Unlike the media, I have not exactly been fawning over the huge box office numbers this past weekend. But even I must admit that it’s rather fascinating to see this kind of success for a film that centers around one of the most devastating and deadly inventions in the history of the human race. Indeed it is not every day that audiences flock to see a movie about a weapon of mass destruction. And of course lots of people also went to see “Oppenheimer.”
But “Barbie” was the bigger film, and it tells the story of a vastly more destructive force. I don’t mean the Barbie doll, but rather feminism. Not every man-made weapon of mass death is as obvious as a nuclear bomb. Mushroom clouds are easy to comprehend; the significance is obvious. But the more abstract, intangible threats to human life can be far deadlier than nukes.
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