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.

  • boredtortoise@lemm.eeEnglish
    153·
    1 year ago

    Barbie starting the revolution in China? Hopefully other countries as well. Good timeline.

      • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
        65·
        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
          9·
          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.

          • LanthanaeEnglish
            41·
            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.

              • LanthanaeEnglish
                21·
                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.

                  • notenoughbutter@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    8·
                    1 year ago

                    what is communism to you then?

                    just calling a country follows communism doesn’t actually make it, you have to implement it on the ground level

                    I don’t see any communist policies working in China

                    seriously, why do you think China is communist?

                  • LanthanaeEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Yeah that’s the response I thought you’d give.

                    I mean in a literal sense, this statement is correct and mostly the point I’m trying to make, but you mean that as a “gotcha” of some kind rather than a matter of fact.

                    Can you just give me your actual argument against what I said instead of doing whatever it is you’re trying to do here? It’s hard to discuss when I don’t know what you’re actually trying to assert.