rosencrantz
9mo ago
Not sure if you have seen the film? The Kens definitely aren't portrayed as evil, they're just misguided and naive and kinda sweet. Gerwig said she was inspired by her 4-year-old's emotional lability.
rosencrantz
9mo ago
The Mattel executive team appears to be 6 men and 1 woman (in HR of course) so it's not actually that far off!
https://corporate.mattel.com/investors/corporate-governance/executive-officers
I thought there was an interesting bit where the Will Ferrell character insists that they've had a female CEO in the past, that was one of the (relatively few) moments in the movie where I sensed the hand of Mattel behind the scenes.
rosencrantz
9mo ago
Some truth in that but Mattel's strategy is to be an IP company like Marvel, they obviously want to sell toys but the movie itself is part of a bigger strategy to make more movies and such.
Richard Hanania accounts for cancellable comments made under a pseudonym in his past like this:
I think this makes sense as an explanation. But exactly why are we supposed to believe that the views he still holds about women are not motivated by similar frustrations? Does he need to prove that he is now completely content with his romantic life? How are we supposed to know that he doesn't still harbour some personal resentments that find their way into his political views (albeit to a lesser extent than when he was in his 20s?).
It seems hard for him to admit one thing without admitting the other, given that he has continued to specialise in saying incendiary things about the same outgroups in a similarly disagreeable style.
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