Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie has a feminist speech about the struggles women face every day. Naturally, some folks have come to criticize the monologue—here’s why they’re wrong. BarbieTheMovie
, I find this comparison unfair too. The “cool girl” speech is another original, woman-penned monologue that is specifically about fitting into the image men have created.’s monologue, on the other hand, is about simply existing as a woman in a patriarchal society. Just because both speeches are from female characters talking about the struggles women face does not mean they are connected.
Consider the context of who Gloria is giving this speech to in the film. Her explanation of the difficulties of womanhood isn’t spoken to a room full of women who, let’s be honest, already know all of this to be true. Gloria is teaching this to both the Barbies, who have no idea about the pressures of the real world, and her daughter, Sasha—who applauds her mother as soon as she’s done speaking.
But let’s not diminish the power of this monologue itself, which is not just about womanhood in general. Rather, Gloria is unpacking the struggles in between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood for girls. Girls grow up with Barbies, who have perfect figures and whatever job title they want, and do it all with a smile plastered on their face. In the real world, though, keeping that perfect figure, that smile, and those jobs can be way harder than what the Barbies are used to.
Mothers have to juggle inspiring their girls to be their truest selves while also being honest about the way the world is set up to be sexist. Life isn’t always Barbie-style perfect—and yet, without Barbies to help show girls that they can be astronauts, writers, teachers, they may grow up believing in society’s insistence that they can’t be independent.
, a 1994 non-fiction bestseller written by psychologist Mary Pipher. The book—which, having read it before watching the film, definitely added to my“They’re funny and brash and confident, and then they just—stop,” Gerwig toldrelease. The arc that Barbie has in the movie is an awful lot like the transition a young woman undergoes between childhood and adulthood.
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