The brainwashed royal will slowly detach from the ideas her mother planted in her, works her internalized homophobia out and helps her forbidden lover through her quest to take down the crown. Oh and it takes place in an all Girls school where everyone is basically a different flavor of gay. Edit : they're cousins so I don't ship them anymore
I was legit looking for a comment about Princess Charm School lol Even when I watched that when I was younger I knew something was up, and then I revisited it later and came to the same realization lol
@@lilabrownexo4691 I can't remember if they're cousins but they are related. That's the only reason the snobby royal girl is in the running for the throne. She's the only living relative to the king and queen that died (other than Barbie, but nobody knows shes alive til the end). Iirc, snobby royal girl's mom (villain mom) is the wife of the dead king's brother. Which is why villain mom can't be queen, she's not blood related to royalty, but her daughter is. So villain mom arranged to get the king, queen, and princess killed and make snobby royal girl queen and that way villain mom got to stay in power.
@@alicetheneko7529 don't bother with trying to make ravetastic see your point, in another thread they called a gay trans man "biologically straight" so they aren't arguing in good faith when it comes to queer issues
The first time I kissed a girl was after I (9 years old) finished playing with my friend's Barbies, and after we made the Barbies kiss we kissed in real life. It was the sweetest feeling, the softest kiss you can imagine. All the kisses after that were with boys and they never kissed me as softly as she did. Anyway I'm bi--
@@telepathicmagicshop you were 9. So was your friend I hope. Not wanna burst your bubble but it's not surprising that every kiss after this wasn't "as soft" lmao
My college just did a production of this through a queer lens! I played Julia, the nonbinary genderbent version of Julian, and Erika was made a trans woman played by an actor who was also a trans woman! We also had Liana and Alexa from Diamond Castle as our lesbian narrators haha. It was so fun
The song about the cat that barks like a dog always gave me celebrating LGBTQ vibes whether it was trans, non binary or some form of sexual identity she sang about not hiding who he is and that she loves him no matter what “ You're no status quo Calico. So why keep trying to be? 'Cause you're more than that. You're a doggish cat.” “If you bark, celebrate it, Make your mark, serenade it Noah's ark should've had a cat like you And if what you are is a strange you Doesn't mean you should change you Only means you should change your point of view” and the whole song is just talking about celebrating your differences instead trying to be who society tells what is normal to be
True! The cat shouldn't change itself! The cat wants to bark and it barks! Because not only dogs can bark! If you bark it doesn't mean you are a dog. And if you are a cat it doesn't mean you should only mewl.
@@emmab5547 came to the comment section to find someone mentioning this because the only reason I clicked that video was laying awake just the other night thinking "bro the cat in that one barbie film you loved as a child was a trans metaphor"
I found out today. Never put much thought into barbie before (although did play with it for a short period as a kid), but I guess a lot of casual things have an interesting backstory once you look into it
I'm not so sure about that characterization. When I first heard Lilli described that way, I did some Googling to see what that meant. What I learned was that she was based on a comic strip character who was sort of a blonde bimbo gold-digger, but also had high standards in men and spent a lot of time telling them off. The doll was originally sold as a gag gift for men, but was then marketed as a present for men to give their girlfriends and was also played with by children. I think the "sex doll" idea was popularized by author Ariel Levy.
43:10 okay but in mainstream media hyperfeminine characters are usually potrayed as one-dimensional side characters most likely the protagonist's love interest. this is definitely not the case in the barbie movies. So we could say that barbie actually rewrites the meaning of femininity as decision making, power, assertiveness and self awareness. You don't have to posses masculine characteristics to have traditional masculine traits such as will, thought or self control. The barbie movies actually reclaim those traits to be purely feminine.
The implication that "will, thought and self control" are seen as masculine traits is genuinely horrifying, not only because it makes feminity seem inhuman and thoughtless but also because it sees "thought and self control" as a given to males
yeah i agree here. looking at barbie alone its not great obviously but i think barbie does well for the place it has in the larger media scene today. there are plenty of women who are strong characters with masculine traits but not as many who are strong characters with feminine traits. meanwhile barbie is as feminine as they come but the narrative is always that she/the female protagonist is very capable and can do anything she needs to to help people or save the world and she never has to compromise on her femininity. that's powerful when young girls everywhere are being told that being feminine means they're weak.
@@catherinethegreatsgroceryasmr yes! The breed of cat that Wolfie is is almost impossible to be biological male, yet he's presented as a male cat who acts like a dog, which is a pretty clear (but most likely unintentional) metaphor for being trans! PLUS male Calico cats (which he is, he's a Calico) are always infertile because of their genetics, but at the end of the movie he has a bunch of kittens with Serafina, which means Serafina has to be trans as well otherwise they wouldn't be able to have kids!
@@lukewarmlava2083 Just so you know, calico toms aren't always infertile! It's very rare but they can have kits! Of course, it's much more likely that he wouldn't be, but it is possible.
LMAO yeah I feel a lot of bi vibes on Barbie The guy on the video said "erotic", I do not thing "erotic" is the right term, is queer but no exactly erotic/sexual
Although as a cis queer woman i wouldn’t know the gender experience of a cis het woman, i argue that barbie wasn’t just a space for queer women to move away from the male gaze, but straight women too. I mean, why would straight women relate to a male perspective on women’s sexuality? By definition they wouldn’t be attracted to/looking at/perceiving women the way a cis het man would
As a straight woman I can say you are right. As a tomboyish kid/teen I hated being sexualized and romanticized all the time. Yeah romance is cool, but why every time it has to end like this, like it's the best thing you could want in your life? I always loved Barbie movies because to me it was just girls living adventures and doing what they wanted. Therefore, I must say I'm not very happy about this queer reading of the films, mainly because of this. At the same time, I'm happy to see in the comments how this take about the films helped many queer kids, so... 😊
@@lankylowshot2246 well, a reading isn’t meant to be the only meaning for the movie, it’s just one way you could read it. I definitely liked barbie movies for alot of the same reasons as you did, ‘cause that’s how i interpreted it as a kid, but a queer interpretation also makes sense to me
@@paranoidlizard6338 yeah I know, it's just a little bit hard for me personally, because in the past I had a really hard time befriending boys without being romanticized and had to deal with loneliness and rejection because of that. But as I said, I can see that's just my personal experience, in the end I am happy to see people draw something positive out of this kind of interpretation!
My barbies always dated each other. I absolutely never wanted to acquire a Ken doll. How in the world did it take me until I was 19 to figure out I was queer?!
The Diamond Lesbia- I mean, Castle... They're literally just Catradora lol. The green eyes and mind control? Dangling off a cliff and trying not to kill the woman you lovehategay? HOLDING HER LIKE THAT?? Anyways you missed THE GAYEST one: a recent movie where Barbie's college roomie is also named Barbie. It canonizes "the black barbie" in the cinematic universe, saying that they are both equally valid as Barbie. Also they're very explicitly gay. Like, they are in an actual relationship. Also a few years ago, Barbie came out as bi on the barbiestyle instagram account, with a post that says "museum date with my gf" I totally have things to do with my life and I'm normal!
There is nothing gay about the movie "Barbie and the Castel of diamond",people comments about the movie shows sexism and how people sexualize women,if a woman doesn't need a man and has a close relationship with a woman is a lesbian right now for some people.
When I was younger and friends made me play Barbies, mine would "accidentally" pop Ken's head off at the altar, steal his clothes, and run off to the "mountains" (couch) together in their camper van with a bunch of cats and some random orphaned children they found somewhere along the way. I think Barbie knew something long before I did...
