i’m just incredibly over how whenever a woman makes a movie about women it gets picked over to hell and back and men hate it because they hate women and women hate it because it didn’t Do Feminism Perfectly Right and queer people on tumblr hate it because it’s about a straight woman and republicans hate it because it’s furthering the woke agenda and everybody and their fucking father has to write a goddamn think piece about it. and then a man makes a movie about a man and it’s just a movie. it’s just another movie that came out on a friday during some month of the year. and usually the man’s movie is a little misogynistic but no one really criticizes that because well he’s a man we can’t expect better from him haha isn’t it so silly when those male directors hate women!! but then the female director literally gets her every decision analyzed by everyone for the next month not even counting all the criticism and analyzing that was done during the lead up to her movie. and then we all have to pretend like it’s not horrifically misogynistic to level all that extra criticism onto women who make movies and then just let the men go do whatever. like i’m sooo sick of it i’m so sick of it! and god forbid someone like me log on to whatever social media platform and say hey don’t you guys think you’re being too critical? because then WE’RE the bad guy for hating perfect intersectional feminism i guess. like i’m so deeply deeply sick of this are you all not sick of this.
so sad that ben shapiro didn’t like the barbie movie :( you’d think he’d be all about a world filled with women who don’t have vaginas and thus would never complain about him not making them wet
There’s this couple of episodes of Golden Girls, about Dorothy struggling for months with fatigue and confusion, trying to find any answers but only getting brushed off by doctors who don’t take her seriously because she’s an older woman. She eventually finds a doctor who DOES take her seriously and gets diagnosed with CFS, and then she confronts the other doctor who told her that it was all in her head and that she should dye her hair blonde to feel better.
And there’s a lot of tumblr posts about that confrontation but there AREN’T a lot of posts about how the other characters are upset for Dorothy when she’s told yet again that she’s fine and celebrate for her (with a nice dinner) when she finally gets a diagnosis. Even the waiter, after a brief moment of shock when he’s told why they’re celebrating, congratulates her.
And like. That is so fucking rare for people dealing with chronic illness. It’s rare for people to understand why yet another totally normal test result is devastating and why a diagnosis is so validating and relieving even when it means we’re sick. It’s just really nice to see that on tv, even if it’s in a show that’s several decades old.
