The funniest thing about anthropology is the more you learn about it, the more you realise how often full papers and books and theories came from indigenous people fucking with the researchers without them realising
The point of the film is that she's 13 and shouldn't have to do that. The point of the film is that society forces young women to grow up and adultify themselves in various ways. Kara takes on that responsibility because she, as an adult, should be the one to handle it.
there's a profound sense of loneliness you develop as a lesbian when you don't have lesbian friends in real life which is enough to kill you in your head atleast forty times a day