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

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."