Everybody’s been talking about the 2024 Academy Award nominations, even if only to mock those who care about such frivolous things — but mostly because of the controversy surrounding the phenomenally popular film Barbie. The movie received eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for America Ferrera, and Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling’s funny turn as Ken, but none for the always delightful Margot Robbie in the title role or for Greta Gerwig’s directing. Apparently, as tens of thousands of online fulminators have pointed out, this travesty proves the film’s whole feminist argument: that the real world is a foul patriarchal sty designed to favor the Kens while the Barbies are shoved aside.

Famous people protesting this outrage were strange bedfellows indeed: Ryan Gosling, Billie Jean King, Stephen King, John Stamos, and Bette Midler, among others. Most astonishing was the way Hillary Clinton weighed in on Twitter/X, and Instagram, as if she were running a very belated campaign announcement:

Greta & Margot,

While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.

You’re both so much more than Kenough.#HillaryBarbie

 — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 24, 2024