Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
extremely on the nose allegorical critique of beauty norms but deeply necessary nevertheless! the zero sum, destructive dynamic between elisabeth and sue reveals that in altering our bodies in a bid to remain younger, we are shortchanging ourselves. we’re depleting ourselves of the resources we need for self-acceptance. we’re amplifying and accelerating our anxieties. women shouldn’t need to change their bodies! it shouldn’t be considered paternalistic to say that!! stop the madness!!
sorry but a CEO that likes being dommed is about as subversive as a dog that barks. “boss bitch” edition doesn’t make this over-used trope any juicier. it just introduces an additional element: the eroticisation of the degradation of women (and sorry yes i do have to query the value of depicting this given our culture is already saturated in it). at first i accepted that this could just be a “playful” portrayal of power play, and that art doesn’t…
Trash apolitical green-washing of sex work, I cringed so hard when they tried to define what exploitative labour was