Barbie's Allan Is One Of My New Favourite Portrayals Of Nontraditional Masculinity
I find the number of non-binary people hailing Allan as a non-binary icon hilarious, but not in a ‘ha ha that’s silly’ way, more of a ‘ha ha I get it’ way. Allan is the outsider, fitting in nowhere, and there’s only one of him. He breaks the fourth wall and responds to the narrator, in a movie where nobody else does. He wants to escape the world built for him to find a place for himself where he belongs, and that’s highly relatable for a lot of queer people....