Female friendship is a hard concept to quantify in any passable script. Too many films of the late nineties and early aughts focused on a message of watered down white feminism and gurl power euphemisms instead of creating fleshed out characters.
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Female friendship is a hard concept to quantify in any passable script. Too many films of the late nineties and early aughts focused on a message of watered down white feminism and gurl power euphemisms instead of creating fleshed out characters.
The norm for women is to passively deal with real and imagined slights to accommodate thinner people which is where we start with Annie. It’s one thing to tell women to show more confidence, but to really know the price of presenting your true self it’s unclear what that looks like for full figured people.
The Women was a 1936 play written by Clara Boothe Luce that ran for 657 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York. Besides being known as a comedy of manners, the play utilized an all-important and rare gimmick: the entire cast, down to the background players, animals, and set decoration, only featured women.
Though the show is still eccentric and funny in the best of ways, its seasonal arc completely falls apart by episode two and never picks up again.
In Esco's defense the cause she is advocating for is worth the buzz surrounding this film. Women should have just as much freedom to go topless as men, whose bare nipples can be exposed in all 50 states, without prosecution
There’s a fierce debate within the feminist community as to whether pornography is exploitative, woman-hating, and offensive, or a tool to express one’s sexuality. From this ruckus have come two documentaries, each made by women, each showcasing a different side of pornography’s vast reach
