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Male Gaze, Abelism & Racism: Problems With The Women In Stranger Things

electricplants:

akajustmerry:

I wrote about some of the issues I have with the way the Duffer Brothers write women in Stranger Things,

“Imagine an Eleven that doesn’t care she has a shaved head because hey
guess what she’s not locked in a lab and she’s safe. Imagine an Eleven
who has never met a girl her own age before so she’s excited when she
meets one for the first time and she’s a cool skate-boarding chick and
Eleven’s never skated before so she wants to learn. Imagine an Eleven
curious to learn how big the world really is. Eleven’s character growth
could be so much stronger if the Duffer Brothers weren’t so caught up in
their simplistic problematic understanding of femininity and womanhood.”

Male Gaze, Abelism & Racism: Problems With The Women In Stranger Things

stranger things kids as john mulaney quotes

pynch-centric:

Eleven: “Excuse me, I’m new in town and it gets worse.”

Will: “I have had a very long day. I am very small. And I have no money. So you can imagine the kind of stress that I am under.”

Mike: “’Cause you know how you lie to your parents?”

Lucas: “I also don’t want me to be doing what I’m doing.”

Dustin: “They’re like, ‘Does that work?’ I’m like, ‘It didn’t NOT work.’”

Max: “Sometimes, babies will point at me. And I don’t care for that shit at all.” 

Steve: “Part of me was like, whatever, you know, you know those days when you’re like this might as well happen? Our life is already so goddamn weird.”

Nancy: ♫ And life is a fucking nightmare ♫

Jonathan: “When I’m walking down the street, no one’s ever like, ‘Hey look at that man.’ I think they’re just like, ‘Whoa, that tall child looks terrible! Get some rest, tall child! You can’t keep burning the candle at both ends!’”

Billy: “Well… you know how I’m filled with rage? I’m so horny and angry all the time and I have no outlet for it. So… eggs.” 

(BONUS ADULTS)

Joyce: “I think Emily Dickinson’s a lesbian.”

Hopper: “It is 100% easier not to do things than to do them.”

Bob: “I look like I was just sitting in a room in a chair eating Saltines for like 28 years and then I walked right out here.”

zombeesknees:

jedileiaorgana:

Eleven + wearing other people’s clothes

#regarding the ‘sherif puts eggos in a box in the woods’ scene the writers said that  #they haven’t written/planned season 2 but that they like the idea of putting those 2 characters together  #which I have to say I’m all about  #bc the implication has been ‘oh winona ryder will take her’  #or like ‘she’ll easily integrate into a house she’s been covertly staying in the basement of’  #and it just sounds a bit like ‘oh they’re mums – they can just take her in no problem’  #like that’s the purpose of mums  #and apparently there’s no problem with that scenario?  #and like no  #how about we put her in with Human Disaster Sherrif  #bc the problems with *that* scenario are narratively awesome  #a) he’s a Human Disaster but we know that last time he WAS functional was when he was caregiver to a daughter  #b) she is also a small Human Disaster and if she wanted to eat a box of eggos and not talk he’d probably be ‘OK then’  #and not be concerned with concepts outside her immediate physical safety for a while  #like Eleven does not need a suburban household who says ‘don’t do that its weird and upsetting’ when she does things  #it’d be kind of nice if she had an environment where someone was like ‘r u well-slept well-fed clean and safe right now?’  #‘OK then sit on the floor and be non verbal then that is 100% a-ok’  #(and he’d probably just be like ‘well I’ll just sit on the floor too then I guess’)  #what I’m doing here is making a ripley/newt parallel of human disasters who are better together  #and how ripley is a semi-functioning ptsd wreck but she’s still like ‘OK I’m washing your face’  #and I can see that dynamic playing out with eleven and hopper to my great satisfaction and entertainment