Elon Musk slams ‘Barbie’ over its anti-patriarchy message

Elon Musk is seeing crimson over Greta Gerwig’s pink-colored feminist satire “Barbie.”

The billionaire CEO of Twitter weighed in on the hit comedy, tweeting Monday: “It you’re taking a shot each time Barbie says the phrase ‘patriarchy’, you’ll go out earlier than the film ends.”

Musk, 52, was responding to a movie-themed meme poking enjoyable at his latest choice to vary Twitter’s blue hen emblem to “X.”

The Tesla founder echoed the phrases of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who likewise took concern with the frequent use of the phrase “patriarchy” in “Barbie.”

Shapiro first complained final week in regards to the variety of instances “patriarchy” was uttered within the movie.

“All it is advisable find out about #BarbieTheMovie is that it unironically makes use of the phrase ‘patriarchy’ greater than 10 instances,” Shapiro whined on Twitter final week.

The fitting-wing columnist additionally shared a video of himself throwing Barbie dolls on a grill and setting them on hearth.

Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s spouse, Ginger, went as far as to name for a boycott of “Barbie.”

“The 2023 Barbie film, sadly, neglects to deal with any notion of religion or household, and tries to normalize the concept women and men can’t collaborate positively (yuck),” Ginger Gaetz tweeted, including, “I actually needed to take pleasure in it, however ended up feeling let down.”

The movie follows “Stereotypical Barbie,” performed by Margot Robbie, as she tries to make sense of feminism and patriarchy after leaving plastic Barbieland and venturing into the true world to resolve her sudden existential disaster.

Regardless of Musk, Shapiro and Ginger Gaetz’s finger-wagging, “Barbie”– one half of the “Barbenheimer” movie-going phenomenon — went on to make historical past with an eye-popping $162 million opening weekend in North America.

Not solely did “Barbie,” starring Robbie and Ryan Gosling, break the opening weekend file for 2023 — and publish the most important home opening for a non-superhero movie or sequel — but it surely additionally shattered the primary weekend file for a movie directed by a girl.

Christopher Nolan’s epic “Oppenheimer,” helmed by Cillian Murphy because the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer, got here in a distant second, raking in a still-impressive $82 million from 3,610 theaters within the US and Canada.