And also the way Barbie and Ken are role playing heterosexuality without any inherent sexuality of their own, without any understanding of what it means, or even any genitals at all! Just pretty-girl + handsome-guy = obviously a couple. And the way it fucks them both up! Because they’re both stereotypes, neither of them is a specialist version, no brain surgery or pilots license or Nobel prize for either of them. They’re just assigned the roles of Every Man and Every Woman. And Ken ends up doing Way Too Much because he’s hanging his entire self-worth on being important to Barbie. And Barbie just isn’t interested in him, she was assigned a boyfriend she didn’t ask for and doesn’t want and doesn’t know what to do with, just because that’s what society expects of men and women, that they will necessarily couple up and fall in love because… that’s what they do. Regardless of any personal quality of either party.
It’s about heteronormativity and amatonormativity and the unrealistic expectations society sets boys and girls up for from infancy. Barbie and Ken are every pair of toddlers sharing a sandbox while the adults around them call them each other’s little “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” even though neither party understands or is capable of understanding the implied meaning of that. Or wants to.
It’s a literal funhouse mirror of that weird pressure put on kids to perform heterosexuality from an early age. It examines how that leaves us unprepared for the complicated reality of actual relationships even if it turns out that you are heterosexual and do want sex and romance. Boys and girls aren’t really allowed to be just kids on the same team, so they grow up into men and women who generally want very different things from each other and are trained to look for it in everybody because anybody is better than nobody, and try to force it to work.
Barbie and Ken letting each other go in the end was perfect. Barbie the Every Woman realizing that she doesn’t have to be special, she just has to be, and Ken the Every Man realizing he has to seek validation elsewhere and lean on his fellow Kens for emotional support, WHICH THEY GIVE.
Truly a movie of all time.
The Duffer Brothers/st writers must be hiding something because there's no way there isn't any bts videos of Maya and Natalia, no bloopers, and the one time they put a Ronance scene in the poll they also put Elmax and Byler (I don't remember what ships so correct me if I'm wrong), they were obviously going to lose that poll. I will never not think about this.
if you were going to tell me i would be in tears at the end of an eight-episode mockumentary on fucking freevee because not only did they manage to find one of the most genuine men on the planet earth to be part of their entirely-staged story, but because every single actor who got to know him longer than we did at the end said full-stop they’d fallen in love with him and were so happy to be his friend and had so much fun with him and because everyone acknowledged that he just went above and beyond time and time again every time he was faced with a moral or ethical dilemma and proved people ARE inherently good actually!!!
i wouldn’t believe you and yet. here we are
Literally 💀 they built so much stuff up and then it all went to shit and like literally none of the characters had character development at all except for Max and Lucas but like we all saw how that turned out for them 💀
So here's my Stranger Things 4 review in a visual format.
no words
WAIT NO BECAUSE NOW THAT I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT NANCY SCREAMS COMPHET-
Omg help I think I might start projecting onto Nancy Wheeler 💀
Anyways, comphet sucks 😍
i’m a lesbian nancy wheeler truther tbh
why r the beloved "morally gray" male characters of fandoms always like this is baby killer john he loves killing babies for fun and the fandom is like omg baby killer johnnn 😍😍😍 but a morally gray female character is like heres a traumatized teen girl thats meant to be deeply flawed and wrong at times but also went thru a lot and is meant to be sympathetic and nuanced and the fandom is like SHE NEEDS TO DIE RIGHT NOWWWW !!!!!!!!
Okay gang, I'm team the show ended on s2, s3 and s4 was a nightmare will had while possessed. He wakes up and him and Mike dance together in the ball and kiss, happy ending :D
What if the Duffers knew that having canon, on-screen lesbians meant Netflix would cancel the show and thats why they forced Nancy into comphet relationships and hardly gave Robin's love interest any development. What if they're saving it all up for the last season because then it doesnt matter.
What if we're gonna get ALLLL that pent up lesbianism in ST5. I for one can't wait.
If I was on a show like Stranger Things I simply would not have the self control to not scour the internet for stuff about my character. I know I'd probably get scarred for life by some of the things I find, but I guarantee that wouldn't stop me from doing it again
mike really told el “my parents will be like your parents and my sister will be like your sister” and the GA said otp 😍
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