Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie

now do you have anything of value to say?

It's not worth a prolonged argument.

I'm just dubious about age being a barrier to extracting maximum enjoyment from anything.

exactly, it's actually a pretty offensive thing to say and then triple down on

In fairness to Aimless, I do appreciate the clarification that he's talking about being too old _right now_, that it's the specific extra years he has on me that make the difference, not the years that I have to make up to get to him. I don't think he's right, but I'm now aware that he's not talking about me, which is always what causes the reflex.

My take on Barbie is that it was very funny

agreed (age 57 here)

My take on Barbie is that people who were children in 1961 (when Barbie was introduced) would like it well enough.

fwiw I think "I'm not the target audience for this" - which is more or less what I took Aimless's post to be saying - is a reasonable thing to say, which doesn't mean you can't enjoy things that aren't targeted at you ofc. at any rate preferable to assuming everything in the world was made for your specific sensibilities and getting angry when something doesn't fit into that.

or someone else doesnt like it