Shakira and her sons think ‘Barbie’ is ‘emasculating’

Shakira, left, said her sons “absolutely hated” the film “Barbie” and found it emasculating. “I like pop culture when it attempts to empower women without robbing men of their possibility to be men, to also protect and provide.” Awards How Margot Robbie overcame a ‘palpable and debilitating’ panic to make ‘Barbie’ In finding the key to making a film about a plastic doll, the idea of an existential crisis took hold. We complement each other, and that complement should not be lost.” When asked if women should have to “do it all,” Shakira replied, “Why not share the load with people who deserve to carry it, who have a duty to carry it as well?” Shakira discussed feminism at length in the interview for Allure’s cover story, saying that her recent music is about “a newborn woman” and connecting with “the woman inside of you.” In what seems to be a departure from her comments about “Barbie,” she spoke about her music video for “Puntería” with Cardi B, in which they inhabit a planet where she says “men are happy to be dominated by women.” The singer-songwriter, whose new album, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, ” was released in late March, is not the only public figure to criticize “Barbie. “There’s not a villain in the movie, and there’s no one who is not deserving of our sympathy or our empathy.” In the same interview, “Barbie’s” star and producer, Margot Robbie, said the overwhelmingly positive response to the film is gratifying.