I only recently realized that as a child, many of my Barbies were in lesbian relationships because I had many women and only two Kens. It was completely logical and natural for me to create pairs of women, although only a few months ago I thought about the fact that not every girl did that. I have good parents who gave me a sex education very early, so all my life I wondered how my classmates could be ashamed to see kisses in the movies, when I spend a lot of time arranging hot nights for Barbie and Ken. I always joked about being bisexual, but after breaking away from a long-term abusive relationship when it was time to move on, I tried to imagine the person I wanted to have around me, and finally took it seriously that this person could be a woman. I am very glad that I stopped joking, although my parents never embarrassed me for such jokes, I still felt some pressure from the world that I should not be like that. As soon as I told my parents that I was bisexual seriously, I was supported, and my mother only advised me to change the Tinder settings so as not to miss my chance among women. As for Barbie movies ... I thought that when I grow up I realize that they are stupid and "for children", but it turned out the opposite, each review gives me something new, and I want to show these movies to my children, if I have them. Unlike Disney cartoons, which were boxed stories, stories about a princess who wants more, and a prince whose names are not even mentioned in half of the movies, Barbie cartoons did not fit in the box. Through them, I fell in love with ballet, got visual orgasms from brilliant transformations, and learned wonderful songs, but I also got a bunch of protagonists who save themselves and the world, stories in which love is not at the center of the plot, evidence that being a woman is difficult, but we should fight for justice, and the representation of many kinds of relationships, from love and friendship, to relationships between brothers, sisters, parents and children, and more. It's more than Disney with a standard love, a standard antagonist who interferes with love, and a standard kiss that can fix everything. Sorry for rambling so long, it was just a very emotional video for me💖💞
Nice, Barbie made me consider studying fashion design for a long time (honestly, it's still on the table because I WANT TO MAKE MYSELF CUTE DRESSES AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME EXCEPT MY WALLET). See, I'm all up for sex ed, I absorbed knowledge without discrimination as a kid, I did make my barbies kiss sometimes, and I have known I wouldn't mind the gender of my partner since I was like 11, but I still feel akward with kissing in movies at times, and I'm almost 19 at this point 😂
@@naolucillerandom5280 I think there is a difference for me, not to look at kisses, because you don't like it visually, I also have it sometimes, it depends on the situation. And don't look at kisses because you are such an intimidated person, and for you this topic is taboo, a sin or some other nonsense. Of course, everyone can look at whatever they want, I've just met people who are disgusted with kisses, as if if they see them, they will somehow become worse people. I don't even know what they were told about trying kisses.
i feel this! i would get more “turned on” (as much as a 5-10 year old could) when i had the girl barbie’s together vs barbie w ken. but little me thought it’s just bc i too had more girl barbies. but like no, this is only a thing gay people do 😂🌈
I know it's off topic but I study geosciences and I recently rewatched The Princess and The Pauper. I was surprised to find Barbie (Anneliese) doing actual valid geological research in this film :D
"the mature figure made some parents uncomfortable. I mean, the audacity to have breasts?!" This was literally my grandfather. In the 60's/70's my mom wasnt allowed to play with these dolls and only with more appropriate-looking "knock off's".... My grandfather is gay though so I dont know where that all fits into this.....
This is the first time I've had a man make a whole commentary on not just Barbie, a inherently femme topic, but also on femme queerness, the mold of society and queer gals all around cutting their barbie's hair off while having to fit the "perfect girl" role out in public or around family. You did such a good job, dang. Like sometimes there is a element of "I kinda don't know" when guys make very good points on literally anything related to girls let alone queer ones, so thank you for getting it and making a whole history lesson!
I'm autistic and obsessed with Barbie since I was a kid (it's my special interest). So I have to say: I love this so much! All the nuances, the doll's story plus sensible critiques without ignoring the good things... And yeah Barbie is queer AF everyone who watches the Diamond Castle knows it. Anyways, just another Alex coming here to say: good job, Alex! Thank you for this masterpiece!
I have been trying to convince my friends the song 'The Cat's Meow' is literally about being transgender and comfortable in your own body. Thank you for this. It's literally a barking cat ffs.
As an enby who was obsessed with the princess and the pauper as a smol and had no idea why i felt like crying every time that song played-- ☝️☝️☝️ Y E A H
okay but as a lesbian, your description of sapphic longing in the dolphin movie section actually articulated a part of me I've never heard described in such a validating way. looove that and so excited for LIVE ACTION!!!!!!
i personally think that liberal individualism is so inherent in united states' culture that it always appear in some way through cultural materials. i started to think about it after seeing imigrant stories (specially latin or asian ones) being told and there's always this conflict between a community-centered culture and an individual-centered one
fun fact: in psychology, "community-centered" and "individual-centered" culture come up so often that they actually have their own dedicated terms: collectivism and individualism. Cultures like that of China and Portugal are said to be collectivist whereas American culture is individualist. The terms are used to describe how behavior can differ between cultures, for example, a collectivist person may be more sympathetic towards someone else making a mistake that negatively impacts them, whereas an individualist is typically quicker to blame the individual who made the mistake. "They probably just couldn't see around the corner" vs "That asshole wasn't looking and almost rammed into me"
My favorite part of playing with Barbie as a child was to sew clothes for her. This is how at young age I knew I want to become a designer. And I did, just a bit different kind of a designer (3D), But still requires for me to create clothes in digital format.
I only had Barbie’s as a kid, no kens so I always made my dolls marry each other and live in a dollhouse together and told my mom that they were just ‘roommates’
I had a friend who had Kens... She still made her barbie's kiss and get married. All my barbie's were powerful single baddies who travelled the world and needed no man while living together in a huge mansion, or maybe being neighbors but owning the whole street
i too, was born in the 2000s. and i remember when i was like 8, the only barbie movie i knew was princess and the pauper, and i watched it on my CD, every single day. very influential in my life
that one was my ffaaavvorite barbie movie (this video helped me learn why). i had the actual barbies of princess and the pauper (and their pets) and u could press a button on their back to sing together in harmony. and then i’d make them have seggs lmao
As a lesbian, I can say for certain the "learning to swim like a mermaid" (24:52-25:05) montage is 100% a lesbian mating ritual. Welcome to the club barbie
Barbie Rock'n'Royal's song What If I Shine is literally a coming out song! "I spend too much time thinking about who I'm supposed to be, I play by everybody's rules that don't seem right to me, I'm cool and polite, on the outside, When I get a chance, I run and I hide, If your eyes are closed, it's hard to seeWhat if I back down now, 'Cause I'm afraid of what might happen, What if they turn away, When I show them who I truly am, What if I lose my breath, When I throw those big doors open, Or tonight, just tonight, What if I shine?" I meeeeaaaaannnnn... Amazing video though!
I saw Erica's cat as a trans metaphor. Biologically a cat but acts more like a dog. He tries to fit in as a cat by attempting to meow but Erica sees how uncomfortable is trying to be something he isn't and reassures him that he doesn't have to be 100% a cat. I'm not trans so if I'm misreading it, someone please tell me.
the line "marry whom i choose" never really stuck to me now, like they could've made the line "marry the man i love"-- i'm aware that has too many syllables, but that's not the point-- they COULD'VE made it less gay with enough work but they didn't. 😏
Since I've grown up with the german dub of this movie this was such a missed opportunity!! Because in German Anneliese still sings "Such mir meinen Mann selbst aus/choosing my own husband"
I had to be honest. I watch many of the Barbie movies because I loved the touch of fancy dresses and castles. But something that I really felt attracted to was the cute guys. For a gay boy who grow up in a cult, those movies were the closest I could imagine myself living in an alternative world. I wished many times that I could have my own Prince 🤴. Barbie movies still one of my favorites.
I was one of the animation editors on Dophin Magic when it was being produced and the whole time was like "is it just me or is Barbie in love with this queer-coded mermaid?". Glad to see my thoughts validated!
when i was young i was OBSESSED with the diamond castle film. Mainly cuz there were barely any male characters appearance i think neither many romantic scenes.
i was born in 1998 and was obsessed with barbie and bratz as a child, including the movies, dolls, and video games… now i’m a 23 year old overcoming internalized homophobia, accepting that i am queer, and working on a career in costuming for film… the absolute pipeline this video make me discover LMAO
i remember when i was younger i used to make one of my barbie dolls “become a ken”, as in he’d talk to his friends and say he felt like a boy and was treated like one ever since then. i wonder why my parents never suspected i was trans when it was that obvious
@@eggoyt_smixwire Dude I keep seeing stories like this about how Barbie connects to members of the LGBT community and their experiences, even perhaps contributing to their identities in childhood and theyre all so sweet and beautiful.. All I got for yall is I think Preminger appeared on screen and child me was instantly filled with drama, bisexuality, and malice.
My favorite colors have always happened to be the bisexual colors throughout my childhood. I literally had purple blue and pink stripes across my wall. It didn’t mean anything.
I miss the time when we would not label colours by sexuality,I'm sick of people assuming that if someone likes or uses things with colours the person is part of LGBT+community.
😮LOVE the conclusion, "Is Barbie gay? You decide." I learned to love Barbie through my daughter and let me say this Barbie has many names and many roles. She's queen, warrior, robot... Great analysis! Also the Dolphin Magic movie is so gay!! I wonder how come my husband doesn't see it, I guess you see what you want to see and that this is a strenght of Barbie's.
