The far right is constantly warning that if you go woke, you’ll go broke. But when it comes to the new Barbie movie, they couldn’t be more wrong.
Barbie, which follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbie Land to explore the real world, earned a whopping $162 million in its opening weekend, Variety reported Monday. This is the biggest opening weekend of the year, and the biggest opening weekend for a female director ever.
The film had already made $22.3 million at the domestic box office from Thursday previews, the biggest preview haul of the summer. It blew the previous record of $17.5 million (made by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May) out of the water.
“Woke” means the same thing as “cancel culture” means the same thing as “socialism” means the same thing as “critical race theory” means the same thing as “shariah law” means the same thing “cultural Marxism” etc. etc. etc.
The meaning is, “I declare this thing is bad in a way that I am incapable of actually substantiating”.