franklin breast image

read the tcm screenplay here :)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) outtakes

the texas chain saw massacre (1974) outtakes

i dont like most merch to begin with but it's an additional blessing that tcsm merch tends to be so ugly. can you imagine someone with bitch hog eyeless cook draped over their body. and sure, cook SAID it...but does he BEAR the label like his tortured, sexually degraded brother...a victim of misogyny* as much as myself... as a woman with taste i would proudly wear a bitch hog t-shirt with HITCHHIKER's face on the back (*SARCASM)

ORIGINAL TERROR HOUSE - TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) dir. Tobe Hooper

plus he sucked for being a wheelchair user in an inaccessible world. so is he not a teenager too, in these reddit users’ minds, who may have not always been "patient and understanding" or is it too much for any disabled person, dependent on others by necessity, to expect his family and friends, who purport to care about him even if the wider society doesn't, to not leave him stranded, to sympathize with how bad it must have felt to have been attacked by a stranger he can't run from, etc. surely this weird distaste for franklin, prince of hell, never carries over to disabled people irl

but i never see anything of the inherent tastelessness of the casting addressed in discussions about franklin's unlikeability, the vector for easy updoots on social media. instead people admit that they too would ignore their disabled friend as much as possible if they deigned to include them on their trip. the characters in the van were average people and ableism is the average value to hold

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Dir. Tobe Hooper