This showed up exactly as I was looking for something to procrastinate writing my english essay analysizing something with queer marxist theory. I don,t know whether to be impressed or afraid
ok but what else were they supposed to say when the word for (female) friend and girlfriend is the same in german? people could still interprete it as just friends
I remember when I was a kid and cut one of my Barbie dolls hair and dressed them in masculine doll clothes and essentially made them over to be a ken- And now I'm trans
When I was a kid me and my best friend would say stuff like "I'm never gonna marry a man, I'd rather live with you forever" and sing barbie songs about "friendship". Now I'm 21 and I think I might not be completely heterosexual.
my friend once told me girls could marry girls while we were playing with barbies, and I took that concept and ran with it. When I was in the 2nd grade, I was mad at my friend and I literally wrote in my diary "I hope she marries a man"
As a bisexual minor, marrying a man is a 50/50 coin flip. Good on you for taking the bad 50 because on god that is going to be hell
I'M CRYING THIS IS FUNNY
Said that to my cousin when playing w barbies as well (already had a gay family member so it wasn’t that far of a leap)
Every time I think about it I hoped to have inspired shit just like this
"I hope she marries a man"- GOLD💀
I can't belive you would wish heterosexuality on someone you called a friend 😞🤭😟
“-and was available in the two genders: blonde and brunette” amazing writing in the first two minutes, I’m in for a treat.
It made me wonder a little why he refers to them as "gender" and not color.
@@zakosist that's the joke
they had me at "before gay people were invented"
@@zakosist the joke might have went over your head
"female gaze.. and the female gays" 🥶🥶
When I was a kid I had lots of Barbie's and only 1 ken....
So obviously he would officiate my queer Barbie weddings which would obviously be crashed by Barbie's secret lover who would then confess her undying love for Barbie and convince her to leave her fiancé at the alter and run away with her.... But not before running her ex-fiancé with one of my brother's hot wheels
I was a very dramatic child
ngl I would watch that
HAHHAHAHA SAMEEE
Lmao, I want to see this happen in a movie.
I think we share the same braincell.
i mean i used to hang my lego minifigures so i guess kids with barbies truly were better off
"The image of a white, thin, blonde fashionista with a closeted boyfriend." GOLD
yes
They were each other’s beards lmao.
😂😂
Calling Ken gay us not funny.
Barbie without the bi is just bare.
holy shit youre so right
Wow that's... that's clever.
You are soo Smart!!!
PLEASE HAHAHAHAH I love this!!!
Holy guacamole....
My dad: "What are you watching?"
Me: "Oh nothing, just a 48-minute video presentation/documentary discussing whether Barbie is gay or not"
OMG YES
"Are ya winnin'?'
@@thesaltybeard1793y e s
we're a mood
me when my teachers ask me how i spend my summer holidays
Honestly the fact that when my babysitter told me to describe my ideal wedding I was like "I wanna marry my best friend and we will have dresses just like Annelise and Erica" tell you a lot about how I interpreted these movies as a child
AW THATS SO CUTE
#SapphicGoals
yeah
yeah yeah
PERIDOT PFP
Mariposa and the fairy princess is basically a gay romance. We already knew Mariposa had a thing for the ever toxic Henna, but now she has a healthy relationship with Princess Catania
*Disclaimer, because of the replies on my comment, I edited it; so just to be clear, this comment is not meant to be offensive. It's just a personal reaction.*
I do not see it as logical consequence that Mariposa and Catania "basically a gay romance", or that she has "a thing for" Henna. Yes, it is a healthy relationsip, and it can be interpreted perhaps as romance. But I see it as mere friendship, and I really love also Mariposa and Carlos together, especially because she is dancing with Carlos in the ending.
You may interpret it, as you like...but just to mention:
(Satirical comment starts..)
"Girl smiles at a girl and they befriend --> gay!
Girl yells at a girl and they fight --> gay!
Is there any chance not being gay nowadays?"
(Snarky comment ending)
What I mean is that we also should not feel to save in any conclusions. That's the same also with straight romances. I'm not an active shipper, but I feel like that either way, whether gay or straight, real or fictive characters should not pushed into a relationship as "fact"., What is done as fan shipping, is another question; and I understand that there is chemistry as argument. But I just feel that there is a difference how we can jump to conclusions. Alexa and Liana in the Diamond Castle are more likely to be seen as representation than Erika and Anneliese, for example.
@@felicity1877 this channel is LITERALLY called AreTheyGay what were you expecting the video and comments to be about lmao
@@jimbomyboy9679 I expect the possibility of discussion, and why couldn't the answer be "no - because...."
Very honestly, it's fine to discuss things if there is some substance behind it. It's not that I'm against it.
I just feel it's losing any seriousness behind it, and is going in wild comedy-theories...
@@felicity1877 You may interpret it, as you like...but just to mention....
Girl & guy look at each other for more than 2 seconds --> in love!
Guy pesters girl even after she has told him repeatedly she is not interested--> in love!
Is there any chance not being straight nowadays?
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Please look at it from both perspectives. And I would even argue that straight people are usually much 'worse' in this aspect. A lot of writers are just lazy when it comes to straight romance so the romance between the characters end up unfulfilling or just plain bad because the characters have 0 chemistry. They're just a boy and a girl who happen to be in the same room, and BOOM they're in love. Also the weird male fantasy of the unfunny, painfully plain 'average dude' getting together with the most interesting and most attractive woman ever by constantly pressuring her into being in a relationship. Also the "he just bullies you because he likes you and boys cant control their feelings" :/ .
This is really sad because not only does it portray a really weird and unhealthy ideal of romance, but also because straight people don't really get any good relationships in media. The only one that I can come up with, on the top of my head, that was really cute is the relationship between Rayla and Callum from The Dragon Prince. But usually its just badly written or plain abusive.
And besides, it is fairly undeniable that these movies discussed here have a very queer feeling to them. If you just change Alexa in The Diamond Castle to a guy there would be obvious romantic implications of two people living together, being romantically uninterested in other people, saying they want to stay with each other forever, and then rejecting a life of luxury to go back to their humble home together.
Even if they never kissed or explicitly said anything about their relationship, you would automatically assume they were a couple just from the fact that they are a boy and a girl doing these things together. So why are people bending over backwards to proclaim that sapphic relationships or sapphic undertones are just 💞besties™💞?
@@felicity1877 Barbie litterally exists so that people (mainly little girls) can see themselves in her. And a lot of those little girls could be queer and see Barbies relationships with her friends who are girls through a rainbow lens. So it makes sense for Barbie to be bi so that straight little girls and queer little girls can see themselves in some part of her
gosh..... can't blame the lesbians and bisexuals for being confused for years if this is how we portray 'female friendships' and 'straight girls behaviour'
just 2 regular ol' GAL PALS being BESTIES amirite??? ;)
Lol
Seriously, two women practically have to make-out to be seen as a couple. It's ridiculously frustrating to the point where sometimes you just have to laugh like a madwoman to keep from losing your sh*t.
Same mood with historians looking at people who lived together and wrote each other love letters etc. "Hmm, they must have been best friends!"
straight female friendships can and should be portrayed like this too. the fault of confusion is the limited gay media portrayals.
my best friend and i used to have that barbie diamond castle song as our theme song. we both ended up coming out as bisexual.
Thanks for your understanding 😭😭😭😭 believe me I'm a lesbian and I asked my friend to not marry and stay with me. I don't know by watching Barbie movie I felt seen or became idiot af.
And now Ruth's husband is embarrassed to high heaven knowing his wife's idea made millions of dollars and tv shows and movies :D
And her idea would become the flagship toy for the company
@@oliviaspring9690 LOL YEP
good
Barbie is the only reason I know about Mattel
@@oliviaspring9690 It wasn't Matchbox?
As a lesbian, I can confirm that Isla's and Barbie's mermaid swimming lesson, is an initation ritual
Shh don’t give away our secret 😶
I’m landlocked so I had to do mine at a public pool :(
Great Goddess! Don't give away our mating ritual secrets.
As a sister of the sea, same
So true
when i was a little girl, barbie taught me i could become anything. so i became a gay man. thank u queen barbie
Hold up
Thats a big motherfucking mood
pog o7
Ken was my I wanna be 💀
thsi is so me
When I was a kid all my Barbies were gay. The Ken doll I had was internally homophobic (not like I knew that as a child lol) but I made him marry a girl doll just for him to cheat on her with another man doll I was a messed up kid
Epic. My gay dream world was The Sims. I spent hours creating incredibly hot and pumped Sims that were in a lot of gay relationships, complete with cheating and adoptions.
