Recording artist Shakira had some critical thoughts about the Greta Gerwig-directed summer blockbuster, “Barbie.”
The 47-year-old star recently discussed the movie touted as having girl-power messaging, saying she doesn’t believe women should become powerful by taking power away from men.
“My sons absolutely hated it,” the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer said during a newly published interview with Allure. “They felt that it was emasculating. And I agree, to a certain extent. I’m raising two boys. I want ’em to feel powerful too [while] respecting women.”
“I like pop culture when it attempts to empower women without robbing men of their possibility to be men, to also protect and provide,” Shakira continued. “I believe in giving women all the tools and the trust that we can do it all without losing our essence, without losing our femininity. I think that men have a purpose in society and women have another purpose as well. We complement each other, and that complement should not be lost.”
She added, “Why not share the load with people who deserve to carry it, who have a duty to carry it as well?”
Shakira made headlines last year after her very public split from her longtime boyfriend, former professional soccer player Gerard Piqué. The couple was together for 11 years and had two children together, but they were never married. They broke up amid allegations of Piqué cheating on Shakira.
The “Barbie” movie was a smash hit but received mixed reviews from many critics, especially for sending messaging that feels outdated. Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro called the film “a flaming piece of dog s*** piled atop an entire dumpster on fire piled atop a landfill filled with dog s***.”
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“The politics of the film are completely askew,” Shapiro said while debating Daily Wire host Brett Cooper over the merits of the movie. “Because the entire basis of the film is that the real world is a complete patriarchy, so magically patriarchal that Ken learns from it and goes back to Barbie Land where he then applies the patriarchal standards of the real world … and that the only solution to create paradise is that men and women must be separated from one another.”
Shapiro called the storyline and overall messaging “lazy.”