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☆ ‘Emasculating’: Shakira and her sons really aren’t fans of ‘Barbie’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Colombian superstar Shakira has said her two sons “absolutely hated” the movie “Barbie” because it was “emasculating,” adding that she partially agreed. “I think that men have a purpose in society and women have another purpose as well. (“Barbie” was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, which shares the same parent company as CNN.) Margot Robbie as Barbie in Warner Bros. Pictures' "Barbie". Courtesy of Warner Bros. PicturesWhile the core of its female empowerment message was largely praised, some pointed out the dangers of portraying misogyny as deriving from incompetence rather than malice.

Persons: Shakira, “, ”, Sasha, Gerard Piqué, ” “ Barbie ”, Barbie ”, Greta Gerwig’s, Barbie, Ken, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, “ Barbie ”, ” Gerwig Organizations: CNN, Warner Bros . Pictures, Warner Bros ., New York Times Locations: Milan, Spanish

☆ 95% of Americans plan to look for a new job in 2024, survey finds — Here's how to switch strategically
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Charlotte Morabito | In Charlottemorabito | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A majority of Americans, 95%, said they plan to look for a new job this year, according to a January 2024 survey by job site Monster. Money is a big reason, with 45% of workers saying they need a higher income. Data from the Federal Reserve shows that job switchers increase their salaries more quickly, on average, than those who stay put. The first time she switched jobs, she took a $20,000 pay cut in order to gain experience. Abdul told CNBC she continued to grow her salary through promotions and other job hops.

Persons: Kyyah Abdul, I've, Abdul, She's Organizations: Federal Reserve, Finance, CNBC Locations: Los Angeles

☆ What kind of 'Barbie' are you? Here are the Barbieland jobs that most real-life women hold, according to government data
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Ana Teresa Solá | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In the "Barbie" movie, the narrator says, "Barbie has a great day every day." As women's participation in the labor force has increased over the years, the group continues to face hurdles along the way. "We have the tightest labor market for women in the past 20-something years," Bustamante said. "As the labor market gets tighter and tighter and tighter, women's employment rises faster than men's," Pollak said. "To think of just the scale of construction employment and women are still such a marginal piece of that sector," he said.

Persons: Margot Robbie, Barbie, Julia Pollak, R, Bustamante, Pollak, " Pollak Organizations: Mattel, Warner Bros, U.S . Bureau of Labor Statistics, Roosevelt Institute, Census, National Women's Law, Warner Brothers Pictures Locations: New York, U.S

☆ For ‘Barbie’ Fans Online, a Bitterly Ironic Oscar Snub
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the 2024 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, the snubs of the two most prominent women involved in “Barbie” — the director, Greta Gerwig, and the lead actress, Margot Robbie — became the breakout story. The top-grossing film of 2023, passing the $1 billion mark worldwide, is based on the imagined life and times of the iconic Mattel doll. A cultural phenomenon on its own terms, “Barbie,” along with “Oppenheimer,” became half of an unusually thoughtful summer blockbuster duo released on the same day in July (“Barbenheimer”): nothing to sneeze at. “Let me see if I understand this: the Academy nominated ‘Barbie’ for Best Picture (eight nominations total) — a film about women being sidelined and rendered invisible in patriarchal structures — but not the woman who directed the film. Okay then,” read a viral X post by the writer Charlotte Clymer.

Persons: “ Barbie ”, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie —, “ Barbie, “ Oppenheimer, ”, ‘ Barbie ’, —, Charlotte Clymer, Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Ryan Gosling, Gosling, Ken, “ We’re, Jodi Lipper Organizations: Mattel, America Locations: Barbieland

☆ Opinion: Why the ‘Barbie’ Oscars snubs are so enraging
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“Barbie” (whose distributor shares a parent company with CNN) got nods for best picture, best supporting actress (America Ferrera) and best supporting actor (Ryan Gosling), among others. Think back to the movie moment where Writer Barbie (Alexandra Shipp) accepts the Nobel Prize in Barbieland with a concise speech: “Thanks. It’s worth noting that Robbie was nominated as a producer for “Barbie” and Gerwig was nominated for best adapted screenplay, but that doesn’t alter how enraging this all is. But there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film.”Ryan Gosling as Ken in 'Barbie.' Courtesy of Warner Bros. PicturesI’ve always been struck by the dissonance between the best picture and best director categories.

