I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST WITNESSED. THAT WAS THE CUTEST SHIT IVE EVER SEEN. TRICKY TONY THANKYOU FOR MY LIFE

Guess who was my favorite flower

so get a grip. you don’t need positivity posts about how it’s okay to be feminine. not just because it’s constantly reinforced everywhere you look. but also because nearly all aspects of femininity are a psyop meant to condition women to cater to men. you should unlearn that shit. and for the love of god. stop telling girls “it’s okay to be feminine.” they fucking know. they’re told being feminine is the only option. you should be telling girls it’s okay to be masculine. because i promise you, no one else is.

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And the obvious reason for this is that it shows her maturing and gaining more status as the show goes on, but I wonder if there's also something to be said about her clothing becoming more cumbersome and restrictive. The bubble dress is heavy (I believe they tend to range about 12-15 lbs) and it's something that a lot of actresses complain about. Glinda in act 1 tends to have a lot of energy and very over-the-top body language. This is most apparent in popular, which varies between performances but usually involves a lot of jumping around, high kicks, even sometimes splits and attempted cartwheels. She loses this in act 2, both because she wants to project a more serious image as Glinda the Good and because she's just a lot less happy than she was in the first act. But there's also the additional fact that she couldn't do most of those things even if she wanted to, because of her clothing. The persona of Glinda the Good restricts her in a metaphorical sense and the clothing restricts her in a literal sense. She is physically unable to be as lively and expressive as she used to be. And I'm not sure this is intentional (there's also a broader point to be made here about women's clothing in general) but I think it's interesting nonetheless.