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Ya ever feel like the ideal body type for women was inherently just classism and the perfect way to treat women like trophies because like back when women were Thick™ as an ideal body type the only women who were able to look like that were the rich and today now the type is super thin and the only women who can look like that are the women who don’t work labour jobs and can afford not to have a carb diet so basically men only go for rich women and have changed how they objectify women not because of some biological quirk that shifts their lust but entirely because the form of the most privileged women has changed therefore the best trophy to keep
It literally was. Fat was hype when malnutrition and starvation were common. A symbol of leisure.
Gucci Skinny was hype when malnutrition from cheap food was common and when most of the middle class had desk jobs. Symbol of control over women who now had more rights.
Instagram Fit ™ is hype because most people are overworked and too broke to exercise or eat properly. A symbol of “leisure” and wealth.
Its the same thing with skin color as well rich woman were pale because they didnt work outside and dark skin woman worked outside.
There is sincerely nothing that could ever possibly prepare you for what this movie is actually about or any of the major things that happen in it. We just spontaneously saw the dub up on kimcartoon and thought it just looked like a quirky, wacky foreign cartoon to watch but if you’re in any kind of emotionally sensitive place I’m begging you not to ever watch it all alone, I swear to fucking god you have never seen or imagined a storyline this brutal in an animated children’s movie. You cried a little at The Land Before Time? Maybe the Iron Giant? Maybe Pixar’s “UP?” This one will murder you. You think I’m joking and I’m not joking, and it’s not just that it’s “sad” or “sweet,” there are dark places it goes that warrant serious warnings but I can’t think of how to warn you about them without spoiling it so please just do your best to decide if you really think you’re the kind of person who can handle “anything” a technically kid-safe movie might throw at you
Okay I guess what I can tell you is that the villain of this movie is ableism
There’s a great spoiler-free article on Cartoon Brew about how difficult it was to get it made at all:
“Ana and Bruno, which premiered at this year’s Annecy animation
festival in France, is the long-awaited debut animated feature by
director Carlos Carrera, a cg horror movie for children that also seeks
to challenge viewers’ stereotypes of poverty and mental illness.”
Okay slightly more of a spoiler, but really you’ll learn most of this in the first 15 minutes of it anyway if you decide to see this movie:
A little girl (Ana) and her mother are committed to a barbaric psychiatric ward because they both hallucinate a demonic monster coming to kill them. The ward however is full of friendlier hallucinations and manifestations of the ward’s other patients, and Ana gets their help trying to free her mother before she has to endure electroshock therapy.
It isn’t flawless and it plays some weird things for laughs (obviously) but the mental patients are only treated as innocent victims of a terrible institution and it even takes a moment to show that the “regular” people going about their lives out in the city are living with lots of mental illnesses too, that it’s just a fact of life.
There’s more to it but that’s the stuff that just cannot be spoiled and even if you pick up on its twists early on their final execution is possibly still gonna slay you
“Unappropriated Beauty“ is a poster ad campaign tackling the issue of cultural appropriation in a non-accusatory, educational way. These adverts are size-compatible to fit in different settings, including bus shelters, billboards, mobile devices, and magazines. The goal of this project is to educate the consumers of appropriative media so that they are better equipped to decide for themselves what is and what is not cultural appropriation, and therefore lowering the tolerance for appropriation being applauded in the media.
