Barbie’s critics are the real snowflakes

Hold on: I thought it was the wimpish new left that loses its rag over ‘offensive’ culture. Aren’t snowflakes usually self-styled radicals, with multicoloured hair and pronouns in their bios, who rage like overgrown children against movies or books or jokes that rattle their fragile sensibilities? Yet now it’s men on the right, blokes who no doubt consider themselves resilient, who are bawling like babies over a film they don’t like.

The film is the Barbie movie. The men are Ben Shapiro, Piers Morgan and an army of unwoke bros on the internet. They’re all flapping with fury over Barbie’s ‘man-hating agenda’. The speed with which these blokeish critics of snowflakery have themselves turned into snowflakes – getting swept up in a blizzard of fainthearted horror over a film they don’t like – has been extraordinary.