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Shakira’s Sons Thought ‘Barbie’ Was ‘Emasculating,’ and She Kinda Agrees

Shakira offered her mixed feelings on Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie,' saying her songs thought it was 'emasculating' and adding that she kind of agreed.

Shakira shared her belated Barbie take in a new interview with Allure, saying she agreed “to a certain extent” with her two sons, who found the movie “emasculating.” The musician was asked about Greta Gerwig ’s hit film during a discussion about women’s empowerment and her hope that her upcoming album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran( Women No Longer Cry) would “help women discover their own strengths.” While that’s arguably kind of the whole point of Barbie, Shakira said her sons “absolutely hated the movie,” adding, “They felt that it was emasculating. As for Gerwig, the filmmaker certainly didn’t deny the film had a feminist bent, but as she explained in an interview with Rolling Stone, her goal was ultimately to make a “humanist” movie that examined the way “any kind of hierarchical power structure that moves in any direction isn’t so great.”

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