As a kid I self identified as mad scientist and would torture my Barbie's and have them take over the world via bake sales and their smiles, the torture victims were generally my Disney Princess dolls
Oh man. All my Barbies were married together, and my Ken would always end up with my brother's Max Steel. They were a perfect pair
I used to do the same, but instead of Ken cheating it was Barbie. Most of my stories were like telenovelas, really dramatic
I'd say you just worked into your play what you saw happening in the real world.
Two girl best friends who lived in an isolated cottage in the middle of a beautiful forest, singing duets about wanting to be each with each other forever, who fly away from the copy paste male "love interests" by rainbow to save the greek mythology-inspired theatre girl squad *wearing pink orange and purple pink dresses respectively* .
Yes, the straightest thing ever.
Hmmm sounds like something sappho would write 🤔
Sounds like every lesbian dream ever-
It was my favourite barbie film, you can tell how I turned out
Even the title card is bisexual lol
@Rach ngl I'm demisexual panromantic
As an Aro person. I always desired a friendship like in barbie. Yk? Being dedicated to one another without romance shit. Living together, laughing together, loving together..but in a platonic way. My Aro ass is jealous
I blame Barbie in the Diamond castle as my source of intense desire for a platonic life partner. As a child I used to hate my best friend's boyfriends. I could never really place why until I reached high school and learned of my aro ace identity. Í didn't want her to leave me alone while she just became just like everyone else in the oversaturated world of romance. I thought I was her soul mate, while in reality I was just a friend. Important enough to keep around but not important enough to share a life together. I even mischaracterized this as romantic interest at some point since we are meant to believe that deep love is only meant for romance. Platonic relationships sadly don't receive the recognition it deserves, while romantic and sexual relationships are put on a pedestal.
barbie movies are the gateway drug to the world of queerplatonic relationships
I didn’t have that desire before but now that you’ve brought it up, I now am desperate for it.
me but with lalaloopsys
@@ps1hagrid786 literally described amatonormativity, look into it you'll like it, I learned about it while researching myself because of being ace and afraid of losing my friendships because society dictating that romantic/sexual relationships are more important, necessary nd should be put more work on than friendships (which is demonstrated in the biggest research made on happiness is incorrect). Actually made my final university project on this ^^
I think the gayest Barbie movie is Barbie and the Dimond castle, I mean there were two twins Barbie and her “friend” could have got with but there’s no evidences that they did
They went off on a RAINBOW, for God's sake!!!
And their outfits are the bisexual flag and the lesbian flag
and have you HEARD “two voices one song” if that doesn’t radiate homosexuality idk what does
@@passedthevibe-check141 gays can now fast travel
@@crovvertti yess
In the name of all queer girls who were obsessed with Barbie as a child, I thank you for this.
as a queer girl who was obsessed with Barbie as a child, I second this.
as a queer afab enby who was obsessed with barbie as a child, i third this.
Agree I was obsessed and I watched it after school,
I fourth this!
Four approvals, motion granted.
Representing the glitter butch cisqueer girl forum, I confirm the record of this motion. [Gavel sound]
As a queer girl who was obsessed with Barbie as a child, I fifth this
in my country, mermaid is translated to "sirena"- which is also a slur for a flamboyant gay person. so like, the bit about barbie dolphin magic having gay mermaids just reminded me of that lol
Are you by any chance Serbian?
Because Serbian also uses sirena
Mała syrenka ❤
or pinoy
It's also sirena in my native language, but it has no other meaning. That's so interesting tho😮
Something I always appreciated about princess and the pauper as a kid was that Erika, a commoner, initially turns down a marriage proposal from a king because her dream wasn't marriage, her dream was to travel the world singing for audiences. She only marries the king after she gets that chance to fulfill her actual original dream. A lot of stories about girls will often have the character abandon their initial goal when they experience romance while Erika's love interest chooses to wait for her while she accomplishes her goals she had before he came into the picture.
guess that means Barbie/Annaliese also waited, not just for the marriage with the dude, but waited for Erika which supports the theory of their 4 person polygamous marriage.
🤩
I also really appreciated the role reversal of princess and Cindefella! She saved herself and her kingdom even tho she was a "damsel in distress". They had a relationship on trust and respect that really drew my younger self in. Both guys supported their dreams! It's beautiful!
Iconic nepotism beard marriage.
Wolfie the barking cat is trans-coded, hear me out: a) his personality trait is living like a dog in a cat's body, b) he gets an entire song about 'changing his point of view' to accept himself when he tries to force himself to meow to pass for his love interest, and c) (a meta wink from the writers) calico cats are almost exclusively female IRL yet he is male.
I love him 🥺
Wolfie is my fav trans icon. I always related so much to him and didn't even understand why, and now I do
Not enough people are talking about our trans icon wolfie
Honestly though, I just fold in half at how much I related to him and how much his song hit me in the gut as a kid- I literally cannot hear his song without crying
(athough T has made it harder to cry so this might not be true anymore lol)
@@andrewisdeadinside lmao same, now I know as well
Ohhhh my god, you are a genius. It makes so much sense.
Well, as a child, I always thought it was just logical to make 2 Barbies kiss if you didn't own a Ken. Like, guys are great too, but why would you wait on him if there's a girl in front of you? See where's this going? I'm pretty Bi hahaha
some of my barbies were polyamorous and just spawned children
@@gudao8840Bro I did the same hahaha
I beheaded my brother's ken and my two barbies raised two of my bratz dolls together lmao
When I only had the barbie dolls, marriage didn't even cross my mind.
@@olg06 hahaha, great for you, i always loved the fairytales that included marriage. Up to this day, even when marriage doesn't look as dreamy because of the huge responsability it carries.
“Back in 1959 before gay people were invented”
“The two genders blond and brunette”
Dude stop I’m only 1:20 in and your humor is just to good 🔥
The Pete Davidson line at 30:35 is too good too. It's 3 AM here and I have to sleep and yet I keep rewinding this video. Send help.
Ayo yes-
You know what’s funny? The “friends song” from Diamond Castle is even gayer in Russian. For example: “two voices, one song” was translated “two hearts into one”
And I’m not even joking, you can check it out)
Omg, I need to check this out that's so gay!
Yes, it's true
w ow w
I watched the movies in russian as a child, then found the songs in english on RUclips, but when i read your comment i remembered the original lyrics and omg 😂
In italian it’s “two voices, one heart”🥹
I don't know why, but "I'll call her Isla, because that's her name" made me break down laughing, that was well done somehow
Alexa and Liana's "best friends, today, tomorrow, and forever" is like Stucky's "I'm with you till the end of the line"
😭😭😭 DONT EVEN-
Right. “Best friends” 😉😏
oh god 😭 why did steve leaveee
@@mmm-ei3yi bc it was getting too gay i guess
@@politemenace5781
lmfaoo 😭
The plot line on Diamond Castle with Alexa getting brainwashed and Liana saves her with love is something that has been used in straight romance stories plenty of times with the whole true loves kiss breaks the curse. You can’t even say that ppl are reaching at something that doesn’t have romance bc that exact plot has been used for romance stories so much
Cue Tangled ->
Shhhhh my parents are gonna know why this was one of my favorite “late 2000’s” Barbie movie
Seriously! She-Ra did it in the last season within the last couple years as well
"Sister of the sea" is my new favorite lesbian euphemism 🧜♀
I'm certainly going to steal this one.
@@vogonp4287 i agree!
its in my discord bio now........ i have a freind who's catholic.... with all the baggage...........sooo its my secret gay
MV Sister of the Seas
In Barbie & the diamond castle, Liana and Alexa literally ditch their boyfriends to walk of together. ON A GINORMOUS RAINBOW.
AND YET HE SAYS THAT BARBIE IS THE STRAIGHEST THING EVER
They're my queerplatonic dream. THE best friend to live in a cottage for life
Yeah and they aren't even their boyfriends, they're just some twins that came along with them (and unsuccessfully tried to flirt with them with a silly song)
I also love how the dresses of "the princess and the pauper" are literally the trans flag, and the cat barks, which can also be seen as a trans metaphor.
when it came out that flag wasn't popular but the cat dog sure can be interpreted!
I always saw the cat as a transmetaphor, even b4 i knew what trans was!
I definitely identified with the cat when I was little. at the time I was like "why am I identifying with a cat" but over a decade later it makes perfect sense.
that song is incredible
I'm actually losing it right now over this comment
"The one born a princess, the other in New Jersey" had me DEAD T.T
29:00
Barbie is a gay icon, I'll not be taking any questions at this time
Barbie and ken's whole relationship is a lavender marriage for sure.
