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The reason why Scream's genre awareness works so well is because the point is hypocrisy. They're all mocking characters in horror movies, only to make the same mistakes once they're in a horror movie themselves. Sidney thinks girls who run up the stairs instead of out the door are stupid, because Sidney doesn't know what it's like to be so afraid that you don't think. Randy wants the horror protagonists to look behind them, because he doesn't know what it's like to assume you're safe and then not be. Even Billy & Stu think they're smarter than movie villains only to find out that they can also be killed.

Fear makes you stupid, and we can think that we're better than horror movie victims when really it's just the fact that we've never had to face fear like that. The characters in Scream suffer because they assume they're invulnerable, and the purpose is that they are very much not.

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they've fucked before I just can't prove it

snowbairdd

Please don't talk to yourself. It's one of your more freakish Needy behaviors and it makes us both look like total gaylords.

JENNIFER'S BODY (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama

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JENNIFER'S BODY (2009) : dir. Karyn Kusama

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JENNIFER'S BODY

2009, dir. Karyn Kusama

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JENNIFER'S BODY

2009, dir. Karyn Kusama

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Constantine (2005) dir. Francis Lawrence

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i love Stu's (Matthew's) expressions, he's so silly and i love him

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The Haunting (1999) dir. Jan de Bont

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The Haunting (1999) dir. Jan de Bont

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SCREAM (1996) dir. Wes Craven

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giggly!

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Scream (1996) dir. Wes Craven

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SCREAM 1996, dir. Wes Craven

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“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it.

(via iamayoungfeminist)