I am going to keep it simple. According to what is out there, the men in the Barbie movie are either simps, or perverts and predators. Now if you do not identify with being a simp, or being a perv, then I don’t know what exactly you are doing watching that caricature of masculinity?
In my opinion, you should give as little of your shekels to Hollywood if you are a self respecting man. Hollywood hates your ass. Do you identify with orbiting Ken, who is permanently in the Friendzone? Or do you identify with groping perverts on the Venice Beach? How can you tolerate this utter mockery of your own gender? Only modern women would laugh at such denigration of man.
Women are now using the Barbie movie as a litmus test in dating:
The articles go something like, “I took my husband to see the Barbie movie, and he liked it“ If your girlfriend likes the Barbie movie, be a Chad and dump her, there is plenty more fish in the sea. In 2016, the litmus test for insufferable Karens was if they disliked Donald Trump, in 2023 it is the Barbie movie, pink cancer that needs to be avoided like plague.
Insomniac Resurrected 
The movie theatre close to my house is playing that shit. Never gave a flying fuck about that movie lol. That said, I wanna use this as a chance to bring up something: the difference between Western and Chinese attitude on gender relationship. Remember we’ve talked about the whole “lack of problem-solving mentality” and the problem of “we must make them pay” attitude? I think some of which may be due to some cultural difference. Let’s start with the definition of Peter Pan Syndrome. Here’s the American way of going about the topic:
https://drnathanbrandon.com/what-is-peter-pan-syndrome/
This one is actually one of the articles where I find it a bit more sensible, as it does talk about the correlation between middle-class upbringing and Peter Pan Syndrome. That said, the author is quick to pin it onto men and talk about how it’s mostly a guy thing. Well, that’s about as good as Western approach can get. Now let’s look at Chinese approach (be noted, the name 李珩丹, or Li Hengdan is most likely a female name. It was likely written by a Chinese woman).
http://static.nfapp.southcn.com/content/201611/07/c171867.html
“医学和心理学上把公主病当做一种精神性和心理性疾病，学名是“彼得潘症候群”。Translation: today’s psychology treats “princess syndrome” (a common terms within China. It basically describes the daydreaming little bitch I’ve been mentioning a lot about) as a form of mental and psychological disorder, formally known as “Peter Pan Syndrome”. Basically, Miss Li has single-handedly destroyed Dr Nathan Brandon’s argument on Peter Pan Syndrome being mostly a guy thing. She be like “a guy thing huh? Guy thing my ass!”
It doesn’t stop there. Honestly, if you read it through, you can tell this Miss Li is being…rather objective about the topic of gender relationship. She roasted both radical feminist with princess syndrome and “toxic masculinity” equally. She has mentioned about how there are two types of princesses: the controlling ones who literally wanna control their men’s lives, and the dependency ones where they basically want a father/maid/an ATM card rather than a real man. Then this is where it gets better:
“不过，本文讨论的公主病，侧重的并不是先天性或生物性因素导致的公主病，而是作为一种社会学现象的公主病，即某些女性公主病的形成，与我们的社会环境有着怎样的联系？”
“But, in this article, I’m not going to talk about the biological or genetic factor behind princess syndrome, but the social phenomenon. In another words, is there some social environmental factors behind the princess syndrome?”…exactly what I was trying to talk about.
首当其冲的是，男权思想。在古代封建的男权社会，其规则是君君臣臣父父子子，女性就是得三从四德，女人只能是男人的附庸，在各方面的权利上，女性遭到了各种不公平的对待，受尽了折磨。不过，当男性以性别压制女性时，他们也必然被自己的性别特征所绑架。著名性学家李银河指出，如果男女不平等，不仅是女性受压迫，男性也会受压迫。
“First of all, the patriarchal thinking. In the patriarchal feudalist society, the rules tend to favor men. (the rest are…well, Miss Li is a she after all), and women could only follow the social expectation and become men’s maid. In many aspects, women were treated unfairly and got screwed over pretty bad. BUT, when men do that to women, they’re also the victim of their own social expectation. A famous sexologist, Li Yinghe, has pointed out how when there’s an inequality between males and females, not only females are the victims, but males also have it bad too”. Well, for a she, Miss Li seems to be rather rational.
Then she went on about the basic concept of responsibility and how when the social consensus favor one side way too much, the ones who’re favored also tend to be miserable too…which coincide with my observation of men become more angry, bitter and overall aggressive and women become more miserable despite both laws and media favors them and today’s women enjoy the highest level of physical comfort ever known to mankind. And here she talks about a term she created…”直女癌” or “toxic femineity”, as opposed to “直男癌” or “toxic masculinity”, where she shitted on today’s new generation, western style Chinese feminists HARD (both me and you probably know about that new style of feminists in China and other parts of Asia).
“直男癌大家都听过，直男的迷之自信，自大霸道而不自知，喜欢对女性评头论足，对女性有种种不平等的苛责和要求。与之相对的就是直女癌。她们无限放大男性的责任，对男性的要求是一二三四五六七什么都要做到，而女人只要跟随内心、放纵天性，等着“男友+奴仆+爸爸”式男人来宠爱就好。直女癌最喜欢打着女权主义的旗号，可她们的女权，并不是权利平等的权，而是霸权的权。她们口口声声说，我们要平等要自由，可她们只索取、不付出，一旦面对责任，她们就会搬出这一套说辞：女人要做自己，女人不要委屈自己做不想做的事，谁规定女人一定要承担责任的？你要敢顶一句，立马“大男子主义”“直男癌”的帽子盖过来。
多少公主病患者，就是被这些微博大V和微信营销号熏陶出来的，一点独立自主精神没有，反倒把自己活成了一自以为是的“小公主”。你还真以为你读着郭敬明的文字“你要相信世界上一定有你的爱人……他一定会找到你，你要等”，唱着周杰伦的《公主病》，然后一边使劲作动不动一哭二闹三上吊，就真有一个宠你爱你的白马王子驾着七彩祥云来接你啦？
韩剧都不敢这么拍！“
” Everyone here may have heard of toxic masculinity. The form of masculinity that’s based on arrogance, egoism and a lack of self-awareness. They love to criticize women unfairly. But the other end of extreme would be toxic femineity. They (women with toxic femineity) love to keep adding responsibility to men, and want men to meet all their demands, and all women have to do is to follow their heart and desire, waiting for “boyfriend + maids + father” type of men (in English, we call them mega-simp) to spoil them rotten. Toxic femineity tend to go along with the banner and slogan of feminism, but their ideas of women’s rights is not about any form of equal rights, but about some form of superiority over men. They always talk about they want freedom and equality, but they just want to take and never pay. Whenever they face responsibilities, they’ll say: “we women need to be good to ourselves instead of making our lives miserable by doing things we don’t wanna do. Who said women need to take responsibility?”. If you dare to say anything back, you’ll be met with come backs such as “male chauvinist”, “toxic masculinity”, pretty much immediately.
For many women with princess syndrome, they listen to too much bullshit on Weibo and WeChat (she didn’t use the term bullshit, but it’s similar meaning. She was talking about some shit related to feminism she has observed on Chinese webspace). They lack any sense of independence and critical-thinking skills, as they really view themselves as some sort of “little princess”. Do you think by reading Guo Jingming’s (a Chinese writer) writings of “as long as you believe someone who will love you, they will always find you, all you have to do is to wait”, and sing Jay Chou’s “Princess Syndrome” (contrary to the suggestion of the name, it’s actually pretty big of a simp song. Almost on Drake’s level), and then go nuts, acting dramatic and all that, you will find your dreamed princess who will love you and spoil you?
Not even Korean dramas are that cheesy!”
All in all, good luck on trying to find articles like this within today’s Western world…late 2000s? I wouldn’t be too surprised. Early 2010s? Possible too. From around 2014 and onward? Keep dreaming buddy, lol. This may also indicate something seriously wrong with Western mentality; let’s face it, a lot of it is built on a weird form of egoism…a really well hidden one but it’s there, and a belief that the West will never fall as well as democracy suits all countries. Besides the democracy part, I’d say a lot of those may lead to a mentality of “we must make them pay!” whenever things don’t go the way how the West want it. Now, they’re like “we must make Russians pay!”, “we must make Chinese pay!”, “we must make Iranians pay!”. It’s kind of a double-edged sword, as it may be the reason why the West, especially the Anglos, were able to exercise such level of dominance around the world so effectively for so long. But at the same time, the negative effects include…well, take a look at today’s sectarianism within Western societies regard of gender, race and political affiliation.
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Personally, I am a Peter Pan, I come back home from work, work on my astrology project that is coming along smoothly and after I do little bit of work on calculations, I play RPGs on the PC. I have no wife, no kids to take care of, just an elderly mom. Life offers me no choice really.
China does not have a culture of political correctness, where people discussing these issues have to always cow-tow towards women. Women in the West are beyond criticism and any critique of women is automatically labeled misogyny. Women in the West are so used to this treatment that they react with hostility to any man making whatever uncomfortable remark. The women are used to simps giving them everything, and many women take full advantage of this.
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What you’ve described is not exactly Peter Pan imo. True Peter Pan has minimal sense of responsibility, enjoying being served, has a very black-and-white way of looking at everything and lack any urge to dig deep into things. True Peter Pan is a follower and they pride themselves of being unique when all they do is using some other big guys’ brain as their own. Actually, just go on Reddit or play RuneScape long enough and go to any anime con or anime discussion board where they take fandom as serious as the current inflation in US and EU. You can find a whole world worth of Peter Pan on there.
As far as no sense of PC, I think I’ve heard this from Anatoly Kharlin I believe, about how all Western right wing talk about is what’s considered as common sense stuffs in Russia. I think he’s onto something. I mean, they’re fed up with the complete nonsensical bullshit within today’s Western society, yet these very same right wingers just have to go nuts over shits and sometimes I can’t help but wanna tell them to chill the fuck out. And if talking about that and going nuts is all they can offer, then I don’t think they’re anything relevant. You know shits wrong when you have the likes of Andrew Tate talking about some aged old shit from manosphere and caused such level of controversy. Perhaps the Western world is just too far gone.
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Manosphere stuff always created controversy. The MGTOW tag was demonetized on YouTube, Esther Vilar’s book was banned from sales on Amazon. It was a matter of time before Andrew Tate is canceled. His shit was like a comedy skit at the expense of modern women but that was enough to get him shut down. Feminists and gynocentric simps hold completely the reins of acceptable discourse in Western society.
I would not idealize Russia, MGTOW exists in Russia, divorce rate is high in Russia, and the women there are often just as insufferable as their Western counterparts. Luckily, Russia does not suffer from political correctness as the West but gynocentrism, simping, and women exploiting men also exists there.
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