@@vickylikesthis PLEASE
No questions asked. All my queer Barbies fully agree.
@@vickylikesthis tru
As you should
“Girl like you” always set something off inside my chest when I was little, similar to how “Reflection” did as well. Viewing it through rainbow lens and outside of a closet makes it take a WHOLE other meaning~
This is literally one of the most beautiful comments I've ever read.
I get emotional just by the mention or thought of it , and I mean Mulan the original one with xtina's beautiful and enchanting voice .
i unironically love and listen to that song and i'm never gonna be ashamed of it
Those 2 songs specifically and those 2 movies in general, gave me chills when I was a child. I never would've believed in my wildest dreams that it all boils down to my sexuality. And to have that experience be more universal than I realised is mind blowing.
Saaaame
"Before gay people were invented" I had a mouthful of tea but I managed to swallow before I laughed out loud! X-D
"how could anything Barbie related (besides ken) be homoerotic?" THIS FUCKING BROKE ME LMAOOOO
As a kid, a very gay kid, i used to take my sister's ken doll and pretend he was dating my Max Steel, so y'know
I FORGOT ABOUT MAX STEEL
@@amieperkins4933 Max Steel may never be forgotten for as long as i live
As an ace girl who grew up on barbie... I didn't even realize how few on screen kisses there are. No wonder I love these movies so much.
same! barbie movies as an ace kid were very ideal for me because the romance was very subtle(the hetero romance lol). I much prefered the exploration of female friendship and adventure. In disney movies it is the total opposite. The end goal is typically the marriage plot. I did love disney movies but I'd always fast forward through love songs and kiss scenes haha. I am glad disney is starting to realize that "hey maybe that is harmful to push on kids" so now we're getting more charcter driven stories. they're not perfect and neither is barbie of course but I think it is interesting and important to explore.
@@rachelkiesser5406 Yeah... Disney hasn't stopped showing hetro kissing because it's harmful to kids. You speak as if they care or that they've employed creatives who do. Absolutely not. They've stopped showing it as a false-progressive whistleblow to feminists. It's there way of pointing to characters and saying "Look! This strong, female character doesn't need a man in her story! Are we doing it right?!"
I wish I could word it without sounding like a GOP Conservative but that's the best way I can describe it. They do nothing to actually be progressive, it's performative feminism that is deeply steeped in homophobia, anti/apathetic-LGBTQ sentiment. Please do not believe that Disney cares about "the children" in the slightest. They pander to progressive groups in a way that let's them keep the money from conservative (racists/homophobes) customers.
@@grandempressvicky6387 I'm certainly not under the impression that Disney is an any way a progressive company. However, I also do not want to ignore the many progressive animators, directors, staff members, and lower level employees who fight daily for representation at Disney. For a long time they have been fighting back and they have spoken up about this many times. So while the company/corporation as a whole is certainly not something I will ever praise I want to give credit to the individuals who do care because they are fighting for what matters.
As with all political situations there is nuance. This is of course a comment section so I cannot perfectly articulate all my opinions but I just want to recognize the value in these people's work even if I strongly disagree with company they work for. I don't think they alone can fix these issues but to ignore it feels wrong. Fundamentally Disney needs to change from the inside. I hope we all continue to support those who are working to do that. As it is such a huge company that unfortunately impacts many aspects of the global economy it is rather significant. This is the realities of our capitalist hell.
I hope I communicated what I wanted to say clearly. I don't want to argue. I think this is a nuanced argument with multiple sides. I do understand why anyone would disagree.
admittedly, I watched barbie when I was already a teenager, but the way the male romance interests usually have less than 5 minutes of screen time & their entire role is just to say a few goofy lines & then leave, i'd think "god, i wish that was me..."
My thoughts exactly- ace
Ok, I just need to add that Mariposa and the Fairy Princess has literally the most wholesome sapphic love story of all time
somehow that was my fave as a kid
YESS OMG so underrated yet so blatantly homosexual that it literally inspired me to write my own fairy wlw fantasy story
@@yasminechoerryscherry3701same
Me and my best friend who grew up with these and put a queer analysis on them before we both knew we weren't straight ourselves seeing this title:
✨"Finally."✨
Best friend you say?
Me and mine too!!
@@julidulce560 "And they were roomates"
@@cupcakejack7375 “And they were sisters of the sea”
and kids, that is how i met your mother
You should watch the new barbie movie “big city big dreams”, they basically sing love songs at each other and there are so many romantic tropes that get used on them!
On god!! There duet was litterally a love song 😭😭
I was about to comment about that movie, it was literally a rom com 😭😭
Not enough people talk about how gay this movie is
I never heard of that one. Thanks for the recomendation!!!
@@daniliworld1769 It's on Netflix and is the most recent Barbie movie.
I wonder if this messaging was part of why I didn't realize I was queer until I was 12/13, despite clearly being attracted to girls in my earliest memories as a child - because these films teach the viewer that this kind of relationship is only platonic, and will always be only platonic. "Best friends now, tomorrow, always". and so on. The princess from Swan Lake was my first crush and I obsessed over her! But I was told that was friendship. I wonder if other queer people feel similarly, or if there's any research into it. This video was so well done and absolutely made me think!
I feel the same way! and i still think it’s hard to distinguish between platonic and romantic relationships with girls. While close female relationships always have been portrayed as platonic, i feel like it’s the opposite with close male relationships. Women can literally kiss each other and still be seen as platonic while men can barely be vulnerable with each other without the fear of looking "gay". In the same way men and women that are just friends always has an assumed romantic connection..
as a child I was told something similar "women can think other women are pretty and it's normal" so growing up I would find woman characters attractive and I would always tell myself that it was normal bc women can find other woman attractive and it wasn't until I was 15 that I realized it wasn't just me thinking these women were pretty but that I was attracted to them.
@@scrumptiouscrab Same, I never got crushes on my female friends but I was definitelly taught that finding other women pretty and attractive was a normal platonic thing. My mom still likes to call certain actresses super attractive, the same way she does male actors, while failing to realize that is kind of queer.
I had my first crush at 14, at some stranger girl I had never met but I could not stop looking at her and I remember thinking I wanted to make art of her. Then I proceeded to contemplate approaching her but got upset when I saw her walking with a boy and gave up. Then I gaslighted myself into thinking I just wanted to look like her and dismissed any same-sex attraction as just me overthinking platonic feelings, until a girl literally made out with me at 17, making me realize I was, in fact, bisexual.
I completely agree!! I’d have sleepovers are friends houses and want to be Barbies with them, want to have that close and almost romantic relationships like she did. I’d play her with my dolls and they’d kiss and do whatever but it was all platonic bc that’s what I thought platonic was
My mom knew I was obsessed with Barbie and The Diamond Castle as a child, and has the audacity to be surprised I turned out bisexual
Same here, except I'm closeted and biromantic
@@RandomDragonEXE in these months, I actually discovered I'm actually demisexual birromatic! ^^
Oh my god literally. I had a dvd of the movie and rewatched it over and over again. I turned out bi and demisexual.
25:00 As a lesbian, I can confirm that this is the initiation ritual that all lesbians must go through
Damn. I haven’t gone through the initiation ritual yet *cries in loneliness*
@@alicetheneko7529 best of luck for yours. I remember how nervous I was before mine, but everything was fine in the end. I'm sure your initiation ritual is gonna go great too.
@@alicetheneko7529 I'm sure it'll go great. I was nervous when I did it with my girlfriend a few years ago, but it turned out to be wonderful! Good luck!
i cam vouch as a fellow lesbian
I've said it once and i'll say it again: barbie and the princess school (or whatever it's called) is the gayest one by far. The plot is amazing, it depicts a forbidden romance between a young girl who comes from a unwealthy background and a brainwashed royal. The "poor" girl is projected into this noble milieu and isn't accepted because of her background but still fights and works for her cause and what she belives is right. The brainwashed royal will slowly detach from the ideas her mother planted in her, works her internalized homophobia out and helps her forbidden lover through her quest to take down the crown. Oh and it takes place in an all Girls school where everyone is basically a different flavor of gay.
Edit : they're cousins so I don't ship them anymore
I was legit looking for a comment about Princess Charm School lol
Even when I watched that when I was younger I knew something was up, and then I revisited it later and came to the same realization lol
Aren't they cousins
@@lilabrownexo4691 no who told you that??
*TASTE THE RAINBOW*
@@lilabrownexo4691 I can't remember if they're cousins but they are related. That's the only reason the snobby royal girl is in the running for the throne. She's the only living relative to the king and queen that died (other than Barbie, but nobody knows shes alive til the end).
