Frog

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

IM READING ATMOSPHERE BY TJR AND WHAT TGE HECK??? JOAN AND VANESSA ARE THE LESBIANS EVER I CANT DO IT ANYMORE

Probably my favorite part about Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is that Joan never once feels shame or like she's broken for being a lesbian. Joan spent her whole life thinking that love just wasn't for her, and she was FINE with that; it was a non-issue. But once she realizes she is a lesbian (even if the word is never used), she's ecstatic. She is scared because she knows society and NASA won't accept and embrace her, but that's their problem; they're in the wrong for that, it has nothing to do with her.