Persons: Sara Stewart, Sara Stewart Todd Thompson, Oscar, “ Barbie, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Barbie, it’s, Barbie ”, Ryan Gosling, “ Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Alexandra Shipp, Robbie, “ Barbie ”, Gerwig, Bird, Brad Meltzer, Ken, ” Stephen King, Gosling, “, l’d, I’m, ” Ryan Gosling, I’ve, There’s, Justine Triet, ”, Jane Campion, Triet, Marielle Heller, Celine Song, ” Gerwig Organizations: CNN, Mojo, “ Little, Academy, Warner Bros, Pictures Social, New York Times Locations: Pennsylvania

☆ The Birkenstock brothers are worth $3.4 billion, even after the shoemaker's shares tanked at its IPO
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Two heirs of Birkenstock are now worth $3.4 billion after the company's IPO, Bloomberg reported. Birkenstock listed in New York on Wednesday, but shares opened at 11% below their offer price. AdvertisementAdvertisementTwo of the heirs of German sandal maker Birkenstock are now worth a combined $3.4 billion after the company went public, Bloomberg reported. The nearly 250-year-old company listed on the New York Stock Exchange via an IPO, trading under the ticker "BIRK" and pushing up the fortunes of Alex and Christian Birkenstock. The brothers netted more than €3 billion ($3.2 billion) from that transaction, Bloomberg reported.

Persons: Birkenstock, —, Alex, Christian Birkenstock, Christian, Stephan, Karl Birkenstock, Alex Birkenstock, Bernard, Alexandre Arnault, Charles Dolan, Kendall Jenner, Barbie, boomers, Xers, Gen Zers, Greta Gerwig's, Emma Chamberlain Organizations: Bloomberg, Service, New York Stock Exchange, Warner Bros Locations: New York, Germany, Americas, Europe ., Boston, Barbieland

☆ ‘Barbie’ is Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing global release ever
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Comscore estimated a global total of $1,341,854,460 through Monday for “Barbie.”On Monday, Warner Bros. said “Barbie” will pass “Harry Potter” to become its highest grossing film globally. “Barbie” and the “Harry Potter” films are distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, which is owned by CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. A blockbuster summerJust last week, “Barbie” surpassed “Super Mario Bros.” as the highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office this year. “Barbie” also was crowned Warner Bros. Discovery’s highest-grossing domestic release, beating out “The Dark Knight” in 2008. In late August, “Blue Beetle” — also distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures — unseated “Barbie” from the top of the US box office.

Persons: ”, Harry Potter, Greta Gerwig’s “, “ Barbie, Harry Potter ”, “ Barbie ”, Barbie ’, Paul Dergarabedian, ” Dergarabedian, Dergarabedian, Mario, “, Knight ”, Gerwig, — Organizations: New, New York CNN, Warner Bros, Disney, Star Wars, Office, Century Fox, Warner Bros . Pictures, Warner Bros ., Mattel, Discovery’s Locations: New York

☆ Australia Women's World Cup: After Barbie, the Matildas became the new heroes in cleats
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But now, seemingly in the blink of an eye, we’re all wearing green and gold for our newest heroes, Australia’s Women’s World Cup hopefuls, the Matildas. Sam Kerr takes the ball during a FIFA World Cup 2023 round of 16 match between Australia and Denmark at Stadium Australia on August 7. “A lot of people just frankly don’t want to believe women’s sport is doing well,” Lassey told CNN. Football Australia said part of the rationale for bringing the Women’s World Cup to Australia was to use it to grow the women’s game – backed by a 357 million Australian dollar ($232 million) FIFA legacy fund. Argus says the World Cup is a turning point for women’s sport because the turnout and viewing numbers have proven that there’s an enthusiastic audience.

Persons: Barbie, Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, Australia’s, they’ve, Sam Kerr, Mary Fowler, Caitlin Foord, Hayley Raso, Daniela Porcelli, “, ”, Jackie Schougaard, Alfred Hotel, “ Everyone’s, It’s, Jason Lassey, –, ” Lassey, Matildas, —, “ I’m, Hannah Mckay, Bruce McAvaney, I’m, Maddie Meyer, Kevin Argus, ” Argus, we’ve, Lassey, We’re, Robbie, Gerwig, Barbie ”, ” Gerwig Organizations: Australia CNN, Neighbours, Hollywood, Chelsea, FIFA, Stadium Australia, France, Brisbane, Caxton, Footy Industry, –, AFL, Australian Football League, CNN, Denmark, Sydney, Football Australia, team, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT, Socceroos, ”, “, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Denmark, Melbourne

☆ What is patriarchy? What does it mean and why is everyone talking about it?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Eliza Anyangwe | Melissa Mahtani | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

However, the main characteristic of a patriarchal society is one where men hold more power and authority which subsequently leads to male privilege. As such, a woman's place in a patriarchal society is primarily to be homemakers, procreators or caregivers. Gender inequality -- the unequal treatment of someone based solely on their gender -- is an outcome of patriarchal societies but the terms do not mean the same thing. Despite strides towards sex equality that have been gaining momentum for more than a century, the US remains a patriarchal society. While not evenly accorded to all males, being assigned male at birth in a patriarchal society comes with privileges.

Persons: Greta Gerwig's, Barbie, Ken, Gerwig, Allan Johnson, Roe, Wade, Angela Saini, Saini, General António Guterres, Guterres Organizations: CNN, United Nations, BBC, UN Locations: American, British, Çatalhöyük, Turkey, matriarchies, Asante, Ghana, Barbieland, Sumatra, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Panama, China, Khasi, India, Angola, Namibia

☆ ‘This Barbie has a Nobel Prize’: Malala Yousafzai jokes husband is ‘just Ken’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

He’s just Ken.”The tagline for the record-breaking “Barbie” movie highlights the stark difference between Margot Robbie’s lead character and her lackluster, overlooked boyfriend Ken, played by Ryan Gosling. It quickly became a running joke on social media leading up to the release of the movie. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Yousafzai posted a picture of herself with her husband, Asser Malik, inside the Barbie box. “BEST Barbie caption I’ve read so far,” another user wrote. The song does later get more upbeat however, with Ken exclaiming: “I’m just Ken and I’m enough.

Persons: He’s, Ken, Barbie, Margot Robbie’s, Ryan Gosling, Malala Yousafzai, Yousafzai, Asser Malik, ”, Kailash Satyarthi, Greta Gerwig’s, “, Lilly Singh, Malik, Ken ”, “ I’m Organizations: CNN, Oxford University, Warner Bros

☆ How Those ‘Barbie’ Dreamhouses Came to Life: ‘We All Had to Believe in It’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To simulate that feel, “the Dreamhouses in the film are 23 percent smaller than they would be, as are the cars and roads,” Greenwood said. When Barbie opens her refrigerator, most of the foods are simply flat cartoon decals. “Once you’ve done that once or twice, those moments of dollness, it makes the whole thing believable,” Spencer said. With few walls to speak of, Barbie Dreamhouses are the definition of “open plan,” which presented its own logistical problems. If it feels artificial, that’s the point: Why preserve the fourth wall for homes that barely have any walls to begin with?

Persons: ” Greenwood, Margot, Ryan, Spencer, Barbie, Barbies, ” Spencer, Barbie Dreamhouses, ”, Greenwood, Greta

☆ How the Indigo Girls Brought Barbie ‘Closer to Fine’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Trish Bendix | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In Greta Gerwig’s Barbieland, where every day is the best day ever, pop stars like Lizzo, Dua Lipa and Charli XCX provide a bouncy soundtrack as the live-action dolls go about their cheery, blissful lives. “There’s more than one answer to these questions, pointing me in a crooked line,” she sings with a smile, before thrusting a manicured pointer in the air. Barbie’s song of choice on her way to the Real World is the Indigo Girls’ “Closer to Fine.”The Indigo Girls, a folk duo from Georgia who have released 15 studio albums since 1987, featured “Closer to Fine” as the opening track on their self-titled 1989 LP. Emily Saliers wrote the song after she and her fellow singer and guitarist, Amy Ray, graduated from Emory University in Atlanta and were regularly playing a local bar called Little Five Points. It became a staple of the Girls’ live show that spread thanks to college radio play and an opening slot on tour with another Georgia band, R.E.M.

