As a Black girl, something about white girls being the MCs in feminist stories that acknowledge their white privilege being rejected pisses me off.
Of course we deserve WOC feminist stories, ALWAYS AND FOREVER, but when you have a white writer, there’s only so much you can do.
If the story points out white guilt, white feminism, white superiority and their issues and consequences, I don’t know why it’s an issue?
White people can hardly ever write in the perspective of POC. There are so many things they’ll get wrong. I’d rather they write about what they know and the harm in their privilege and perspective.
It’s also incredibly harmful to name any white person who’s trying to be an ally as a “white saviour” or “obsessed with POC” or “fake”. We need allies, we need them to understand as much as they can. Constantly pushing them away doesn’t do progress any good.
I’m not saying we need white people to take pity on us, but white people are still people who need to grow, understand, love and build community.
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Did Lemony write 'That's Not How The Story Goes' (Netflix canon)?
***N.B. This theory is based on the Netflix canon***
We first hear the sombre melody of That's Not How The Story Goes at the end of The Miserable Mill: Part Two. Everyone from Lemony to Olaf to the (creepily cheery) Mr Poe joins in as a part of this song, before at the very end of the song/episode, we see that the song came from Mr Poe's radio, when he says "Mm, that's nice."
My theory is that Lemony wrote this song as a part of his depressed chronicling of the tragic story Baudelaire orphans:
We know right from the start that the song is about the Baudelaires, as Lemony['s verse] starts,
"You may think that the Baudelaires ought to prevail, and be tucked someplace all safe and sound"
Given that:
"My name is Lemony Snicket and it is my solemn duty to investigate the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, because if I do, [typewriter dings] I may be able to find them again." ¬ L.S., The Penultimate Peril, Part Two
it makes sense that he opens the song referring to the three protagonists.
However, the reason I think it's Lemony, and not anyone else, is because of the verse:
"I once loved a girl, and she thought well of me, we thought we'd be happy together;
But now I'm alone, as you can well see, and she's cold in her grave forever"
There are a few people Lemony could be referring to here:
His Beloved Beatrice Baudelaire
Kit Snicket
Duchess R of Winnipeg
Ellington Feint
Moxie Mallahan
Firstly, we can more-than-safely assume that Lemony is NOT referring to Ellington or Moxie. His relationship with both of them has never reached that extent, to the point where he loved them so much he considered a future with them...
His Beloved Beatrice Baudelaire
Kit Snicket
Duchess R of Winnipeg
Ellington Feint
Moxie Mallahan
He could be referring to Kit... but why would he start a future with his sister? Ugh.
His Beloved Beatrice Baudelaire
Kit Snicket
Duchess R of Winnipeg
Ellington Feint
Moxie Mallahan
Yes, Lemony did have quite a close relationship with Duchess R... but if Duchess R is the swimming woman from The Grim Grotto (@snicketsleuth amazing theory), it can't be her, as R is not dead by the time Lemony writes the verse in the song. Beatrice is the only dead one (assuming, of course, that Ellington and Moxie are alive).
His Beloved Beatrice Baudelaire
Kit Snicket
Duchess R of Winnipeg
Ellington Feint
Moxie Mallahan
But... if Lemony wrote and published A Series of Unfortunate Events in-universe, why would he need to write a song as well?
This has a very simple answer - ASOUE was banned from Prufrock Prep at the time Kit was teaching, so the only way Lemony could get his point across was by song.
Under a pseudonym of course - no enemy of his should know he's alive.
¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist
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I am watching Moxie! on Netflix.
It’s pretty much your standard teen film so far. I’m only like 5 minutes in, but I do wonder, why do the girls like being objectified?
Like I saw the commercial/trailer that Netflix played and I do think that’s going to be one of the main themes of the movie, but still.
Why are the girls competing to get “Best Rack” or “Most Bangable.”
Im not trying to slut shame. As a (wannabe) slut myself, power to ya. I’d love to be called most bangable. But it just feels icky. I do think that’s the point though.
Also, pretty decent cinematography. Good use of negative space to draw viewers attention so far. In my opinion at least.
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Wowwww i just started watching the movie Moxie and this character LUCY!!!! OH MY GOD! she's the GOAT🤌 "I'll keep my head up high!" It's Giving>>>>>>> so far loving it
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If this is what teen movies will be like I won't be watching them anymore. Moxie was so so terrible. Terrible actors terrible writing terrible everything.
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