#Kinda wandered a bit there but there is drunk history style essay in there somewhere

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i love lisa frankensetin truly movie of the year instant favorite i will show it to my children and say 'they dont make em like this anymore'

Anyway something something the fact that lisa's bedroom is pink and she keeps sentimental objects and she wants a love story to happen to her and she wants to be wanted belies her goth badass transformation in a neat way

While she is desperate for agency after her trauma, and draws from goth counterculture music and dress to express that agency, she still deep down just really wants the kind of pink hearts cuteness that every teenage girl wants. And she doesnt lose that feeling and i think eventually learns to embrace it along with the dark streak. She belts out reo speedwagon while also loving the cure. She uses her ability to be flirtatious to lure a kid to his death. She does not flinch from gore but never actually commits murder herself.

She is an embodiment of the subversion of femininity - teen femininity in particular. Much like the pop cultural asymilation of sukeban of 80's Japan, she turns the expectations of the boys into a powerful weapon to use against them and express her true desires by dressing as differently to taffy (the emblematic 'popular girl) as she can adopting the edgier and less refined goth/punk look which was in itself popularized away from its original manifestation as a counterculture.