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Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-07-20): Maddy Hamilton, 32, and Rhisa Muse, 31, said they had come to support "Barbie" and director Greta Gerwig, while also having an excuse to get their group of friends together for a girl’s night. They said they were excited for the film even if, earlier in the day, they had read a review of "Barbie" that claimed the film lacked depth. [...] Shrouded in Barbie’s iconic, hyperstylized pink, the movie takes on serious and systemic societal issues, examining the complexity and contradictions of modern womanhood. As Barbie makes her way in the real world, she must grapple with the overwhelming emotion and discomfort of being human, as well as a patriarchal system that would make her a secondary character in her own world. While Ken’s "himbo" character is the source of much of the film’s comedy, "Barbie" gives Ken humanity and vulnerability, all with the intent of showing how his character also suffers under the pressures of the patriarchy. [...] Still, "Barbie continues to be a fraught icon," Hannah McCann, senior lecturer of cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, said in an email.
Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-07-21): Who knew that "He’s just Ken" was more than a marketing joke? The Barbie movie centers, of course, on its titular character played by Margot Robbie. But Ken (Ryan Gosling) plays an important role in the drama as he wrangles with the notion that he’s long been an accessory in Barbie’s dream life more than an equal partner. I’ll say the quiet part out loud: Even though this is a movie that leans heavily into a feminine aesthetic and is, as writer-director Greta Gerwig told me during an interview for TIME’s Barbie cover story, a film at its core for mothers and daughters, Ken has the most intriguing and funniest part to play, offering a searing social commentary on modern man’s insecurities dressed up in bubble-gum pink. [...] Gerwig isn’t the first director to wrestle with this problem in recent years. Watching Barbie, I couldn’t help but think of last year’s Olivia Wilde movie Don’t Worry Darling. These films seemingly have nothing to do with one another. One’s a musical romp, the other a sci-fi inspired psychodrama. [...] Ryan Gosling’s portrayal of Ken in Barbie is lighter and funnier than these more serious takes on the resentful man who works to repress the women around him. Heyman is right that we empathize with Ken when he’s ignored by Barbie and root for him to find his meaning.
Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-07-11): Ryan Gosling and Greta Gerwig on how Ken became the subversive center of ‘Barbie’ When Ryan Gosling first got the screenplay to "Barbie," the title page read "Barbie and Ken" with the "and Ken" crossed out. It was the first sign that this particular script — co-written by the film’s director, Greta Gerwig, working with her life partner and frequent collaborator, Noah Baumbach — would be full of untamed wit. [...] Gerwig and Baumbach, who co-wrote the screenplays to the Baumbach-directed "Frances Ha" and "Mistress America," did extensive research into the history of Barbie, including such discontinued characters as Barbie’s pregnant friend Midge and Earring Magic Ken. (The "Lady Bird" and "Little Women" filmmaker was brought onto the project by Robbie, who as a producer obtained the rights from toy company Mattel through her company LuckyChap Entertainment.)
Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2024-01-26): In this case, the "thing that’s just begun" was Barbie receiving eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday. Writer-director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie were nominated for writing and producing, respectively, with the movie’s screenplay and best picture nods. But Robbie wasn’t nominated for best actress and Gerwig was not nominated for best director. [...] The New York Times helped lead the charge with "Barbie Is Bad. There, I Said It," an essay that seemed rather nervous and defensive about having a potentially heretical non-Times-y opinion, yet nonetheless made a solid case for the blowback being overwrought: "Every time a woman fails to win an accolade doesn’t mean failure for womanhood. Surely women aren’t so pitiable as to need a participation certificate every time we try. We’re well beyond the point where a female artist can’t be criticized on the merits and can’t be expected to handle it as well as any man." And as for the film, "There were no actual stakes, no plot to follow in any real or pretend world that remotely made sense. In lieu of genuine laughs, there were only winking ha-has at a single joke improbably stretched into a feature-length movie," and that "For those who hailed it, there was a manic quality to the Barbie enthusiasm, less an ‘I enjoyed’ and more of an ‘I endorse.'"
Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-07-18): If you’ve been following Hey Alma’s coverage of the upcoming "Barbie" movie, you know that the film is not wanting for fabulous Jewish actors. Hari Nef, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ana Cruz Kayne, Rhea Perlman and maybe even Barbie’s Jewish inventor, Ruth Handler are among the ensemble cast of Barbies, Kens and humans. However, in a recent interview, director Greta Gerwig revealed that Timothée Chalamet was almost in "Barbie." [...] On the one hand, there doesn’t seem to be any harm done with this cut. "Barbie" is still shaping up to be the movie of the summer sans Ronan and Chalamet. Yet, on the other hand, there’s been catastrophic harm done to me, personally. Forget "Dune and "Wonka." (Seriously, what is the "Wonka" trailer?!) As a rabid consumer of Jewish pop culture, I am bereft to miss out on seeing the biggest Jewish heartthrob of our generation grease up his tiny abs and become "just Ken."
Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-08-22): I’m a little late to Barbie Mania, but I finally saw this unique film written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, and directed by Greta Gerwig. I adored Gerwig’s Little Women (2019), and so I had high hopes for this movie. Immediately after leaving the cinema and even while watching the movie, my brain was bustling with opinions and my heart was fluttering with feelings. Firstly, I loved the set and costume design. The intricacy and attention to detail in this movie were immaculate. The narration by Helen Mirren was beautiful, and it was perfectly cast. It felt like Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were born to play Barbie and Ken. As a woman of color and a black woman, I loved seeing a black Barbie as president (Issa killed it). It was also great to see another black Barbie (Alexandra Shipp) as a Nobel prize winner and author — highly inspirational, even to me as a grown black woman. I completely adored America Ferrera and Ariana Greenblatt’s characters, Gloria and Sasha, as the token family responsible for stereotypical Barbie.
Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2024-01-31): Gosling noted, "But there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film." [...] While it is a great loss that Gerwig was not nominated for the coveted Best Director award, Barbie (2023) has been nominated for Best Picture, another coveted award. In addition, the film has been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design, Best Supporting Actress, and two nominations for Original Song — one which includes "I’m Just Ken." In this sense, Robbie and Gerwig have both still been nominated in one of the top categories with consideration to Robbie’s producing credits and Gerwig’s screenplay writing. So, should we really be upset over the competition? [...] Paskin, W. (2023, July 11). Greta Gerwig’s "Barbie" Dream Job. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/magazine/greta-gerwig-barbie.html
Claim: The New York Times reported that “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig was unhappy with movie character Ken into an icon (Viral Post, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2024-01-24): The running gag in "Barbie" is that Margot Robbie’s titular character is "everything," while co-star Ryan Gosling plays "just Ken." But this week, it was Gosling who earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor, while the movie’s linchpin female duo — Robbie and director Greta Gerwig — were snubbed. [...] "But there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally celebrated film," he said. "No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius. To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement." [...] "So proud of my man," she wrote. "He created this completely original, hilarious, heartbreaking, now iconic character and took it all the way to Oscars. So beyond proud to be this Ken’s Barbie."
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2019-05-21): While Iowa’s incarcerated population is disproportionately black, a 2018 report from the state’s Department of Human Rights estimated that around 25 percent of those incarcerated are black, not 40 percent. About 4 percent of the population in Iowa is black, according to Census Bureau data.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2016-12-09): Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population — 576,000 people — are behind bars with no compelling public safety reason, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The first-of-its-kind analysis provides a blueprint for how the country can drastically cut its prison population while still keeping crime rates near historic lows. [...] African Americans make up roughly 13 percent of the U.S. population but 37 percent of the nation’s prisoners.1 People with dreams and aspirations suffer in airtight cells of prison and poverty. But the injustice does not end there. More than half of formerly incarcerated Americans are unemployed a year after release. Communities of color are over policed, over-prosecuted, over-incarcerated and yet underemployed.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2016-07-10): It is a well-established fact that minorities are overrepresented in the prison population. About 58 percent of all sentenced inmates in 2013 were black or hispanic, yet the two groups make up just about 30 percent of the total population. [...] Minorities are disproportionately represented in the prison population, and some slightly dated research indicates poor people are, as well. Evidence seems to show that black people are more likely to be arrested for drug crime than white people, despite being equally likely to use and less likely to sell drugs.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2019-04-30): The racial and ethnic makeup of U.S. prisons continues to look substantially different from the demographics of the country as a whole. In 2017, blacks represented 12% of the U.S. adult population but 33% of the sentenced prison population. Whites accounted for 64% of adults but 30% of prisoners. And while Hispanics represented 16% of the adult population, they accounted for 23% of inmates.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2024-08-09): Data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) shows that an overwhelming majority of prisoners were either white or Black. The share of the latter fell by 3.5 percent compared to 2011, with Hispanic, Native American or Alaska Native and Asian inmate shares rising by between 0.1 and 1.3 percent. However, around 11 percent of inmates also fell into the category of Other, a broad grouping encompassing everyone that belongs to any race or comes from any background not broken out by the statisticians at the BJS or that claims a mixed ancestry.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2024-10-09): The criminal justice system continues to incarcerate Black people and other people of color, despite making up a lower national population, at higher rates than White people. American Indians and Alaska Natives were incarcerated at nearly 40 percent higher than the national average. In Montana, Native people make up to 34 percent of the state prison population according to a report titled, "Over-Incarceration of Native Americans: Roots, Inequities and Solutions."