Iirc, snobby royal girl's mom (villain mom) is the wife of the dead king's brother. Which is why villain mom can't be queen, she's not blood related to royalty, but her daughter is. So villain mom arranged to get the king, queen, and princess killed and make snobby royal girl queen and that way villain mom got to stay in power.
Can we please acknowledge that Alexa's and Liana's dresses are literally the Lesbian and Bisexual flag??
And princess and the pauper dresses are trans flags
@@shochre6497 then again. Wasn’t the pauper in the original tale male?
@Ravetastic. okay pessimist
@@alicetheneko7529 Yes, the original tale the Barbie movie was based off is called "The Prince & The Pauper".
@@alicetheneko7529 don't bother with trying to make ravetastic see your point, in another thread they called a gay trans man "biologically straight" so they aren't arguing in good faith when it comes to queer issues
The first time I kissed a girl was after I (9 years old) finished playing with my friend's Barbies, and after we made the Barbies kiss we kissed in real life. It was the sweetest feeling, the softest kiss you can imagine. All the kisses after that were with boys and they never kissed me as softly as she did. Anyway I'm bi--
That's so cute!
why am I, not you?
bro for we were 'just practicing' but then we played truth or dare and every dare was like "kiss me :/" urs is way sweeter tf
@@telepathicmagicshop you were 9. So was your friend I hope. Not wanna burst your bubble but it's not surprising that every kiss after this wasn't "as soft" lmao
@@caleidozkopie8344 I think you replied to the wrong person here lmao
My college just did a production of this through a queer lens! I played Julia, the nonbinary genderbent version of Julian, and Erika was made a trans woman played by an actor who was also a trans woman! We also had Liana and Alexa from Diamond Castle as our lesbian narrators haha. It was so fun
That sounds amazing! I wish I could do something like that.
@@randomusername429WHY MY SCHOOL DOESN'T DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
The song about the cat that barks like a dog always gave me celebrating LGBTQ vibes whether it was trans, non binary or some form of sexual identity she sang about not hiding who he is and that she loves him no matter what “ You're no status quo Calico. So why keep trying to be? 'Cause you're more than that. You're a doggish cat.” “If you bark, celebrate it, Make your mark, serenade it
Noah's ark should've had a cat like you
And if what you are is a strange you
Doesn't mean you should change you
Only means you should change your point of view” and the whole song is just talking about celebrating your differences instead trying to be who society tells what is normal to be
True! The cat shouldn't change itself! The cat wants to bark and it barks! Because not only dogs can bark! If you bark it doesn't mean you are a dog. And if you are a cat it doesn't mean you should only mewl.
the cat is transgender and i cannot believe this went unaddressed
@@katocs it was metaphorical
@@emmab5547 came to the comment section to find someone mentioning this because the only reason I clicked that video was laying awake just the other night thinking "bro the cat in that one barbie film you loved as a child was a trans metaphor"
Am i the only one who didn’t know Barbie was based on a German sex doll? Because wtf
I only knew it Because i watched mina les video about barbie
I had a book about barbie history when I was kid, they mentioned Bild Lili but edited out the sex bit 😂
I found out today. Never put much thought into barbie before (although did play with it for a short period as a kid), but I guess a lot of casual things have an interesting backstory once you look into it
I'm not so sure about that characterization. When I first heard Lilli described that way, I did some Googling to see what that meant. What I learned was that she was based on a comic strip character who was sort of a blonde bimbo gold-digger, but also had high standards in men and spent a lot of time telling them off. The doll was originally sold as a gag gift for men, but was then marketed as a present for men to give their girlfriends and was also played with by children. I think the "sex doll" idea was popularized by author Ariel Levy.
@@Djiril922 that's actually the true story there... No idea why he said sex doll it really wasn't lmao. I'm German btw :D
I almost literally choked to death when you said "when being gay was invented"
43:10 okay but in mainstream media hyperfeminine characters are usually potrayed as one-dimensional side characters most likely the protagonist's love interest. this is definitely not the case in the barbie movies. So we could say that barbie actually rewrites the meaning of femininity as decision making, power, assertiveness and self awareness. You don't have to posses masculine characteristics to have traditional masculine traits such as will, thought or self control. The barbie movies actually reclaim those traits to be purely feminine.
just like legally blonde. It's reclaiming feminine pride
The implication that "will, thought and self control" are seen as masculine traits is genuinely horrifying, not only because it makes feminity seem inhuman and thoughtless but also because it sees "thought and self control" as a given to males
Okey, but why in the world people call one of the most reactional ideologies flicking marxist?
How the in the world queers can help to the public ownership of the means of production.
yeah i agree here. looking at barbie alone its not great obviously but i think barbie does well for the place it has in the larger media scene today. there are plenty of women who are strong characters with masculine traits but not as many who are strong characters with feminine traits. meanwhile barbie is as feminine as they come but the narrative is always that she/the female protagonist is very capable and can do anything she needs to to help people or save the world and she never has to compromise on her femininity. that's powerful when young girls everywhere are being told that being feminine means they're weak.
do y'all remember when erika sang a gender affirming song to her trans cat in princess and the pauper.
nooo i forgot about that 💀
absolutely iconic though
frr
Wait I’m so confused the cat is trans in the movie?! 😳
@@catherinethegreatsgroceryasmr yes! The breed of cat that Wolfie is is almost impossible to be biological male, yet he's presented as a male cat who acts like a dog, which is a pretty clear (but most likely unintentional) metaphor for being trans! PLUS male Calico cats (which he is, he's a Calico) are always infertile because of their genetics, but at the end of the movie he has a bunch of kittens with Serafina, which means Serafina has to be trans as well otherwise they wouldn't be able to have kids!
@@lukewarmlava2083 Just so you know, calico toms aren't always infertile! It's very rare but they can have kits! Of course, it's much more likely that he wouldn't be, but it is possible.
The b in LGBT stands for Barbie, that's it. Do I need to say more
after all you can't spell Barbie without bi
;)
Man I love being Barbie
Barbi
As a bisexual, I agree.
LMAO yeah I feel a lot of bi vibes on Barbie
The guy on the video said "erotic", I do not thing "erotic" is the right term, is queer but no exactly erotic/sexual
Although as a cis queer woman i wouldn’t know the gender experience of a cis het woman, i argue that barbie wasn’t just a space for queer women to move away from the male gaze, but straight women too. I mean, why would straight women relate to a male perspective on women’s sexuality? By definition they wouldn’t be attracted to/looking at/perceiving women the way a cis het man would
As a straight woman I can say you are right.
As a tomboyish kid/teen I hated being sexualized and romanticized all the time. Yeah romance is cool, but why every time it has to end like this, like it's the best thing you could want in your life? I always loved Barbie movies because to me it was just girls living adventures and doing what they wanted. Therefore, I must say I'm not very happy about this queer reading of the films, mainly because of this. At the same time, I'm happy to see in the comments how this take about the films helped many queer kids, so... 😊
@@lankylowshot2246 well, a reading isn’t meant to be the only meaning for the movie, it’s just one way you could read it. I definitely liked barbie movies for alot of the same reasons as you did, ‘cause that’s how i interpreted it as a kid, but a queer interpretation also makes sense to me
@@paranoidlizard6338 yeah I know, it's just a little bit hard for me personally, because in the past I had a really hard time befriending boys without being romanticized and had to deal with loneliness and rejection because of that. But as I said, I can see that's just my personal experience, in the end I am happy to see people draw something positive out of this kind of interpretation!
are you okay?. is anyone in this comment sec okay? i cant tell...wow
@@lankylowshot2246 kids camt be gay unless someone talks them into it sorry love
My barbies always dated each other. I absolutely never wanted to acquire a Ken doll. How in the world did it take me until I was 19 to figure out I was queer?!
Same 💀 they were pretty chill 😅
"Daranged latino man watches 39 barbie movies for attention" God I love this
The Diamond Lesbia- I mean, Castle... They're literally just Catradora lol. The green eyes and mind control? Dangling off a cliff and trying not to kill the woman you lovehategay? HOLDING HER LIKE THAT??
Anyways you missed THE GAYEST one: a recent movie where Barbie's college roomie is also named Barbie. It canonizes "the black barbie" in the cinematic universe, saying that they are both equally valid as Barbie. Also they're very explicitly gay. Like, they are in an actual relationship. Also a few years ago, Barbie came out as bi on the barbiestyle instagram account, with a post that says "museum date with my gf"
I totally have things to do with my life and I'm normal!
what's the movie called?? I've never heard of it before thats super cool
what's the movie x2 I haven't watched any beyond 2012
@@xXWithoutMyHeroesXx it’s “Barbie:Big City, Big Dreams”
There is nothing gay about the movie "Barbie and the Castel of diamond",people comments about the movie shows sexism and how people sexualize women,if a woman doesn't need a man and has a close relationship with a woman is a lesbian right now for some people.
