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thatneoncrisis · 2 months ago

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lumping myself in with women for the sake of conversation about certain pieces of woman focused media because ultimately issues concerning feminism affect me and the experiences that art tries to capture are things that intersect with my life

#not gonna get into the whole Female Socialization thing bc i dont CARE I DONT SHUT UP #but like. i was someones daughter and i was given dolls to play with the whole Barbie Controversy is shit ive always been aware of #no barbie didnt reflect me. i also had no desire for her to #i dont think the doll is like a tool of patriarchy its like. a response to it #a product of a society that upholds patriarchy it was a natural reaction #but it is also a product a thing ment to be marketed to a wide audience #the barbie movie could never be based because it needed women who shave their legs compulsively to like it #why am i talking about barbie you ask that movie came out almost two years ago #well i like ythe ken song. i think its really sad the ken song was the most enthralling part of that movie for me #i liked the billie eilish montage at the end but one is easier to remember bc its like. a campy spectacle #it was more in line with the tone the film established while it was forgetting barbie had like. an arc they dropped for a bit #the whole thing is so. its not BAD #but i keep comiing back to barbies womanhood and thus her personhood being reaffirmed by america through her own agony and self hatred #barbie goes ill never be enough and america goes YES all women feel that!!!!!#and thats like uh. kind of horrifying? i wish That was the movie #i wish a lot of different things individually were their own movie

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