Eve

Thinking about the final line of barbie this morning. I've seen the criticism that it reads as transphobia, and I think that's entirely fair. It glibly collapses real woman into vagina in a very frustrating way.
But I think there's another reading, which is that real person=meat, and I have to admit that that does resonate with me. I the scene where barbie and Ken talk about not having genitals, the context is about sex, but when barbie actually gets those genitals, it becomes a medical issue. And to be flesh rather than plastic means being fallible, being subject to change, facing agonies of the body, eventually dying.
And this is for sure on my mind because I'm about to start the process of going to see a gyno myself, to have a conversation that can only have a bad ending - because I know something is wrong, and what I don't know is where on a spectrum from mild to chronic to life threatening the answer is going to be. Being a real person means being gross and made of meat and struggling against those facts sometimes.
And I'm not saying my reading is more correct than any other, or that it means there's no problems with the line itself, but. Idk. I haven't really seen this interpretation presented and it was on my mind.

Must be trying to beat malenia the way I've got rivers of blood