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2020-12-18): The racial disparities in Iowa’s prisons are more extreme than almost anywhere else in the country, with Black Iowans imprisoned at a rate 11 times that of white Iowans. As part of our series of reports on systemic racism in Iowa, IPR examines how Iowa got here and the role that prosecutors play in these disparities. [...] Census numbers show just 4 percent of the state’s population is Black. But as of 2016, 25 percent of incarcerated Iowans were Black. [...] Effectively one in every five Black Iowans in prison was convicted in Black Hawk County alone.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2021-10-18): Iowa’s Black to white prison ratio is no longer the worst in the nation, as it was in 2007. According to the report released by The Sentencing Project, Iowa’s disproportionate rate of incarcerating Black residents now ranks seventh in the country. [...] According to the latest analysis, Black Iowans are incarcerated at 9.3 times the rate of white Iowans, a slight improvement from 2016, when the rate was 11.1 to 1. Still, Black Iowans continue to make up 25 percent of the state’s prison population, despite being just 4 percent of the total population.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2019-09-10): The genesis of the claim appears to be a study -- "Wisconsin’s Mass Incarceration of African American Males: Workforce Challenges for 2013" -- prepared by John Pawasarat and Lois M. Quinn for the Employment and Training Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The report noted that Wisconsin was the worst state in the nation for African American incarceration, at 12.8%, based on 2010 census data. That was nearly double the national average of 6.7%. [...] A 2017 Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service report said: "In 53206, the population is 94 percent black with an average age of about 29. In this, the most incarcerated ZIP code in the country, 47.5 percent of people and two-thirds of children live below the poverty line."
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2021-10-13): Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of White Americans, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project. [...] The report released on Wednesday, found "staggering disproportionalities" among the rates of incarceration of Blacks and Latinx people compared to Whites. In 12 states, more than half of the prison population is Black. And Latinx individuals are incarcerated in state prisons at a rate that is 1.3 times the incarceration rate of Whites, according to the report. The Sentencing Project found that Wisconsin leads the country with the highest rate of Black inmates. One in every 36 Black Wisconsinites are in prison, according to the report.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2023-10-11): New Report Finds Imprisonment Rate of Black Men Has Fallen By Nearly 50% Since 2000, But Pushback Threatens Continued Progress [...] - While all major racial and ethnic groups experienced decarceration, the Black prison population has downsized the most.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2023-04-19): The trend we identify represents a substantial deviation from patterns preceding the pandemic. Before COVID-19, incarcerated Black people accounted for a declining share of the total prison population: roughly 41.6% of people incarcerated in state prisons were Black in March 2013, and by March 2020 this number had fallen to 38.9%—a decline of 2.7 percentage points over seven years. During the height of COVID-19 closures, from March 2020 to November 2020, this percentage increased by 0.9 points, erasing much of the progress over the last decade (Figs. 1b and 2 and Supplementary Fig. 2; see Supplementary Fig. 16 for comparison between effects among non-white versus Black populations). The trend we observe at the national level is reproduced exactly among states with the highest Black and Latino populations, and persists in some form in nearly every other state. [...] a, Percentage of incarcerated population who are Black and white. Note especially that the effect size of the demographic changes during the COVID-19 pandemic are more pronounced in the incarcerated Black population (see Supplementary Fig. 16 for additional comparisons). b, Percentage of incarcerated Latino people. c, Percentage of white, Black and Latino incarcerated populations, normalized by the average value between March 2019 and February 2020. d, Percentage of white, Black and Latino incarcerated populations, normalized by the slope of each curve between March 2019 and February 2020.