{"id":3137,"date":"2024-02-02T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/i-was-puzzled-by-younger-womens-reaction-to-barbie-it-turned-out-gen-z-men-held-the-answer-gaby-hinsliff\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:01:15","slug":"i-was-puzzled-by-younger-womens-reaction-to-barbie-it-turned-out-gen-z-men-held-the-answer-gaby-hinsliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/i-was-puzzled-by-younger-womens-reaction-to-barbie-it-turned-out-gen-z-men-held-the-answer-gaby-hinsliff\/","title":{"rendered":"I was puzzled by younger women\u2019s reaction to Barbie. It turned out Gen Z men held the answer | Gaby Hinsliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where I saw colour and fun, they saw the reflection of something darker: a new generation of men who fear feminism<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift is many things. But she did not, at least until recently, look like the battleground on which an election could be fought.<\/p>\n<p>Though on reflection, maybe it makes a weird kind of sense. Like Donald Trump, whose allies are said to be threatening a remarkably silly-sounding \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/donald-trump-more-popular-taylor-swift-maga-biden-1234956829\/\">holy war<\/a>\u201d against the singer, Swift is an unstoppable cultural phenomenon with a deep hold over the American psyche. She epitomises what many young women want to be \u2013 powerful but joyful, financially independent, patently not in need of a man but having zero trouble getting one \u2013 while he stands for all those threatened by this subversion of the patriarchal order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/02\/younger-women-barbie-gen-z-men-feminism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where I saw colour and fun, they saw the reflection of something darker: a new generation of men who fear feminism Taylor Swift is many things. But she did not, at least until recently, look like the battleground on which an election could be fought. Though on reflection, maybe it makes a weird kind of &#8230; <a title=\"I was puzzled by younger women\u2019s reaction to Barbie. It turned out Gen Z men held the answer | Gaby Hinsliff\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/i-was-puzzled-by-younger-womens-reaction-to-barbie-it-turned-out-gen-z-men-held-the-answer-gaby-hinsliff\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I was puzzled by younger women\u2019s reaction to Barbie. It turned out Gen Z men held the answer | Gaby Hinsliff\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}