One user on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu shared a guide for how women can test their boyfriends based on their reaction to the film.

For some women in China, “Barbie” is more than just a movie — it’s also a litmus test for their partner’s views on feminism and patriarchy.

The movie has prompted intense social media discussion online, media outlets Sixth Tone and the China Project reported this week, prompting women to discuss their own dating experiences.

One user on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu — a photo-sharing site similar to Instagram that’s mostly used by Gen Z women — even shared a guide on Monday for how women can test their boyfriends based on their reaction to the film.

According to the guide, if a man shows hatred for “Barbie” and slams female directors after they leave the theatre, then this man is “stingy” and a “toxic chauvinist,” according to Insider’s translation of the post. Conversely, if a man understands even half of the movie’s themes, “then he is likely a normal guy with normal values and stable emotions,” the user wrote.

  • Arotrios@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have to admit, Barbie becoming a Chinese feminist icon was not on my 2023 bingo card. Anyone taking bets on when we’re gonna get a kpop version of this classic?

  • doggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Women in the US are doing that too.

    I guess it works, to a point. If your man throws a Shapiro-esque fit over this movie he probably isn’t great to be around the rest of the time.

      • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        No it’s not lol

        Their political leaders are billionaires, the workers don’t own any means of production, there’s terrible workers rights, etc.

        • whatsarefoogee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          That’s how communism always ends up. When you hand over majority of the power to the state, it won’t be keen on giving it back.

          That’s like saying the US is not capitalist because we don’t have a true free market and better products/services don’t always rise to the top.

          These simply aren’t things that can practically happen, just like the workers owning the means of production.

          • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            That doesn’t make any sense though. Communism isn’t when you “give power to the state.” It’s a word used to describe a specific economic system that China does not have. The word that best describes what I think you’re getting at is “authoritarian.” Words mean things, and if a thing doesn’t fit the definition of a word, then it isn’t that word.

              • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Homie, which states have ever actually implemented communism? Calling yourself “Communist” means about as much as North Korea calling themselves a" Democratic People’s Republic" if you don’t actually implement it’s ideas.

                Additionally, all attempts at democracy, and all instances of capitalism, have resulted in tyranny, because it’s just really hard to build a society that doesn’t do that no matter what governmental system and economic system you set out to establish.

                Even places like New Zealand or the Nordic countries which are much closer to a social democracy are tyrannical insofar as they participate, propagate, and benefit from a global network of capitalism that is only possible through the exploitation of hundreds millions, if not billions of people. Outsourcing your tyranny and exploitation to other places on the planet is still tyranny.and exploitation: it just has better PR.

                • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  01·
                  1 year ago

                  which states have ever actually implemented communism?

                  Ah, no true communism. Communism certainly can’t end up authoritarian if there is no true communism. ;p

  • notoriousCAT74w@discuss.onlineEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    What are those " themes " in that movie? You stupid women don’t even know what is in the movie and here you are trying to lecture us . And why this movie is suddenly a " litmus test " for partner’s views on "patriarchy "? You stupid wimps want to decide based on some random movie , if that man is a good person or not. This movie is obviously promoting some stupid woke ideas , trying to show how men are evil in some way or another.

    • Jack Riddle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      asks question

      assumes because they don’t know the answer that women(who are obiously inferior to their massive intellect) don’t know either

      groups all women together as stupid

      completely misunderstands the message of the movie

      Good work, mate

      Edit: formatting