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2022-12-16): This report details our observations of staggering disparities among Black and Latinx people imprisoned in the United States given their overall representation in the general population. The latest available data regarding people sentenced to state prison reveal that Black Americans are imprisoned at a rate that is roughly five times the rate of white Americans. During the present era of criminal justice reform, not enough emphasis has been focused on ending racial and ethnic disparities systemwide. [...] - Nationally, one in 81 Black adults in the U.S. is serving time in state prison. Wisconsin leads the nation in Black imprisonment rates; one of every 36 Black Wisconsinites is in prison. - In 12 states, more than half the prison population is Black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2024-03-14): It’s no surprise that people of color — who face much greater rates of poverty — are dramatically overrepresented in the nation’s prisons and jails. These racial disparities are particularly stark for Black Americans, who make up 35% of the prison and jail populations but only 14% of all U.S residents.42 The same is true for women, whose incarceration rates have for decades risen faster than men’s, and who are often behind bars because of financial obstacles such as an inability to pay bail. As policymakers continue to push for reforms that reduce incarceration, they should avoid changes that will widen disparities, as has happened with juvenile confinement and with women in state prisons.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2023-03-14): According to a 2016 Brennan Center for Justice report, nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population is incarcerated without any compelling public safety justification.footnote2_ydMfdl6AhhjoAtLsiu19EDt6olUC7cGjNuKrdfcZ—c_xpYVSeuIu17b2Austin et al., How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated?, 7.Incarceration degrades people’s humanity, disrupts their social networks, and causes lifelong social and financial disadvantage through restricted access to education, jobs, and housing.footnote3_p—8PLgRNNOwNoh8BqjPba-YE2UxJqKfhIXcUTwOTPw_wynLbhz5Dq4E3Rebecca Vallas and Sharon Dietrich, One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People With Criminal Records, Center for American Progress, 2014, https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/VallasCriminalRecordsReport.pdf; and Terry-Ann Craigie, Ames Grawert, and Cameron Kimble, Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings: How Involvement With the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality, Brennan Center for Justice, 2020, 6–8, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/conviction-imprisonment-and-lost-earnings-how-involvement-criminal.It also devastates families and communities, disproportionately affecting society’s most marginalized segments.footnote4_9dm00LEhFMoAvcmrnIRsbENKWy1tdPOFVApgcYEN0IY_zzKlPoRTMIqJ4Brian Elderbroom et al., Every Second: The Impact of the Incarceration Crisis on America’s Families, FWD.us, 2018, 21, https://everysecond.fwd.us/downloads/everysecond.fwd.us.pdf.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2016-04-03): If you want to know why Iowa imprisons a larger share of its black residents than almost any other state, mandatory minimum sentencing laws are one place to start, critics say. [...] During a four-decade period, 42 percent of Iowa inmates serving prison time for robbery were black, state data show. [...] In 2007, Iowa had one of the highest rates of incarceration of blacks in the nation, a study by The Sentencing Project showed. Blacks in Iowa were imprisoned at a rate 13.6 times greater than whites, double the national average, the study found.
Claim: Claims that 40 percent of Iowa's incarcerated population is black. (Beto O'Rourke, 2019-05-21)
Evidence (2014-04-30): Enumerating prisoners in this manner dilutes the votes of urban and rural areas that do not have a prison within their jurisdiction. For example, nearly 40 percent of the inmates in Pennsylvania’s state prisons come from Philadelphia, which has no state prisons in its city limits (Elliott-Engel, 2009). For census and redistricting purposes, these Philadelphia citizens—nearly all of whom are black or Latino—are considered residents of the counties where they are imprisoned. These tend to be predominantly white, rural districts.8 [...] Race and ethnicity play a crucial role in these developments. On one level, the disproportionate number of blacks, Hispanics, and other historically disadvantaged groups among the incarcerated, though striking, is not altogether surprising. The social deprivation and spatial isolation of the poor and the less educated, many of whom are members of minority groups living in urban areas, tend to foster criminal acts that result in a prison sentence or other penal sanctions. Members of these groups also are at heightened risk of drawing severe sanctions because of intense state surveillance in their communities (see, e.g., Duneier, 1999; Anderson, 1999; Bourgois, 1995; Wilson, 1968, Chapter 2; Herbert, 1997). The limited legal, social, and other resources available to them once they have become involved in the criminal justice system compound the problem.