OK, "Barbie": I was hoping it wouldn't be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie – alas, it was all three. What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it (tax cuts for the rich increase revenues, e.g.); OR something that USED to be…

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) August 7, 2023

Maher concluded with a message to the woke liberals who are pushing this film.

“I know, I know, ‘How could I know about the patriarchy, I AM a man!’” he wrote. “That argument is so old and so silly. Of course, none of us can know exactly what others go through life, but I can see the world around me, and I can read data. The real Mattel board is a pretty close mirror of the country, where 45% of the 449 board seats filled last year in Fortune 500 companies were women.”

“Truth is, I’m not the one who’s out of step – I’m living in the year we’re living in,” Maher concluded. “Barbie is fun, I enjoyed it – but it IS a #ZombieLie. And people who don’t go along with zombie lies did not take some red pill – just staying true to CURRENT reality. Let’s live in the year we’re living in! Hi Ken!!!”

[At least Maher watched it first. I haven’t seen it, but my granddaughters (a teen and an adult, sigh) loved it. I’ll withhold judgment until I watch it myself, but I’ll probably wait for it to come to a streaming service on which I already subscribe. I’m not really the target audience. — Ed]