‘Barbie’ Music Boss Mark Ronson Trolls Bill Maher for Bashing the Film as ‘Man-Hating’ While Many Others ‘Enjoy a F—ing Magnificent Comedy’

Mark Ronson roasted Bill Maher on social media over his response to Barbie, for which Ronson served as music producer and oversaw the films original soundtrack. Maher slammed Barbie as man-hating and preachy and criticized the scene in which Barbie (Margot Robbie) confronts the Mattel board of executives, which is depicted as 12 men in the film.

Maher noted the scene is a Zombie Lie because the Mattel board actually has 7 men and 5 women on it in real life, although he failed to mention the Barbie movie is not based on real life and is actually a satirical fantasy in which a plastic doll comes to life.

We come to this place for magic, Ronson wrote in response to Maher, evoking Nicole Kidmans beloved AMC Theatres ad. We come to AMC theaters to laugh, to cry, to care and to furiously google Mattel board configuration while others are trying to enjoy a fucking magnificent comedy.

In Mahers original post, the television personality and political commentator wrote: OK, Barbie: I was hoping it wouldnt be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie alas, it was all three. What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it (tax cuts for the rich increase revenues, e.g.); OR something that used to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend its still true. Barbie is this kind of #ZombieLie.

Maher appears to be upset with the film for not depicting the Mattel board as it really is in 2023,but, again, the film is a fantasy movie.

I know, I know, How could I know about the patriarchy, I AM a man! That argument is so old and so silly, Maher continued in his post. Of course, none of us can know exactly what others go through life, but I can see the world around me, and I can read data. The real Mattel board is a pretty close mirror of the country, where 45% of the 449 board seats filled last year in Fortune 500 companies were women. Truth is, Im not the one whos out of step Im living in the year were living in. Barbie is fun, I enjoyed it but it IS a Zombie Lie.

Mahers complaints were not far off from many conservative figures who also condemned Barbie. Podcaster Matt Walsh, for instance, called the movie the most aggressively anti-man, feminist propaganda fest ever put to film. These criticisms previously drew ire from Marc Maron, who praised Barbie as a masterpiece and told off the men who are outraged over the movie.

The fact that certain men took offense to the point where they, you know, tried to build a grift around it in terms of their narrative is right wing [explicative], Maron said. Its so embarrassing for them. I mean, so embarrassing for them. Any dude that cant take those hits in that movie, theyve really got to look in their pants and decide what theyre made of. I mean, Jesus Christ, what a bunch of fucking insecure babies.

Barbie is now playing in theaters nationwide from Warner Bros.

We come to this place for magic. We come to AMC theaters to laugh, to cry, to care and to furiously google mattel board configuration while others are trying to enjoy a f***king magnificent comedy https://t.co/EJR9u4kxeC

Mark Ronson (@MarkRonson) August 9, 2023