Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This video essay uses the Barbie Movie as a primer to help explain what patriarchy actually is, what it isn't, and how it ends up harming everyone, including men.

PATREON
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PAYPAL
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REFERENCES
• The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy by Allan G Johnson
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
• Masculinities by R. W. Connell

VIDEOS
• Longer supercut of conservatives freaking out
patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-95631754
• Longer supercut of fictional characters saying the word patriarchy
patreon.com/posts/another-behind-97665659
• Supercut of fictional male characters saying the word patriarchy
patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-3-99506234
• Julia Fox Takes A lie Detector Test
vanityfair.com/video/watch/lie-detector-test-vf-lie-detector-julia-fox

SUBTITLES
• Help translate this video over on Amara
amara.org/videos/H0IvWPZJuDKv/info/patriarchy-according-to-the-barbie-movie

TEXT TRANSCRIPT
• Coming soon

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