it’s not a new era of self acceptance. it’s what i said last year about how beauty shifted to being about the semblance of biological advantage rather than skill. we see this transition through the shift toward skincare, surgery / injectables, lash extensions.
"One more thing," the patient says, right when I'm about to exit the exam room.
I used to be annoyed by it. Until one day, a patient's "one more thing" was actually "the" thing she wanted to say. But she needed to feel me out and make sure I was a safe person first. So, I sat back down and listened. Then we discussed and ran tests.
"You restored my faith in doctors." She took the bus just to tell me this today after making a full recovery. Her visit filled my heart with warmth and purpose.
If we ask people to wait for months for their appointments, then (sometimes) hours in our offices, we can hear them out for their one more thing.
it literally showed that the patriarchy harms both men and women and the conclusion for ken's character is that he is enough just as he is, he doesn't have to pretend to be a big macho guy nor does he have to he depend on barbie, he's just ken
Every pink-covered woman at this theater greeted one another with enthusiastic “hi Barbie!!!”s and I feel like I have transcended from this plane to a feminist dreamscape hello