#as though it was some kind of supergirl girl boss puff piece

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i always see this post in the tags and it literally annoys me so much like thats kind of the whole point. like theres a reason she doesnt end up with avigdor it is literally not the romance of yentl and avigdor he is an asshole and the CHARACTER stating that is not the FILM stating that, like the film is literally using that to tell you that this man was attracted to someone who he was completely certain was a man & also his demeanour to her completely changes when he realises shes not and there is LESS intimacy between them.. the ‘guy falls in love with girl dressed as man and its not gay after all’ is literally such a long-running trope from shakespeare to folk songs and this film is making a conscious effort to like acknowledge the fact that the acceptance of that trope is sort of shaky and like maybe gender and attraction arent really that rigid after all...like if avigdor ISNT gay for finding anshel hot then doesnt that mean hadass IS? its literally asking its 1985 audience to think about like at what moment and for what reason do women become sexual beings and men intellectual ones and what intimacy does that prohibit etc etc its like seriously i dont know what you wanted from this film 😭 most 19th century rural polish men on realising they were attracted to another man WOULD have been like ‘there’s something wrong with me’ i dont see how that means the FILM is homophobic. any film that portrays bigotry is actually supporting that bigotry<3 so true

#also its like most of barbras films like explore the relationships between men and women within homosexuality #funny girl is the same where its kind of the story of a romance between a man and a woman but also hes sort of a horrible guy and she ends #up on her own at the climax which is always like a definitive statement to be making especially in those days #and its like at once parodying AND romanticising the gendered difference between them #like you are woman i am man is literally high camp... #i know she didnt make funny girl but like thats her background #it just annoys me im sorry i see these takes constantly and its like #please read the directorial intention come awn.. #also its just like 'tries to make some sort of feminist statement' like i find that wording so insulting idk #as though it was some kind of supergirl girl boss puff piece