Shitpost headcanon time because I had to be normal at the doctor’s office today and I deserve this.
Conway runs a movie pirating site and helps people find free textbooks online. Morally he’s correct but legally...let’s say he just uses a lot of vpns
Misty played water polo but was kicked out after beating a girl with a pool noodle
Gary knows every word to Hey Soul Sister by Train against his will because Tracey has it on their field work car trip playlist
Drew is one of those ‘my body is a temple’ vegetarians and he probably does yoga
Dawn bites her fingernails and has tried everything but cannot stop for the life of her. Zoey buys her that really bitter nail polish to help and paints Dawn’s nails.
Professor Oak wears bifocals
Morrison plays the drums. does anyone even care about this guy
Pikachu refuses to eat store brand ketchup
Paul never uses umbrellas and doesn’t mind being rained on but mostly because he doesn’t own an umbrella and keeps forgetting to buy one
Sophocles naruto runs and t poses
May is really good at just dance and kills it at Living La Vida Loca every time
Mallow uses a mortar and pestle even after Lillie got her a nutribullet blender
Serena has ten million perfume samples but just uses viva la juicy couture every time
Brock loves shitty romance novels
Lana is a GTA5 twitch streamer
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something that i thought was very well done in Barbie (besides yanno all of it) is how Margot's Babrie doesn't think she's smart, because she has been labeled as "stereotypical Barbie".
like, multiple times in this movie, she has moments of very well articulated and intelligent comments, which have excellent comedic timing, but serve a wider purpose of showcasing how women tend to be given a Trait and that is your thing. she mentions how she wishes Smart Barbie was here or to wait for Leadership Barbie to swoop in because she's Stereotypical Barbie, she's not smart, she's not a Leader, she can't do this.
at some point after childhood, women get pigeonholed into a category, right (sometimes even in childhood if I'm honest)? weird, smart, hot, pretty, ugly, bitchy, innocent, prudish, slut, nice. at most, you get two of these traits for your peers and friends to label you.
and its hard to see that when it happens! it's only as we go on and start having complex relationships and experiences and interacting with people outside of our space that we start seeing that and start putting a name to the feeling of constriction that we've been having for, what feels like, forever.
THEN you have to contend with the reality that you are so much more than even all of those things and that's scary! you cannot fit into these small boxes, humans were never made to fit into boxes, you have to throw it out even as others play tug-of-war with you in the rain and insist the soggy, tearing box is so important and where would we be without it? you have to constantly face that and insist that no, it's not, and we'd be right where we are now, arguing over a wet box in the rain when the only thing either of us wants is to be warm inside.
and you have to learn when to pick and choose to just let go and leave the box and the person in the rain and when to keep fighting, even if you're so tired and cold.
and this just! HAPPENS! like there isn't a manual, there isn't a magical age you turn where this becomes clear to you! it's different for everyone and some don't ever have that and some have it so young and others not until they're old! it's such a lonely thing sometimes!
but then you meet other women, different women, so many women with so many unique experiences to add. trans women, women of color, nonbinary women, disabled women, women of every differing religion, ALL have these unique experiences with this phenomon, some have more boxes to throw out in the rain, some have to try and throw out wooden or stone boxes in a hurricane, the danger they face in doing so is sometimes so much more than what others experience.
but that moment of realizing women all have this undertone of understanding and dealing with this gives us the courage to join and hopefully make the tug-of-war easier, to make sure we all get inside to be warm. it's hard to pull that stone box by yourself, but if we join behind you, maybe we can win.
this movie encapsulates that so incredibly well? that speech from Gloria about how tiring it is to see herself and other women feel this way and be made to feel this way and to buy into ourselves is just! that moment of looking every woman in the eyes and telling them they're seen and their struggles are seen and it is so unfair!
and then Barbie says something else smart and, for the first time, acknowledges she did. "Oh I can't believe that just came from me" it has the whole time, can't wait for you to realize that you were always human, and look forward to seeing you in the rain and for hot cocoa afterwards.
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