#monologues for women

[noecoded]

scwibbles

[teplejtrouba]

a detective who has a partner🔍 and a partner💕 who are friends so the three of them end up doing a lof things together and the detective refers to them as "my partners" and doesn't realise this makes everyone think they're polyamorous (they do end up polyamorous by the end of the story)

[headkiss]

amy march was so real when she said i want to be great or nothing

[eternaldisguise]

From Barbie (2023) 🩷

[anchored-nyctophilia]

my roman empire is the cool girl monologue from gone girl

[super-nova5045]

i think the reason oliver is such a compelling character - or at least to me, he is - is because in the end…he wins! he gets what he wants and comes out on top.

in this modern world everyone is a bit of an oliver. crippling social anxiety, awkward, booksmart, and later in the film mostly queer audiences STILL find themselves relating to oliver’s struggle of how to express a desire that is so unconventional, so disturbing, so queer. normally in shows like this - shows with stunning rich people and their stunning social skills - the social outcast remains a social outcast. the queercoded character does not get their happy ending and remains the perpetual butt of the joke.

but in saltburn? saltburn almost has a gone girl sort of ending in the way the supposed villain gets what they want in the end, and we’re rooting for them! we see a mostly unexplored perspective in cinema - the perspective of the outsider, of the freak, and we see just how awful these people - beautiful shiny upper class folk - are, and then this outsider, who has been patronised and placed on a pedestal and humiliated, gets his revenge and gets everything he desired in the end. and in a world where queer, different characters are killed off or side lined or made fun off for whom or what they desire, oliver stands out, because he gets what he desires and he makes the audience root for him while he’s doing it.

[cinnmongirll]

what if i told you i'm a mastermind?

[resident-gay-bitch]

Just opened tik tok and seen all this golden globes jo koy shit and all I have to say is listen to the laughs. They’re all the exact same. It’s laugh tracks. No one found that shit funny.

[roachmattea]

i need paige bueckers biblically

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

America Ferrera :: The Barbie Movie

Here is Gloria’s monologue in its entirety:

It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong.

You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can’t ask for money because that’s crass. You have to be a boss, but you can’t be mean. You have to lead, but you can’t squash other people’s ideas. You’re supposed to love being a mother, but don’t talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman, but also always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men’s bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you’re accused of complaining. You’re supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you’re supposed to be a part of the sisterhood. But always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged. So find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful. You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line. It’s too hard! It’s too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.

I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing women, then I don’t even know.

[Los Angeles Times]

[transformers-bold-bright-brisk]

Oh yeah! Did I forget to mention i totally ship Starclaw?… Sharpdrive??… Sharpstar???… Clawdrive????

There are just so many possibilities, like you wouldn’t believe…

[lavender-gayz]

why is it always 'what the fuck now lizzie?' and 'why didn't you destroy the dress lizzie?' how about 'did you have fun with the axe lizzie? it looked like you had fun'

[yestheantichrist]

Headcanon that the Pure Vessel has no idea what gender or pronouns are.

Knight very much knows what gender and pronouns are and goes by they/them, Hornet also knows and prefers she/her. But Hollow was just… not taught about that. To them gender was something that they didn’t have and that’s that. And I don’t think they talked to enough people to understand the idea.

Cue to them misinterpreting a conversation with Hornet and thinking that “woman” is just another word for a Spider Tribe member

[honkifyourelonely]

reading the little women musical libretto for a class assignment and uh-oh... the transmasculinity... whoops...

[queenie435]

Hi Barbie and others

[betelgeusing]

I hate that I even know enough to have an opinion but the most honest and genuine moment in the Barbie movie was when Ken was getting frustrated and accused that one guy of not even knowing how to do patriarchy and the guy said (paraphrased) "oh no we're doing it. We just are really good at keeping it quiet now" and if that wasn't a metaphor for the entire movie... like they can lampshade it and cast Will Ferrell as the chair of the all-male Mattel board haha funny but it doesn't make it not TRUE

Warner Brothers leadership:

Barbie wasn't even written entirely by a woman or women

Over half of Barbie's 15 producers were men

And academy membership:

It was always a patronizing "we'll let the girls have their little movie" that was never a threat to any of the men making millions on it or deciding what men to reward for it or pretending to be chastened when their gfs or wives sat them down to watch it and I hate being down here in the mud even talking about it but it pisses me off that donkeybrained liberals are taking shots at a talented indigenous woman bc their precious "statement" movie isn't collecting as many Oscar noms as they wanted it to, when the number it rightfully deserved is zero

Also if they were really serious about "doing feminism" they wouldn't have fucking campaigned for Ryan Gosling to get a nod to begin with