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on tumblr bc murph said to

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shimmering beautiful

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sorry if i'm being dramatic but i just need to talk about this shot again because it's so simple and yet it shook the very ground beneath my feet. a barbie is crying. i feel like i need to repeat that--A BARBIE IS CRYING. I JUST SAW A BARBIE CRY. and she's not supposed to! she's a toy you play with until bald spots form on her head and her legs become bent out of shape and one of her arms fall off. but none of that matters because she shouldn't feel any of it. she shouldn't hurt. her mouth is literally curved to a perpetual smile because she's perfect and her life is perfect no matter what sordid thing you do to her. Barbie is a woman but she's not a person with feelings! she's plastic! and now i'm sitting here thinking about just how much seven year old me internalized all of that.

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The barbie movie having her 'fly down her roof' is so cute cause when you're a kid playing with them on roof of her building or whatever she doesn't use the stairs??, she does jumps off the roof. Sometimes does a flip

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I'm gonna CRY

The scene in the Barbie trailer when Barbie is skating around with Ken and asks "Why is everyone staring at me?"

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE AN ADOLESCENT GIRL.

Living in Barbieland (childhood girlhood) but then suddenly you're all grown up in the real world subject to scrutiny and sexualisation (the guy slapping Barbie's ass) and feeling like existing is a crime?

Being forced by adult men into a box (which leads to the not like other girls syndrome) and exploring the 'real world' (being forced to grow up too quickly) while fighting the realisation that maybe the world sucks and being a woman is so difficult while hoping with all your heart that it's not always going to be this way.

Losing touch with the very things that made you happy because they're considered immature and girly? (The group of teens that said they hadn't played with Barbies since they were five.)

Older women telling you that you have to learn the truth about the world and that you can never have your old life back (Kate Mckinnon's Barbie) despite it being the only thing you yearn for, but also older women being a bright spot and support (the old woman on the bench) in the endless slough of life.

And this is just the trailer!!! I'm so excited for this movie I can't breathe, Greta Gerwig the woman that you are 😭

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im going to be so fucking annoying when this movie comes out its embarrassing

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Barbie is having an existential crisis due to girls being forced to mature very early in their life meanwhile Ken is still in his ignorance is a bliss phase because "boys will be boys"-

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conflicting reviews on tumblr.com

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i love being a woman in stem !!

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i may be a stem girl but oh my god i love ancient history so much it's so fun and interesting

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about soph

☆ my pronouns are she/her, i'm from australia, i'm a scorpio, i'm asexual. i love taylor swift, david bowie, lana del rey, and most other pop or 70s music.

♧ currently, i'm rereading the book thief, and reading the secret history. in terms of fics, i just reread 'tis the damn season and am in the middle-ish of cadence of part time poets.

♡ other things... i love converse. i collect cds. i'm a stem girl who loves to read and draw. i play the euphonium. and i took the pics in my header and pfp, as well as the 3 in this post!! also.. andrew garfield.

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mirrorball girlies always fall for the gold rush girlies because the gold rush girlies are everything the mirrorball girlies wanted to be naturally because they never had to rebuild or break themselves down to be liked and admired by others