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Now let me start by saying that i recomend barbie very much, that being said, im gonna get ravaged by you people cuz i didnt think barbie was a woke film. Already saw it and while yes its message is feminist, its not shoehorned, doesnt try to pander to audiences with forced diversity where it doesnt make sense, its very self aware, has good writing in that it has well writen characters and they and the plot dont feel like the writers wish fullfilment power fantasy, and the message at end isnt even that left leaning imho since it doesnt dive that much on a certaing thing i thought they were hinting at and seems to be aware of it but at the end it doesnt really take it to light, thought i may be wrong on the end part since thats more on a personal level to me and i wont discus it here due to spoilers.
I think you are using a very right-wing definition of "woke" to make your point here.
It feels like you are saying that something can't be "woke" without that having a negative connotation, which isn't really the meaning of Woke outside of those conservative circles.
I would counter that if you use the more traditional definition (as I think was the spirit of the OP) then it takes on a much broader meaning that isn't definitively negative or positive (though it is typically seen as positive in progressive circles)
In that case I think it's more than fair to call this movie "woke" as it is specifically dealing with a long-standing traditional product (stereotypical gender norms/etc in Barbie dolls) and coming at it with a more modern progressive angle.
No it doesn't. It means the same thing to most people that it has always meant.
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/americans-divided-whether-woke-compliment-or-insult
The right just has so much insane propaganda about it that you've been convinced most people fell for it, which they haven't.
That's cool, you should specify from the onset that your experience comes from a place outside of the actual country where the "woke" culture war originated and is mainly happening, and you should still link stats to demonstrate that the majority of people there have a misunderstanding of what the word means like you claimed. Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, and most people in the country driving the "woke" culture war still know what the word means.