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What the fuck part advocates homosexuality?? Qualifier that I haven't seen the movie since it came out, but as I recall....
The entire B-plot is about Ken being absolutely obsessed with Barbie. At no point does Ken consider whether he's actually into another Ken. And Barbie doesn't give a shit about Ken not because she's gay, but because He's Just Ken. That's the fucking joke. I swear none of these idiots have sisters or daughters and have never seen them Play Barbies.
It's a grown woman filmmaker finding the funny in applying adult themes of anxiety and existential crisis upon Stereotypical Barbie and Stereotypical Ken, while all the other Barbies and Kens still live within the rules of Playing Barbies from her youth.
Is it all the pink? The beach bod dudes? Is that where they're finding The Ghey? Perhaps that says more about them than the movie.
Not really. She just doesn't like him. That's it. And "I'm Just Ken" is a song about being happy with yourself and not needing Barbie/someone else to do that.