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here-there-everyfuckenwhere · 2 years

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I’ve honestly been feeling really burnt out and stressed recently for no reason. I literally don’t understand why!!

I used to love uni and studying and all that but honestly these past few weeks I’ve just been dreading it completely and I’ve been so unproductive. I’ve turned in three assignments late for the semester already, and I’m very close to failing an elective because I’ve just given up. And the more I put things off the more overwhelming they get until it just feels like I’m drowning..

#personal #delete later #ray rants and junk #but the thing is though #it’s just uni!!#like I’ve been feeling so sosososo incredibly good and happy recently #been getting back into reading #and art #and music #and just #generally feeling really good #but I don’t understand why I’m struggling so much with studying #I know it’s kind of a cliche at this point to just blame everything on the pandemic and lockdowns but #I really do think this is like #residual trauma from having to do VCE during lockdown #how I just studied 24/7 for two whole years of my life because I had nothing else to do ever #and now I’m so scared of falling into that trap that I prioritise everything over it #and then I feel.. guilty?#because I got to go to uni and I’m not even prioritising it???#idk..#I’m literally getting sad typing this..#and then because I’m drowning in work at uni I feel like I can’t even post on here as much #like I promise I would LOVE to update my fanfic way more often than I do but everytime I even open the word document #I feel like.. guilty?? because I’m like ‘I SHOULD be working on prescribed work for uni not something that brings me joy that I do for #no reason’ ya know??#and that sucks!!!!

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anxiouslittlecarrot · 1 year

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I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to radically change the way we collectively see Barbie into what Ruth Handler originally intended, I’m so very excited

#I’m sorry for the rant I feel very strongly about this #I have more Barbie History if you want it #I did a full dive into Barbie History for a uni project and it was the best thing it changed the way I see her forever #she’s EVERYTHING he’s just her boyfriend Ken #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #carrot.txt

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bluecoffeebeanz · 3 months

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