Greta Gerwig’s Barbie came out of its record-breaking opening weekend with even more impressive stats, breaking The Dark Knight’s Monday box office record for Warner Bros. With widespread acclaim oozing from the majority of those who actually watched the film in theaters — take CinemaBlend’s own review of the Margot Robbie comedy, for instance — one might think it has earned universal goodwill to this point. But that’s certainly not the case for a subsection of the population who has been up in arms about the film’s feminist views and the highly satirical take on patriarchal society, and The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg clapped back at such offbase criticisms.
A couple of days after paying respects to The View’s supportive late co-creator Bill Geddie, the women of The View shifted their focus to Barbie fever, showing a montage of hyperbolic criticism in clips from Fox News, Ben Shapiro and more, basically claiming Margot Robbie’s character and all of her Barbieland friends are here to destroy America, all younger generations, male masculinity, etc. Whoopi Goldberg followed up the montage in a bamboozled state, and voiced her disbelief that this is the movie garnering the most hate from overtly politicized crowds. In her words:
