#something abt video essays man.. mskes me want to think of hos my self inserts would be recived in that medium

[dolls-self-ships]

OK SO I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS

I just finished this review of chicken run 2 dawn of the nugget and it was a masterpiece. Like if the chicken run movies haven't radicalized you atp then idk what to tell u (I still love u even if they haven't tho).

Anyway though my thought was that Daphne's and Mac's relationship could be a clear representation of the anxieties the heterosexual necular family structure felt around the rise of queer liberation/the supposed "predatory homosexual". We see it in how Daphne, who embodies many traits of what was conaidered peak feminity of the 1960's patriarchy (slim but shapely, dainty, wears flowers and bows, sweet, southern, ladylike) actively trying to escape a hunter, that Mac is the one to primarily (not without help) rescue her, and in this instant there is no perceived threat in Mac's feelings towards her, nor is the either one of the two queer women being the aggressor, but it's the very clear depiction of the violent and dominant heterosexual man (aka. The Hunter). And not only this, but Daphne is very clearly and obviously reciprocal of Mac's affection for her. Their relationship actively challenges this idea that many people had at the time of the "predatory aggressive homosexual" out to steal your spouse/groom your children (which is unfortunately STILL a common anxiety amongst conservitave heterosexual society today). Daphne, who would often be considered the prize for the heterosexual leading male to covet, is represented as the reality of which many women at the time, and still today, experience with assult and domestic abuse at the hands of men, who would often try to point fingers at the queer community for doing what really they were guilty of. Every accusation is a confession, in this case.