WHERE IS THE BARBIESTYLE INSTA ACCNT
When I was younger and friends made me play Barbies, mine would "accidentally" pop Ken's head off at the altar, steal his clothes, and run off to the "mountains" (couch) together in their camper van with a bunch of cats and some random orphaned children they found somewhere along the way. I think Barbie knew something long before I did...
The two genders blonde and brunette, lmao, you're killing me. As a POC girl, brunette was the closest I had to a Barbie looking like me
I’m a Chinese girl, so yah
I only recently realized that as a child, many of my Barbies were in lesbian relationships because I had many women and only two Kens. It was completely logical and natural for me to create pairs of women, although only a few months ago I thought about the fact that not every girl did that. I have good parents who gave me a sex education very early, so all my life I wondered how my classmates could be ashamed to see kisses in the movies, when I spend a lot of time arranging hot nights for Barbie and Ken.
I always joked about being bisexual, but after breaking away from a long-term abusive relationship when it was time to move on, I tried to imagine the person I wanted to have around me, and finally took it seriously that this person could be a woman. I am very glad that I stopped joking, although my parents never embarrassed me for such jokes, I still felt some pressure from the world that I should not be like that. As soon as I told my parents that I was bisexual seriously, I was supported, and my mother only advised me to change the Tinder settings so as not to miss my chance among women.
As for Barbie movies ... I thought that when I grow up I realize that they are stupid and "for children", but it turned out the opposite, each review gives me something new, and I want to show these movies to my children, if I have them. Unlike Disney cartoons, which were boxed stories, stories about a princess who wants more, and a prince whose names are not even mentioned in half of the movies, Barbie cartoons did not fit in the box. Through them, I fell in love with ballet, got visual orgasms from brilliant transformations, and learned wonderful songs, but I also got a bunch of protagonists who save themselves and the world, stories in which love is not at the center of the plot, evidence that being a woman is difficult, but we should fight for justice, and the representation of many kinds of relationships, from love and friendship, to relationships between brothers, sisters, parents and children, and more. It's more than Disney with a standard love, a standard antagonist who interferes with love, and a standard kiss that can fix everything.
Sorry for rambling so long, it was just a very emotional video for me💖💞
THIS
You r like,,so pog. So is ur parents
Nice, Barbie made me consider studying fashion design for a long time (honestly, it's still on the table because I WANT TO MAKE MYSELF CUTE DRESSES AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME EXCEPT MY WALLET).
See, I'm all up for sex ed, I absorbed knowledge without discrimination as a kid, I did make my barbies kiss sometimes, and I have known I wouldn't mind the gender of my partner since I was like 11, but I still feel akward with kissing in movies at times, and I'm almost 19 at this point 😂
@@naolucillerandom5280 I think there is a difference for me, not to look at kisses, because you don't like it visually, I also have it sometimes, it depends on the situation. And don't look at kisses because you are such an intimidated person, and for you this topic is taboo, a sin or some other nonsense. Of course, everyone can look at whatever they want, I've just met people who are disgusted with kisses, as if if they see them, they will somehow become worse people. I don't even know what they were told about trying kisses.
i feel this! i would get more “turned on” (as much as a 5-10 year old could) when i had the girl barbie’s together vs barbie w ken. but little me thought it’s just bc i too had more girl barbies. but like no, this is only a thing gay people do 😂🌈
I know it's off topic but I study geosciences and I recently rewatched The Princess and The Pauper. I was surprised to find Barbie (Anneliese) doing actual valid geological research in this film :D
"the mature figure made some parents uncomfortable. I mean, the audacity to have breasts?!"
This was literally my grandfather. In the 60's/70's my mom wasnt allowed to play with these dolls and only with more appropriate-looking "knock off's".... My grandfather is gay though so I dont know where that all fits into this.....
That kind of happened to my mom too, she wasn't allowed to have Ken's since "what if they had something down there?" :|
perhaps internalized homophobia?
Misogyny, I guess. Disinterest in the female form being exaggerated into a disgust with explicit permission from society.
@@afvp9586 when has a kids toy “had something down there”
@@MeemahSN I don't think ever but my grandma exaggerated a lot
Lesbians and Bi girls who made their Barbies scissor at 6 y/o be like: 👁👁
I feel so called out pls 😭😭😭
Omg why you calling us out 😭😭😭
Bro I’ve never related to a comment more 😭😭
Stop calling me out like that
Oh god, the embarrassing childhood memories are coming back to me 😭
The diamond castle is absolutely about the two cottage core lesbians. Can't change my mind 🏳️🌈
This is the first time I've had a man make a whole commentary on not just Barbie, a inherently femme topic, but also on femme queerness, the mold of society and queer gals all around cutting their barbie's hair off while having to fit the "perfect girl" role out in public or around family. You did such a good job, dang. Like sometimes there is a element of "I kinda don't know" when guys make very good points on literally anything related to girls let alone queer ones, so thank you for getting it and making a whole history lesson!
Saw your comment featured in his coming out video! Just thought I'd mention it if you didnt know yet!
@@yoyoyoyo-lq4jb today is so blessed then omg I have to check it out!!! Thank youuuuu!!
A historical landmark 📸
My goofy ass thought I would be the first one to deliver this news 2 months later 👁👄👁
Just watched his coming out video and I went to watch this after and stumbled on your comment haha
Barbie Mermadia was my lesbian awakening. Something about a very badass and cool mermaid Nori sparked something in me
Oh my god yeah!
Nori was my bi awakening! Looking back, it was one of those cases of "Do I want to be her or be with her?"
They trying to lead us on with the tale that Nori liked the prince but we new better-
@@emmmmie omg i hated that guy so much, now I realize why
@@sharayahkristell I think it was Flora and Helia from Winx Club for me. I now know I probably wanted to be AND date BOTH of them.
I'm autistic and obsessed with Barbie since I was a kid (it's my special interest). So I have to say: I love this so much! All the nuances, the doll's story plus sensible critiques without ignoring the good things... And yeah Barbie is queer AF everyone who watches the Diamond Castle knows it. Anyways, just another Alex coming here to say: good job, Alex! Thank you for this masterpiece!
When talking about this with others we concluded that Barbie is bisexual and Ken is extremely gay.
This😂 so true
I have been trying to convince my friends the song 'The Cat's Meow' is literally about being transgender and comfortable in your own body. Thank you for this. It's literally a barking cat ffs.
As an enby who was obsessed with the princess and the pauper as a smol and had no idea why i felt like crying every time that song played-- ☝️☝️☝️ Y E A H
okay but as a lesbian, your description of sapphic longing in the dolphin movie section actually articulated a part of me I've never heard described in such a validating way. looove that and so excited for LIVE ACTION!!!!!!
there was literally a barbie movie with fairies that had pride flags for wings.
There aren't enough Men in that universe for straight monogamy to make sense.
i personally think that liberal individualism is so inherent in united states' culture that it always appear in some way through cultural materials. i started to think about it after seeing imigrant stories (specially latin or asian ones) being told and there's always this conflict between a community-centered culture and an individual-centered one
fun fact: in psychology, "community-centered" and "individual-centered" culture come up so often that they actually have their own dedicated terms: collectivism and individualism. Cultures like that of China and Portugal are said to be collectivist whereas American culture is individualist. The terms are used to describe how behavior can differ between cultures, for example, a collectivist person may be more sympathetic towards someone else making a mistake that negatively impacts them, whereas an individualist is typically quicker to blame the individual who made the mistake. "They probably just couldn't see around the corner" vs "That asshole wasn't looking and almost rammed into me"
@princeparkook and with late stage capitalism as it is, that's unlikely to change. You either look out for yourself or you end up homeless or dead.
@@BradenBest would be nice if we could jsut take the best of both tbh
@@CristalianaIvor We can and we are doing it, maybe not fast enough for our species to survive, but there's hope still...
My favorite part of playing with Barbie as a child was to sew clothes for her. This is how at young age I knew I want to become a designer. And I did, just a bit different kind of a designer (3D), But still requires for me to create clothes in digital format.
