“Women speaking of mirrors and prettiness make it all too clear that even for pretty women, mirrors are the foci of anxious, not gratified, narcissism. The woman who knows beyond a doubt that she is beautiful exists aplenty in male novelists’ imaginations; I have yet to find her in women’s books or women’s memoirs or in life. Women spend a lot of time looking in mirrors, but the “compulsion to visualize the self” is a phrase Moers uses of women in her chapter on Gothic freaks and horrors; the compulsion is a constant check on one’s (possible) beauty, not an enjoyment of it.”
— Joanna Russ, “Aesthetics,” How to Suppress Women’s Writing (1983).
“Women’s “heal everything, fix everything” compulsion is a major entrapment constructed by the requirements placed upon us by our own cultures, mainly pressures to prove that we are not just standing around taking up space and enjoying ourselves, but that we have redeemable value- in some parts of the world, it is fair to say, to prove that we have value and therefore should be allowed to live. These pressures are introduced into our psyches when we are very young and unable to judge or resist them. They become law to us… unless or until we challenge them.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves
why? straight-gay best friends being the main focus of the show… it’s what we deserve
even though the show is set in the present day, they’ve decided to go with the 70s aesthetic vibe which looks just astonishing + the soundtrack slaps
from iconic scenes
through powerful scenes
through random moments that end up being touching
to… well
[jennifer lawrence voice] gay rights!
the reason behind the father being hesitant and (at first) not really supportive of his gay son using make-up and dressing up is that he’s genuinely scared and worried something will happen to him outside because he loves him… truly a father-gay son dynamic we needed to see
Jackson Marchetti. Feminist icon. Abs. Excellence. Does his best. Lesbian moms. Charming. What’s there not to love? Let him breathe, Netflix.
“I love her!” be more specific
the hero of the show actually being an awkward guy and a very likeable character
this non-problematic legend being out there, loving math and making sure his partner is genuinely sexually pleased
the only two openly gay guys at school are not friends but gay solidarity still exists
Mean Girls 2.0 being really mean but we still stan these vegan icons
literally no one giving a fuck that the gay guy is in the boys changing room… looks like it’s finally 2019
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