This is a Ken’s world but it ain’t nothin' without a Barbie girl.
In an interview with60 Minutes, Baumbach and his life/creative partnerGreta Gerwigdiscuss the Barb phenom and the bro backlash.
“I felt men could take it,” Baumbah says when asked about these hurt man-feelings.

Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in ‘Barbie’.Warner Bros. Pictures
“I mean, come on.”
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Bill Maher, for one,was not going to come on.
Because a world in which women walk permanently in tip-toe is really pushing for verisimilitude.
Marc Maronwas a bit more blunt.
I mean, Jesus Christ, what a bunch of f—ing insecure babies."