I only had Barbie’s as a kid, no kens so I always made my dolls marry each other and live in a dollhouse together and told my mom that they were just ‘roommates’
Oh My God they were Roommates
@@homoromoacecase they were roommate’s
Same except I didn’t know ppl were gay and I only had 1 Barbie so I didn’t do this ;-;
Bro I had these dolls called LOL Dolls and before there were boy ones I had the girls get married.
I had a friend who had Kens... She still made her barbie's kiss and get married.
All my barbie's were powerful single baddies who travelled the world and needed no man while living together in a huge mansion, or maybe being neighbors but owning the whole street
i too, was born in the 2000s. and i remember when i was like 8, the only barbie movie i knew was princess and the pauper, and i watched it on my CD, every single day.
very influential in my life
It WAS my life 🙌
I bought it on DVD as an adult and rewatch it every now and again. It's truly a masterpiece!
bibble, the dogs, and that one peacock sum of my memory of barbie movies
I watched it all the time with my cousin, and I’d pretend to be “the pink girl” and she’d be “the blue girl” cause they were are favorite colors uwu
that one was my ffaaavvorite barbie movie (this video helped me learn why). i had the actual barbies of princess and the pauper (and their pets) and u could press a button on their back to sing together in harmony. and then i’d make them have seggs lmao
1:35 Magic Ring Ken!! This guy was “accidentally inspired” by gay bars where fashion designers were trying to make cool Ken outfits
From this video I've learned that barbie made me non binary and bisexual, thank you barbie.
thank you barbie (2)
Barby made me a transbian. Well at least I dodged the straight dude bullet
I'm glad we're finally admitting that barbie made us gay. It tooks awhile but we did it ladies and gentlemen
Thank you Barbie (3)
thank you barbie (4)
As a lesbian, I can say for certain the "learning to swim like a mermaid" (24:52-25:05) montage is 100% a lesbian mating ritual. Welcome to the club barbie
Barbie Rock'n'Royal's song What If I Shine is literally a coming out song! "I spend too much time thinking about who I'm supposed to be, I play by everybody's rules that don't seem right to me, I'm cool and polite, on the outside, When I get a chance, I run and I hide, If your eyes are closed, it's hard to seeWhat if I back down now, 'Cause I'm afraid of what might happen, What if they turn away, When I show them who I truly am, What if I lose my breath, When I throw those big doors open, Or tonight, just tonight, What if I shine?" I meeeeaaaaannnnn... Amazing video though!
I saw Erica's cat as a trans metaphor. Biologically a cat but acts more like a dog. He tries to fit in as a cat by attempting to meow but Erica sees how uncomfortable is trying to be something he isn't and reassures him that he doesn't have to be 100% a cat.
I'm not trans so if I'm misreading it, someone please tell me.
You’re spot on, my friend!
Same
@Oh Sangwoo as much as i love your comment your name and pfp terrifies me
nah you hit the bullseye dead on
Nah as a trans person, I agree
the line "marry whom i choose" never really stuck to me now, like they could've made the line "marry the man i love"-- i'm aware that has too many syllables, but that's not the point-- they COULD'VE made it less gay with enough work but they didn't. 😏
The rhythm must have been better with the former, I don't see that as a planned move personally
Since I've grown up with the german dub of this movie this was such a missed opportunity!! Because in German Anneliese still sings "Such mir meinen Mann selbst aus/choosing my own husband"
I had to be honest. I watch many of the Barbie movies because I loved the touch of fancy dresses and castles. But something that I really felt attracted to was the cute guys. For a gay boy who grow up in a cult, those movies were the closest I could imagine myself living in an alternative world. I wished many times that I could have my own Prince 🤴. Barbie movies still one of my favorites.
I was one of the animation editors on Dophin Magic when it was being produced and the whole time was like "is it just me or is Barbie in love with this queer-coded mermaid?". Glad to see my thoughts validated!
"pull themselves up by their bra straps"
holy shit that killed me
when i was young i was OBSESSED with the diamond castle film. Mainly cuz there were barely any male characters appearance i think neither many romantic scenes.
Barbie is gay, because as far as i'm concerned my barbies kissed each other when i was little.
Random fun gay fact: The current voice actress of Barbie, Erica Lindbeck, is bisexual.
😏😏
Canon Barbie is bi and Ken is closeted gay or aro ace
i literally remember feeling there was romantic chemistry between Erika and Annalise when I was a child hahahaha I thought they were into eachother!
I used to think they were twins separated at birth
as a socialist lesbian who loved barbies, barbie movies and polly pocket (early 2000s) as a kid, i'm really loving this video
Wait? You were socialist as a kid?
@@ratulxy lol nah i didn’t know anything, just liked playing with dolls
if ur socialist go to russia and say ur lesbian.
@@we_allhaveapurpose3954 lmfao ignorance
@@hannah18958 haha I get it.
The funny thing is that I just remmind the girls in barbies movies, but never the guys, like they didn't exist
honestly same. It's like the moment they left the screen it's like they didnt even exist to my brain when I was a kid
Same, but I think that's because of how the movies are written. Never thought about it before
They had some puffy pants, I liked those
i was born in 1998 and was obsessed with barbie and bratz as a child, including the movies, dolls, and video games… now i’m a 23 year old overcoming internalized homophobia, accepting that i am queer, and working on a career in costuming for film… the absolute pipeline this video make me discover LMAO
may i also add that i was especially obsessed with princess and the pauper, had one of the singing dolls and everything
Been waiting for a vid like this. Diamond Castle and Princess and the Pauper were definitely a big part of my Sapphic awakening.
i remember when i was younger i used to make one of my barbie dolls “become a ken”, as in he’d talk to his friends and say he felt like a boy and was treated like one ever since then. i wonder why my parents never suspected i was trans when it was that obvious
plus i just straight up asked my dad if i was trans when i was like 7 and even though he said no i always kinda “knew” i was
@@eggoyt_smixwire Dude I keep seeing stories like this about how Barbie connects to members of the LGBT community and their experiences, even perhaps contributing to their identities in childhood and theyre all so sweet and beautiful.. All I got for yall is I think Preminger appeared on screen and child me was instantly filled with drama, bisexuality, and malice.
and they be like you never showed any signs
And hey said i was just a "tomboy". No ma, I'm trans, just be happy you got the son you always wanted
“What rolls do we play when he play?”
Me, remembering the hell my dolls went through: “…It’s complicated.”
SAME
As a lesbian, I can confirm swimming around with your lesbian/mermaid girlfriend *is* a lesbian initiation ceremony
Ayeee Connor ur here!!! 😂😂
Yes, i can agree to🤣
Gay-Mer girl
The colors of their dresses in Diamond Castle are the color schemes of some very relevant pride flags ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Seems PRETTY specific ~
Unfortunately the movie debuted before the flags were designed, so it's just a coincidence.
My favorite colors have always happened to be the bisexual colors throughout my childhood. I literally had purple blue and pink stripes across my wall. It didn’t mean anything.
those flags came about Ten years after the movie was released
I miss the time when we would not label colours by sexuality,I'm sick of people assuming that if someone likes or uses things with colours the person is part of LGBT+community.
😮LOVE the conclusion, "Is Barbie gay? You decide." I learned to love Barbie through my daughter and let me say this Barbie has many names and many roles. She's queen, warrior, robot... Great analysis! Also the Dolphin Magic movie is so gay!! I wonder how come my husband doesn't see it, I guess you see what you want to see and that this is a strenght of Barbie's.
This showed up exactly as I was looking for something to procrastinate writing my english essay analysizing something with queer marxist theory. I don,t know whether to be impressed or afraid
THATS AMAZING
Same, the essay is due 5 hours but I couldn't care less lol (I'm actually dying)
In the german dub, the baddie from Diamond Castle calls Alexa Lianas ex-girlfriend. That’s all I’m gonna say
REALLY?? where can i find thisss
ok but what else were they supposed to say when the word for (female) friend and girlfriend is the same in german?
people could still interprete it as just friends
@@shariniskarin1529 If it's "Ex-Freundin", no, that only can refer to a girlfriend.
@@elektra121 i honestly don't know what the german dub is actually saying, haven't watched the movie
I remember when I was a kid and cut one of my Barbie dolls hair and dressed them in masculine doll clothes and essentially made them over to be a ken-
And now I'm trans
Yeah I just played superhero with them and got ticked how easy to break they were now I genderbend to girl sometimes
When I was a kid me and my best friend would say stuff like "I'm never gonna marry a man, I'd rather live with you forever" and sing barbie songs about "friendship". Now I'm 21 and I think I might not be completely heterosexual.
Ah yes. The Barbie video we've been waiting for.