just finished magnolia parks and WOW it’s been a long time since i’ve read something that was so overhyped….like that was downright terrible and also bj ballantine i’m under your bed sleep with one eye open your name is stupid i hate you
a woman will be 28 or whatever and all the 24 year olds are in shock like “no fucking way I seriously couldn’t tell. you don’t look near death at all”
the fact that the first female human experience barbie goes through is being self conscious and experiencing sexual harassment mirrors how growing up as a girl one day you’re okay and the next all of a sudden you feel bad about your appearance and are receiving unwanted advances is something that can be so fucking important to be recognized in film
I don’t know how to say this intelligently but something is really bothering me about the reviews for the barbie movie complaining that she didn’t go deeply enough into feminist critique? Like,,, it’s the Barbie movie. It’s not Feminist Theory 402. Also, it’s a movie about how women are expected to be spectacular at everything they do and how exhausting it can be to be the representative for all women when you’re just one of them and people really watched that and turned around to tell Greta Gerwig that the movie wasn’t enough because it wasn’t perfect?
It was heartfelt and funny and silly and hot pink and that is enough!! Where is the media literacy!! You all are legitimately hurting my heart with this trash take!! It’s fine to not like the movie but how come movies about the “male experience” can be about SOME men but movies about women have to be the balm AND rage AND catharsis AND call to action for every woman ever??? It’s the Barbie movie!!! Not Gloria Steinem’s latest manifesto!!! Let it fucking be!!!
greta gerwig is so fucking amazing. barbie is about BEING HUMAN. it’s about growing up, its about being a woman and about being a man, it’s about what it feels like to be a little girl and see your male friends lose their innocence and start “turning into men”, it’s about being a mother but also a daughter, it’s about not letting the patriarchy take half your humanity away and about how it hurts all genders. it’s about not feeling good enough because as a woman you feel like you have to be exceptional or else you’re useless. it’s about accepting that we can be mediocre sometimes and it’s fine. it’s about acceptance of yourself and others, it’s about acknowledging your privilege and doing the right thing, it’s about empathy and love but also about resentment. it’s about coming to terms with the fact that even though being a human hurts so bad we still want to live and create experiences and FEEL.
