rosesrambles

[rosesrambles]

on barbie and the oscars

barbie was snubbed. and for people saying such a basic feminist movie didn't deserve to be nominated then you're wrong. greta gerwig and margot robbie were amazing. but there were so many movies snubbed, specifically movies with a poc cast.

the colour purple, origin, and more were ignored this season. but lucy gladstone is making history.

it's complicated because, yes, barbie is feminism 101 but so many people needed that. it got banned because of the feminism. but it is still almost the bare minimum and yet we needed the bare minimum. calling her a doll with big boobs when the movie was all about why she wasn't just that, people missing the point, calling it man hating, everything.

we win some. we lose some. but we lose so many. women, especially women of colour, deserve to be noticed and awarded for the amazing work they do. and not just as some diversity point. we aren't a quota to reach. we're talented and multi-faceted and we deserve just as much praise as the men this award season.

oppenheimer was good but it also ignored the fact the nuclear bomb destroyed so many people of colour's lives. sure, he regretted it but isn't that just realising the consequences for your own actions? and i understand that after he was against using it, he was called a communist. i understand the movie is about oppenheimer. i understand that. but it's just another movie in a long line of movies that ignores the suffering of people of colour. it risks glorifying the work of a white man while simultaneously ignoring the japanese victims and the indigenous people that are still suffering from the bomb tests to this day. but can we truly trust hollywood to represent those people's stories and do them justice? especially with hollywood's long history? probably not.

i think what i'm trying to say in my rambling is that barbie deserves recognition for what it is and what it has done but that so did the colour purple and origin and greta lee.

but you can say barbie was snubbed while also acknowledging so were others and that despite that lily gladstone is making history.

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girlhood is knowing this off by heart

AMY & LAURIE in Little Women (2019)