There’s an amusing spectacle at the moment of young “bros” (for lack of a better term for properly anti-woke males) taking in Barbie ironically, cheering for the cartoonish patriarchy of Ken. I am not sure this is the correct interpretation of the film (yes, I saw it, so you don’t have to). But it does appear that Barbie’s filmmaker Greta Gerwig is onto the gender divide between young people today:

Chaser—where’s the patriarchal oppression here: