THE AMERICA FERRERA SPEECH FROM BARBIE REWRITTEN FOR MEN Do you relate?

Ryan Goaling

Honestly, both monologues hover close to the truth of how capitalism has turned people into anxious, overburdened producers and consumers who exist only to serve the ultra-wealthy. But since part of the oligarch strategy is to pit different genders, races, and social classes against each other in order to hide who’s committing the exploitation, both writers had to make it about gender. A speech about end-stage capitalism would never make it into a mass-marketed film or be distributed by any of the major media outlets. Replace “women” and “men” with “people,” and the speech just writes itself.