“the good place season 1: wow someone bad ended up in heaven what a crazy turn of events! the good place season 3: There Is No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism”
and
“the good place season one: guess we gotta learn some philosophy to solve this pickle! the good place season three: Bureaucracy Is An Ineffective Way Of Creating Good And Meaningful Change And The Only Solution Is Radical Protest”]
wlw media so often feels fake and wo love and wo passion and thats bc its usually directed by men and acted out w straight actors and it just fills our screens with plastic women with dead eyes and gaping mouths who looks at her love interest like shes a paycheck.
there wasnt love in carol and there wasnt love in blue is the warmest color and there wasnt love in the handful of movies where the lesbians arent even the focus theyre just a sidenote.
at best we get one lesbian or bisexual actress. one girl trying her hardest and pushing for this romance and trying to represent what she needed to see when she was younger, but theres literally only so much you can do when youre just one person.
like when i say i want passion i dont even mean fighting or evilness or unhealthy dynamics or angst bc thats been done over and over again and none of it has love inherent in it.
i want to see a girl on screen look at another girl and feel like she couldnt breath before she met her. i want to see girls who would burn the world down for the other. who would die and become gods if it meant they could stay together just minutes longer. i want romance where a confession feels like salvation. i want love that changes you from the inside out, where there wont be another one, where you cant afford to squander this one, where you walk to the ends of the earth and beyond just to kiss a girls hand and to feel her embrace.
passion and devotion and conflict and trust and love that feels like heartbreak.
None of you have ever imagined a pretty cisgender female fictional character with a hairy body. No i dont mean leg and arm hair, I mean hair on her ass, her shoulders her upper back her feet her boobs, her stomach, her thighs her FACE. Its just not realistic, it’s in us to think it wouldnt fit and be normal whether we admit it or not. How can a character like that possibly be the love interest? How could we imagine her having people take an interest in her? look past her body “flaws”? Her showing sex appeal? Fashion sense? Going on an adventure? With all that hair???? Nah.
Just trying to think of a female character being hairy is enough for us to think “thats reaching too much” but add other characteristics like her being fat? Absolutely not. So don’t tell me to feel beautiful about my body, I’ve never seen anyone else do that and I KNOW we certainly dont think that or produce any sort of content like that for me to think “yeah… I can rock this”. It’s never been there, it never WAS there. Let me know when a fat hairy girl with hirsutism gets shown normally in a movie or show or cartoon and then come tell me I need to embrace myself.
Yes you can reblog this, because u lot are guilty of this and so am I.
