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[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@hya_lina @reyskyhime It’s kind of Flanagan’s schtick along with a lot of other mainstream media, especially those centering women. A little surface level physiology and criticism with a whole lot of palatability.

Carrie’s such a dull sanitization of women’s rage at patriarchal suppression.

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

What she thought would give her comfort, safety, and probably even identity ends up being her prison, her place without dream and desire, her place of isolation.

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

You know in The Haunting of Hill House, the book, where Eleanor is dancing through the halls at the sound of her mothers voice to what would be her ultimate doom and consumption by the house and when she happily drives her car into a tree only realizing her err at the last second

[Lottie Cult Propagandist @shaunasforestbb]

Respectfully I just don't buy this. Yes it's her attempt to make her time out there mean something but that doesn't automatically make it a cathartic experience.

I feel like we are being pressured to accept Jeff as a source of peace for Shauna when he has never been that

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

I think the wedding dancing probably functions in the same way. There is a catharsis and a safety in being able to perform the heteronormative and domestic but we see through the adult timeline what a facade that was and how Shauna untimely exists in it alone and without identity

[e1mo⑨ 🪓🔪| yjs4 spoilers @eatpray10ve]

Her life did not pan out the way she wanted it to and she is stuck w pain/trauma that she will never be able reconcile, Jeff and Callie for better and for worse are the two main pillars of stability of her life, it should be very easy to see why she continues to cling to them

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@eatpray10ve To leave that, despite its destruction, would be terrifying which ironically was a big part of her relationship with Jackie and its ultimately demise.

[kat ☆ yj spoilers @queermediabait]

those who misuse “male gaze” need to realize that lesbianism isn’t just soft cottagecore. queer women get horny & want to see hot women fuck!! and that’s ok! the obsession w avoiding the “male gaze” actually centers men & creates an impossible standard that erases wlw entirely!!

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@queermediabait I’m begging people to go like actually read the theory cause we aren’t doing this right and I think that might actually be becoming just as harmful as the male gaze.

[Cel Millennium 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @Zer0_Millennium]

Patriarchy's greatest harm is alienating lesbians from their own sexual desires by making lesbian sexuality exist solely for men

And by accusing every sexual piece of lesbian art as "male gaze", you're alienating yourself & reinforcing that lesbian sexuality exists for men

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@blazinginsquids Like, it’s more so about agency and fully formed characters and how the camera works to do that or take that away than it is about what men like to look at and yet I’ve seen so little discussion about those things.

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@blazinginsquids It’s also just not what the male gaze is. It would be super great if people like read about it instead of just going men like sex and therefore sex is designed for men and any displays of female desire or sexuality must be for the male gaze.

[logan 🫀 @louicentss]

lisbeths behavior is about fitting in and being liked, yes. but it’s also about a full meal, and new clothes, and feeling like you are worthy of the luxuries everyone around you has. this girl has been eating two eggs for dinner for a long time.

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@shipturnerguy_8 Of course, it’s Yellowjackets so it will be nasty and brutal and violent up until a point lol

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@shipturnerguy_8 That marriage or does she need to leave it to find identity and I while I think and want the choice to be leave it that doesn’t mean it needs to be nasty and brutal and violent. It can look more like confronting internal conflict and resolution with Jeff.

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@Hungryhxg Callie wouldn’t like hate tweets about her mom but would hate tweet about her mom

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

I think they’ll be dancing. Uninterrupted dancing…maybe with their adult counterparts as well.

[lili ˚ ༘ the body & yj spoilers @deadguysplane]

so you’re telling me the last scene is gonna be the girls having fun together and locking eyes RIGHT OKAY

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

@cptjackietaylor @dyingnome That’s just Yellowjackets staying true to tradition at this point.

[Jean @hauntingvacay16]

I think the idea of cozy horror has rotted peoples brains. They want women and sapphics in dark romantic settings not actual horror that interrogates religion, heteronormativity and other culty stuff. They need it to let them feel good not make them uncomfortable as horror should

[mar @saintjackets]

something i've noticed with both the yellowjackets and the body fandom is that they love going on about the "culty aesthetic" and then complaining about the toxic and manipulative characters. as if cults aren't inherently abusive and exploitative. someone has to be the predator

[bee ★⋆˙ @flopblur]

i don’t think people realise how harmful it is to call every piece of lesbian media with sex in it “male gaze”, especially about something directed by a queer woman. its just furthering the sexless lesbian bullshit and why is your first thought while watching “men will love this”