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.”

teelasucks:

lostinmysticfalls:

I’m like his mother. I have to keep him in check. (x)

itabiadraws:

Hopper + Eleven scenes are literally my favourite part of the entire show.

kaleidoscopic-quiddity:

richardgoranski:

stranger things 3 should have a filler episode that doesnt even have to have anything to do with the plot of the season, it’s just will byers with his friends having a good day and thriving

Hey op? brilliant post

mendlergf:

steve harrington:

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.”