Persons: Greta Gerwig’s Barbieland, Charli, Margot Robbie’s, Emily Saliers, Amy Ray, It’s, Saliers Organizations: Emory University Locations: Dua Lipa, Georgia, Atlanta

☆ Opinion | The Hunger Fed by ‘Barbie’ and Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“What happens in the crowd is messy, wild, benevolent and beautiful,” Amanda Petrusich wrote in The New Yorker about a Swift concert. It’s too contradictory!”The important part of this monologue — spoilers ahead — is not only what it articulates, but what it accomplishes. “By giving voice to the cognitive dissonance required to be a woman under the patriarchy you robbed it of its power!” exclaims the film’s heroine, Stereotypical Barbie, played by Margot Robbie. And, ultimately, as difficult as being an adult woman is, Robbie’s Barbie chooses it over remaining in the sexless girlhood idyll of Barbieland, as we learn in the film’s perfect last line. Given the evident hunger out there for entertainment that channels female angst, it would make sense for Hollywood, once the writers’ and actors’ strikes are over, to do more to cultivate female writers and directors.

Persons: Amanda Petrusich, Barbie, Guardian she’d, “ I’ve, America, Gloria, “, Barbies, ”, Margot Robbie, Robbie’s Barbie, ’, “ Barbie, Swift, Greta Gerwig, “ Barbie ” Organizations: Yorker, Guardian, Hollywood, Center, Women, ” Searchlight Pictures

☆ The 'Barbie' movie could make as much money as it spent on months of elaborate marketing stunts in its first 3 days
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Sirena Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The rumor is $100 million. Still, $100 million feels about right, especially compared to what other movies spend. It's been boosted by the unexpected showdown between the pink, sparkly, sunshine Barbie movie, and the other blockbuster opening the same day — about the guy who invented the atomic bomb. Variety reports that on its opening weekend, "Barbie" is expected to take between $95 million and $110 million from ticket sales in North America alone, which would match what we assume was spent on marketing. But if "Barbie" can get that many people through the door on its opening weekend, the huge advertising push has definitely done something right.

Persons: Barbie, it's, Barbie Dreamhouse, Warner Bros hasn't Organizations: Vogue, Warner Bros, Mattel, Variety Locations: Malibu, North America

☆ Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Dream Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Willa Paskin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Someone more cynical than Gerwig might have been less moved by Mattel’s corporate epiphany, 60 years into existence, that Barbie could sustain being a size 6, but cynicism is clearly not Gerwig’s way. The movie sidesteps whatever role Barbie might play in perpetuating a narrow, idealized femininity; instead it gives this particular Barbie a crash course in modern misogyny. After decades of fretting about girls’ wanting to be as perfect as Barbie, Gerwig serves up a Barbie struggling to be as resilient as us. This woman is played by the 91-year-old, Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth, a friend of Gerwig’s. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”

Persons: Barbie, ”, “, Gerwig, Ruth Handler, Rhea Perlman, Ariana Greenblatt, Ann Roth, Gerwig’s, —, ‘, ” Gerwig Organizations: Mattel Locations: Barbieland, Los Angeles

☆ See Margot Robbie’s best outfits from the ‘Barbie’ press tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Jacquelyn Palumbo | Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —She may be a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, but the boundaries between Barbieland and real life are blurring as Margot Robbie undertakes her whirlwind international press tour for the Greta Gerwig-directed movie, out later this month. Han Myung-Gu/WireImage/Getty ImagesIn Sydney, Robbie wore a shimmering Versace mini dress. Richard Milnes/ShutterstockRyan Gosling and Robbie at a press event in Los Angeles, where Robbie wore Valentino. Jon Kopaloff/Getty ImagesRobbie's polkadot Valentino dress was a nod to the 'Pink and Fabulous' Barbie doll from 2015. Mattel; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images NorthRobbie in Versace at a "Barbie" fan event on July 1.

Persons: Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, Robbie, Andrew Mukamal, Mukamal, Herve Leger, ’ Barbie, Versace, Chung Sung, Zendaya, ” Jenna, ”, Jeremy Scott, Barbie, Han Myung, Richard Milnes, Shutterstock Ryan Gosling, Valentino, Jon Kopaloff, polkadot Valentino, James Gourley Organizations: CNN, Mattel, ”, Halle Bailey’s, Warner Bros . Pictures, Warner Bros . Locations: Seoul, Moschino, Sydney, Los Angeles

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