Just some musings

literally almost every day of my life these idiots would trash my interests and my personality because of my race.

all because “emo music is white culture”.

lmao

5 out of 8 of these women have been involved with Academy Award Winning movies.

4 out of 8 have been nominated for an Academy Award 2 or more times each.

3 out of 8 have actually won Academy Awards, some more than once.

Between them there’s 4 Academy Wins and 13 Academy Award nominations.

If we extend beyond the Academy Awards, these women have in total more than 1200 nominations for Awards and almost 500 wins under their belt…

Now do the search for the Ocean’s Eleven cast… let me tell you… 11 of them put together don’t even reach half of the accomplishments of only these 8 women. Heck, you can just count Rihanna and Cate… 11 guys still don’t reach their accomplishments. Even better, If you put together all their nominations, they don’t even reach the number of Wins of these women (only if you add Julia Roberts, basically the only woman in the movie,  to the list of Oceans Eleven can they reach the WINS of the women of Ocean’s Eight with their NOMINATIONS).

Ocean’s Eight is not a remake of a classic, it’s an in-universe spinoff of a completed trilogy series.

HOWEVER.

The “Classic” 2001 Ocean’s Eleven to which he refers is LITERALLY A REMAKE OF A 1960 MOVIE starring five of the Rat Pack.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

so you know how the ‘a certain point of view’ novel posits that yoda wanted to train leia instead of luke… that could have been an interesting movie too

So.

I’ve seen this picture all over my Instagram for the past two weeks. With captions like “Lili vs Model” “who wore it better?” “Which one is hotter?” It’s been pretty hard to avoid. And I think it’s time I finally said something about it.

It’s disappointing.

This photo is being posted by fan accounts. The same fan accounts who love to talk about the amazing female friendships on the show, girl power, Veronica’s inspiring feminism, body positivity, etc.

And that is the most hypocritical shit I’ve ever seen.

This is a poll. A competition. A comparison of two bodies. It’s a feeding ground for comments of judgement and negativity.— “Betty is fat” “that’s not flattering” “the model looks way better.”

It is a perfect way to fuel this delusional idea that it’s still okay to put women on a pedestal and compare them.

I’ve asked myself so many times… how do we actually learn to love our bodies? How do we as a society, openly and privately, accept that all bodies are truly beautiful and there shouldn’t be a specific body type that is considered “the best” or the most beautiful? It’s so easy to say “embrace your curves” “everyone is beautiful!”— but to actually put that into practice is the hard part. It’s easy to convince others that we think this way, but it doesn’t mean anything if you don’t actually believe that.

I do not have that model’s body. I’m fully aware of this. I don’t have a thigh gap.. a 24 inch waist.. toned arms or abs. I am not her. And how dare anyone assume that I should look like her.

And the people who are commenting on this photo and weighing in on this poll… are the ones who are comparing themselves to the model as well. It’s so easy to point out someone else’s “flaws”, isn’t it? Because it makes us feel better about ourselves and about our own insecurities.

It’s upsetting to see all these young women who proclaim to be feminists participate in something that represents the exact opposite. To them I say: You are the problem, don’t you get it? You are promoting the idea that this model is what all women should look like and that it’s not okay to look like anything else. This is why we have eating disorders. This is why young teens are suicidal about their body image. This is why people have body dysmorphic disorder. This is why there aren’t nearly enough plus size models in the industry.

“Hmmm, tough call bro. Have you tried gouging out your eyes so you don’t have to see all those bodies anymore?”

“wut”

“What?”

“Shouldn’t you tell them to… stop dressing like that or something?”

“Don’t see why. It’s not their fault that the fact that they have bodies makes you a fucking sinful horndog. Gotta fix that problem yourself, buddy. Go on, blind yourself.”

“Uh….”

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