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“So I said: “please love me,” and what I meant was: please treat me gently. Please love me with a love that can be felt. That can be touched. A love that I can write about gracefully if and when it ends. Which I may look upon with pacific eyes, and say: “that was a good love. It had to end but it was good.””
Sue Zhao // Nothing but Strawberries
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I cannot stop thinking about the scene where barbie first cries and she looks around the park to see the people and she sees loneliness, and fights, and sadness, but she also sees laughter, and love, and hope, and she cries, and she laughs, and she looks, and watches the reality that is being alive. There is ups and downs and it is far from perfect but at its very core, it’s beautiful, and important.
This is the first time she sees what being alive truly is, beyond the side effects she started experiencing, beyond her first interaction she had with the real world. This was the first time she stopped and really watched where she is, WHO she is.
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what really got to me about the barbie movie is how the movie is really about how there is still a little girl inside all of us, and when you walk around the movie theater and see all these grown women dressed in pink and visibly excited, it’s a reminder of that. but moreso, it’s how your mother is a little girl too. and that all comes together in the end when barbie meets her creator. barbie was made so ruth’s daughter could be anything she wanted to be, and she named her after her. in the end when ruth helps barbie become human, she is her mother. and when in the end barbie introduces herself as barbara, she is her daugher again. you can be anything, but being human and mortal and imperfect is the greatest gift of all.
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Just got home from the Barbie movie and wow.
I can’t stop thinking about how beautifully the Barbie movie portrays that often times when men (speaking in very binary terms, apologies) are hurt and feel wronged they’ll act out in ways that hurt people, may that be purposefully or inadvertently. And society enforces this. Meanwhile women, who are used to living in a hostile world, will often express and process their pains in ways that don’t harm others.
But Ken never wanted to hurt anyone. He just was hurt and didn’t know how to deal with it. He found the first thing that gave him an outlet and some inkling of comfort and latched onto it. And after Ken has had his supposed “villain arc”, Barbie isn’t mad at him. She lets him know it’s okay to cry.
The villain was never Ken himself, it was the fact that society is built in a way that prevents men from having ways to safely process and regulate their emotions. A society that punishes men for crying and confiding in friends and wanting to be comforted.
The Barbie movie isn’t anti men. It’s a big fuck you to our society that is hellbent on keeping everyone in an eternal cycle of hurt.
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Barbie (2023) ✦ Dir. Greta Gerwig
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thinking about the scene in barbie where she asks for permission to be herself and she’s told she doesn’t need permission, and no one can give her permission for that, because it’s just something you start doing
thinking about the scene in barbie where they say you don’t need to be exceptional to have worth and deserve love, because just getting through the day is often hard enough
also thinking about the scene in barbie where barbie tells a bunch of construction workers she doesn’t have a vagina and the construction workers who have no context beyond her being a pretty girl are like “oh okay that’s cool”
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i love referring to historical figures by their first name. it keeps them humble in the grave. i am not calling your ass his imperial majesty tsar nicholas ii emperor of all russias. your name is nicky you dead fucking loser
(via nii-hieromythic)
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GINNY&GEORGIA (2021-)
Season 2 Episode 7: We’re Going To Serenade The Shit Out Of You -
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