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“I’m just a girl” as a female version of boys will be boys/boys getting to be childish and immature: Fun. Silly. Allows women and girls to be humans who are sometimes immature, weird and goofy in the same way as their male counterparts. Rejects the idea of girls having to be more mature or sophisticated at a young age.

“I’m just a girl” as a sarcastic way to describe gender roles: Funny. Exposes the ridiculousness of such stereotypes and expectations in a humorous way.

“I’m just a girl” as a way for women to infantalise themselves or promote gender roles under the guise of quirky humour: Cringe. Enforces stereotypes. Generally not funny

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People comparing Hamilton to the barak-a-laka obama musical has the same vibes as people comparing the hunger games to divergent

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You know your lonely when you start fantasising about platonic meet cutes

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Thinking abt the way that grief and a speration from societal norms has opposite effects on Shauna and Travis.

In season 1 Shauna appears soft and conforming. She generally goes along with what Jackie says, willingly living in her shadow and pushing down all her resentment and frustration. She can’t completely hide her bitterness and her anger but she tries to keep it from spilling to the surface by playing the part of the soft, supportive friend. Inversely, Travis adopts the mask of Shauna’s true personality to hide his kindness and vulnerability so that he can behave like a typical 90s teenage boy (presumably to fit in with other boys his age). Hes a little misogynistic, slightly mean to his little brother, hates being vulnerable and always trying to act more tough/confident than he really - usually by putting down the ppl around him. Eg, telling Nat she should fold laundry when she can’t balance the gun.

Essentially, Shauna hides her agression and meanness behind a facade of compliance while Travus covers up his softness with annoyance and rudeness.

But then in season 3 they’ve lost their masks. Shauna is mean and rude and openly agressive (more so than Travis ever was) while Travis is soft and compliant. He’s learnt that thats the only way to survive and his grief makes him tired and despondent.

Basically, pre crash they were both hiding their real personalities under the shell of what everyone else expected of them but in the wilderness their grief (and lack of outside influences) pushes them to reveal their true selves but who they really are is also currupted and accentuated to an unhealthy extreme because of everything they’ve gone through.

In conclusion, Travis Martinez deserves so so so much better :(

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This season has been so bad I honestly would have preferred the Walter is Melissa theory to be true

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Yellowjackets 3x10 spoilers

Next season better have Mari being so honoured and so revered by the other girls for her sacrifice. She was so selfless and sacrificed herself for their plan to kill Shauna only for Melissa to back out so Mari’s sacrifice was for nothing. And then she is brutalised and dehumanised and treated in the most horrific manner. It was genuinely so disgusting to see what the writers did to her in this episode and I find it so disturbing that there are ppl defending the obvious racial implications (even if they might have been unintentional, the effect is still the same and you can’t deny that none of the white characters were treated so cruelly). Just… they’d better at least show the other girls honouring Mari’s memory, grieving her, hallucinating her. The type of shit that the show allowed Jackie to have. Not for the development of the other characters, but because Mari was so good and so brave and so altruistic and she deserves to be honoured and respected.

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Yellowjackets s3 e10 spoilers

The way that in ep1 Travis felt so much empathy for Shauna that he literally felt undeserving/guilty for grieving his brother and dad because he thought she had it worse. Then this episode Shauna immediately insults him by bringing up Javi’s death :(((

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What if Evans Johnson is adult Akilah and she killed Lottie because she thought Lottie was dangerous cos of how Lottie drugged her and Travis and had a role in Travis’ death

I don’t think Akilah would want to kill because she’s not typically a violent or vengeful person but I am so desperate for her (and Mari) to survive and I think it would make sense as the big season finale plot twist. Also I think it wouldn’t be too crazy for Akilah to accidentally kill Lottie (eg, being involved in her death and talking to Lottie till she falls off the stairs like what happened w Misty and Crystal) or for Akilah to kill her if she thinks that it will protect other ppl.

please let Akilah survive please let Akilah survive please let Akilah survive

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Me when people make silly little jokes about how a character has never done anything wrong ever: 😍🕺😁🫦✨🥳

Me when ppl start to genuinely inerpret the character that way and their entire personality and complexity is erased:😭😡💔😨😢🔫😩

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Yellowjackets spoilers

“Maybe there’s two versions of reality, most of the time the other one… the bad one, is just hiding - or waiting - but it’s always real.”

Oh they are definitely hallucinating that cutesy idyllic little summer camp with an animal farm and perfect little shelters.

My guess is that itll be like Akilah’s mouse where we spend a lot of the season seeing the camp from the girls’ pov and then the delusion is broken and the audience sees the shabby, crusty reality of falling apart shelters, sickly (or dead) animals and starving teenagers along with the characters themselves

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Based on some questionable comments i saw on tiktok

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Yellowjackets spoilers

I expected to see a lot of crazy things this season, a homophobic slap band was not one of them.

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Yellowjackets is accurate saphic representation because it perfectly illustrates the experience of being so so in love with a girl but not realising it so you start to emulate all the stuff u see in her thats good and then u also lowkey think ur jealous of her because you can’t replicate those traits fully and embody them as well as she does but you keep trying because you admire her so much and also trying to be like her makes you feel closer to her and you’d give absolutely anything to be as close to her as possible

(you still think ur not in love with her)

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Yellow jackets s3 spoilers

Thinking abt how Melissa kinda looks like Jackie and how their both kind ppl. The way Mel is attracted to Shauna’s outcasted, brooding persona and wants to comfort her. The way Jackie was kind to Misty (an outcast) and always tried to comfort the girls and bring them together (eg, when they had a fight at the party before the crash). The way both Jackie and Melissa try to be kind and comforting but Jackie does so from a position of leadership while Melissa does it in a more submissive way, focusing mainly on comforting Shauna rather than the group as a whole. The way Mel is everything Shauna loved about Jackie (kindness, warmth but with a slightly edgy sense of humor) but also everything Shauna wanted Jackie to be. Melissa is Shauna’s sidekick, not the other way around. She’s the one pining after Shauna, Shauna doesn’t have to fight Mel for attention from others and she doesn’t have to fight for Melissa’s attention either.

From Shauna’s perspective (probably unconsciously) Melissa is the idealised Jackie and that is probably the only reason why Shauna loves her.

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Please let Akilah or Mari be the last survivor i says delusionally as Hillary Swank (playing adult Melissa) drags me to my holding cell.

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Mild s3 spoilers

magine that the person who’s actually closest to the wilderness isnt Lottie or Travis or Akilah but instead it’s Mari and her calling Shauna gaywad is a prophetic vision like Lottie seeing the river of blood in s1

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If season 3 doesn’t reveal that Jeff is having an affair with Randy Walsh then what’s even the point?