Shakira Fans Are Mad At Her Barbie Movie 'Emasculating' Reaction

In what shouldn't come as a surprise to Shakira, her fans are attacking her reaction to the Barbie movie and her agreeing with her own sons that the movie was too "emasculating." 

In a new interview with Allure that was released Monday, Shakira was asked if she watched the movie and what she thought about the message it sent to men, women, boys and girls. 

"My sons absolutely hated it. They felt that it was emasculating," the 47-year-old pop goddess told the magazine. "And I agree, to a certain extent. I'm raising two boys. I want ‘em to feel powerful too [while] respecting women. I like pop culture when it attempts to empower women without robbing men of their possibility to be men, to also protect and provide."

That seems like a rather simple idea. But, because it's 2024, Shakira's reaction to Barbie was immediately blasted on Instagram. 

"I believe in giving women all the tools and the trust that we can do it all without losing our essence, without losing our femininity," Shakira continued. "I think that men have a purpose in society and women have another purpose as well. We complement each other, and that complement should not be lost."

"Just because a woman can do it all doesn’t mean she should?"

"Why not share the load with people who deserve to carry it, who have a duty to carry it as well?"

To be fair, I haven't seen the movie, so I'm not going to opine on the war of words that has flared up over the last 24 hours. All I can do is show you the war front that has opened up against Shakira taking a stand against the Barbie movie. 

She didn't love it and that has caused a flood of emotions from the toxic masculinity fighters. 

"Dear Shakira, the movie doesn't focus on men or masculinity in general but the toxic kind. You don't have any problem in banalizing toxic masculinity? We are against toxic masculinity, not against masculinity in general," Maxroy.hair wrote on Instagram. "When we talk about dangereous driving, do we talk against driving in general ? No, against the dangereous kind, same for toxic masculinity. If you generalize being against toxic masculinity is being against all masculinity then you let toxic masculinity continue to exist. Think about that."

The hits from the Barbie backers just kept coming. 

"The movie didn’t rob men of masculinity, especially since we don’t need men to protect and provide anymore. We can do that ourselves. In fact, you have a whole album alleging that. Was that all fake?" wrote a woman who goes by Mrs. Oshea. 

It was more of the same over on Twitter where the toxic masculinity experts really let her have it. 

Another day, another argument society will forget in 24 hours. Shakira just happens to be the latest focus of the mobs.