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Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard
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Visual and Other Pleasures, Laura Mulvey
Right Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin
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Essays
Always be Optimizing, Jia Tolentino
The Double Standard of Aging, Susan Sontag
There’s Nothing Scarier Than a Hungry Woman by Laura Maw
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whoa that is so much harsher than I've ever been with myself, even as an adolescent girl I believed in my intrinsic value beyond my appearance. That's quite harsh
– Is there live after death?
– It is very likely that the person continues to be, but stops eating.
– Why then does he need the resurrection of the body?
– To come to oneself.
Your channel is my favorite❤
i’ve made sure my notifications are on for this channel multiple times and youtube refuses to notify me when you drop a video 😭
i am so glad to have gotten an introspective on this movie from you! absolutely fantastic work! 🥳
Thank you for your video, great work as always! You lead me to some new thoughts about the movie that has already stolen my heart. Watching the movie was at the same time painful and affirming, I felt like I knew exactly the pain that she feels.This is real art.
1 hour long final girls studio video what a beautiful thing to wake up to
Another amazing and layered analysis. I hadn't heard of this movie at all until stumbling upon your video. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos!
This made me feel weird, I'm not a woman but it did make me feel something like sadness because of aging. I just like to add that I don't feel like women are only valued by their youth, in some industries of course, but not in life as a whole
Great video-essay, thank you!
I absolutely love your videos but a leave feeling so depressed
I wonder if this is where the idea of “I can’t eat a treat alone, if you don’t eat ice cream, I can’t eat ice cream “
i knew you were gunna do an analysis on this movie. i’m so happy with how it turned out. also, i never get tired of the john berger quote. it inspired my master’s thesis
I just want to Say You are wonderful and your channel amazing!❤❤❤
I can't even say how much this speaks to me. My past, present, anxieties about the future. Amazing work 👏
One should call this channel, Final Girl Studies. I need to rewatch this, but taking notes. Thanks professor, you are brilliant.
I literally didn't watch any other youtuber's video on this movie because i was waiting for you to talk about it. happy halloween to me!
I thought of your Lolita video after watching The Substance, I’m so happy you made a vid about it! ❣️
her star at the end is cracked. the only thing she wanted in her life is imperfect. it is not “beautiful” but in the end thats what ppl will see when looking down on it
perfect video, loved the movie! i wish you could do a similar video about RAW/grave, movie from the same director from TITANE, Julia Ducournau. Its a shame how underrated it is.
"signaling you are as close to consuming nothing at all – diet coke" wow lol never thought of that…. SIMULACRUM. learned a new powerful word just now! thank you !! 💜 this describes so much i would cry, if i had emotions to spare right now lol. truly … story of my life.
Though it's not until this video, i truly understand what i was going through ten years ago… i got my first boyfriend when i was 18-22 and as i dated him i developed ED… i never knew why exactly. i just knew i was so uncomfortable being this thing "ready to be consumed" .. i did not like it. all i was good for was my body, not my mind… weirdly as we broke up, it didn't go away, this manic need to be perfection, but it did cure my ED… But i still strived for being this BEAUTIFUL thing as best i could for many years… it was only when illness and turning 30 hit me, that i was forced to let go of this insane chase for perfection. i could finally consume myself. i think, most men don't really look at me now. compared to how much they used to stare. and what a relief!!! i feel like my beauty has faded due to my illness. But the freedom i have felt, not having to perform prettiness anymore, is truly a great pressure off my life.
not kidding when i say this is one of the best videos i have ever watched, in this type of category. 💜
Im sorry to be a party pooper but Matrix part 1 was released in 1999 not 2001
I am seated for this mother🧎♀️💗
Most complete analysis so far
As someone who suffered from an eating disorder and is still healing from it, you said some shit in this video that I needed to hear.
Thank you for what you do.
Fantastic essay! Thank you for it!
kinda like that fleabag scene where she's asked "who would like to lose 5 years of their life for the perfect body"
Outstanding work. As always.
I can't help but think how difficult it must be for a woman to be so obsessed with her "performative femininity". Honestly, most of the time people are too busy with their own lives to watch and judge you while you eat alone. Nobody cares, to be honest. You may feel it, but it is a projection of your own self-absorbtion.