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So many.... literally SO MANNNYY takes on how Go Da-rim is a bad character cause she should have told the truth to the ML without him knowing.
Like people, it's a character so close to reality. If this was a man, people would have lapped it up but because its a woman she either has to be Ms. Goody two shoes or she is a bad character.
For godsakes we are finally getting female characters who are close to reality, grounded in their humanity with all their flaws, and you seek angelic showcasing of all of them. It's not just this show, it's every show where the female character is slightly flawed or heavily self-centred (which is a strong word for a character who keeps her and her family first, (again not used for men)) like penelope in bridgerton. Suddenly she is not worthy of love, she is bad, not worth bring rooted for.
These people literally destroy shows with their demands of a FL with god like morals (usually patriarchal in their demands). Like there are way too many women characters who fit your goody two shoes description. Please watch those and please let us watch women characters who finally think of themselves and do not automatically become unworthy of love and care. Also notice how all these rants are only against the FL when clearly there are three characters in the know and can tell the ML about it ??!
And also, OMG, how tough is it to realise that this is a woman in her 30s with no work experience, having a sudden burden of a sickly mother and a lost house and an initial hondlum threat(most of which is not her fault) and she has to make do somehow. Telling anyone anything, even the caring ML, who is a comparative stranger, might just risk her one source of income she has somehow and finally come across. It is so clear she is kind and so evident that she also has feelings for the ML that gets her confused most of the time but is it really enough to risk it? How tough is it to understand that a 3rd person POV means you see both the sides.
Did i want her to tell the truth.... absolutely.....should she have...NO!
I'm trying to see something.... please help
Marriage as a social concept is unfair to women
yes
no
People pls. Amber Heard and Blake Lively cannot be compared.
JB hiring a PR company (who has previously managed johnny depp) especially in light of the extremely toxic mean girl smear campaign against him is just him choosing a good PR company that can do the job from his side (he is literally alone on one side while the cast is on the other). It is just like people hiring the services of a lawyer, a lawyer can have represented many people including some morally questionable ones but that's because everyone has a right of legal representation and that is literally his job. That
a) doesn't define him and
b) doesn't define his future clients.
He will be hired cause he is good at his job.
Now coming to calling Blake Lively being called out, I get it, she has been your favourite for a long long time, but can you really not see the absolute tone deafness in all her statements. You cannot claim to be a girl's girl without holding people responsible accountable. She is undermining a major issue faced by centuries of women, she is downplaying a serious movie to have her moments with her brand and husband and if all you can see is "oh a woman is being called out" instead of "oh an influential person, who has played a central role in a movie about an imp. topic of conversation, is being held accountable for being tone deaf" then maybe you need to have a relook on your strong clenched beliefs.
Don't blame a man for being a better feminist than the woman he worked with. It can be the case, it is the case here even though we wished it wasn't. It's a great time to check your unchallenged love for celebrities is all I can say.
Justin baldoni decided to adapt It Ends With Us because he thought that stories about domestic violence, and specifically escaping and life beyond domestic violence deserved to be platformed.
Instead of being supported, he’s been mean girl’d by the cast; that’s treating the film like its this cutesy rom com : and I think this rly encapsulates everything that’s wrong with the book, and the fanbase it’s amassed
Those saying its just a woman doing business to attract audiences......F*** your hypocrisy, if it was anyone but blake lively ( a friend of TS) the narrative would have been very different.
Call the film what it is. Put the attention there. Its a conversation on DV and why victims can't just "choose better". Just because its a man talking and actually being the feminist he claims to be, the entire narrative about him not marketing the movie as planned is such BS, especially seeing his role in the making of this movie. No! Blake Lively is the one not doing what she's always claimed to be. Dont drag JB through the mud just cause your fav. Can't do any better. Call her out when she deserves.
I get it, you're her fan. But she really isn't a family member you can ignore cause she means well. She is a celebrity with a pedestal.
it’s crazy how men have turned “victim” into an insult. like it's a crime you committed rather than crime that was committed against you. such masterclass gaslighting. “you have victim mentality” it’s CALLED ptsd, you muppet.
Woman: My boyfriend is such a golden retriever
Me (trying to be open minded but clearly disgusted): Oh cool. I didn't know certain laws had changed
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
I've been sitting on this since Bridgerton Season 3 ended, to really consider it and what I think. And the TLDR is that the actors across the board, but particularly Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Hannah Dodd, and Victor Alli, knocked it out of the park. Fabulous performances. But the structural and narrative arc writing from the Bridgerton writer's room (particularly in terms of cul de sacs and blatant contradictions and everything about Lady Whistledown--but not the switch from Michael to Michaela Stirling; I'm actually intrigued to see where they're going with that) was absolutely appalling. More below the break for anyone who wants to keep reading.
But, like, the inherent sensuality of a writer/painter pairing 🩵 new Penedict edit!
Prior highlights!
I'm a Polin supporter through and through, but this would have been an amazing storyline. Also luke Thompson and Nicola Coughlan would have eaten it up.
Colin would not have left that the room if he found her like this
Served cunt, caused problems, took names, healed generational trauma, made bank, gave face, rode dick, a whole MOTHER (metaphorically and literally) at the age of 20.
Penelope Bridgerton; they can never make me hate you.
I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.
Unpopular opinion: what I liked the most about the season was its... PR.
Which ultimately created too much hype and breaking the season in two parts didn't help.
🦚 COLIN FEATHERINGTON BRIDGERTON 🦚
Look at you with your slutty little swagger.
And your slutty little (trying so hard to match) florals.
And your slutty little mint green cravat (a color you have never worn a day in your life, Sir.)
All gussied up in your bloody 🦚FEATHERINGTON BAT SIGNAL MATING DANCE OUTFIT. 🦚
That you specifically packed in a travel bag to wear for when you saw her. Even though she didn’t respond to any of your letters.
Only obsessed with her after the kiss my ass.
Psh, boy, please. You are not fooling anyone. You luuuuuuuuurve her. You always have.
This fandom created a myth about Lady Whistledown. Sometimes i wonder if i watched the same show. Let me make myself clear: While Penelope has to tell Colin the truth, because she loves him and he deserves it, LW helped the Bridgertons a lot actually. It saved them to have Daphne married to a creep ( and see how Violet wanted people to talk to reach LW and spread), saved Colin from a loveless marriage with children that he didn't know anything about it and saved Eloise. Yes, it saved Eloise. Eloise created and kept pushing the situation in her reckless pursuit. Eloise also didn't think about the consequences of her action towards the people working for LW, didn't listen to Penelope, didn't think about the risk she was putting people at. And while i understand her anger in not knowing, had she been a better friend, many other things would be different, because she truly never paid attention to what Penelope feels or want, she molded Pen to be whom she wanted and be her audience. And then, she left Pen with the choice of losing all she built and suffer consequences or pick the less harmful option: to make Eloise's scandal about politics, not romantic and save them both, plus Theo. The real ruin for Eloise would've been her being caught with Theo, something that was bound to happen as she was not careful at all. Why should Pen sacrifice all for Eloise? Would any of you sacrifice all ( job, family and possibly your liberty) for a friend who caused the bloody situation? I'm no hypocrite, i know i wouldnt. Not to mention Eloise bravado, to Pen she would say she wants to challenge society and doesn't care about what they think...but folded the moment she received a frown from the Ton. Shall we see who are LW victims, people that suffered real consequences? Lord Beerbrock. That's it. Marina is married, despite her lies and deceit. Colin? Nothing as well, in fact, happier than ever. Eloise? A few weeks of ostracism and she's back without a problem, without a romantic entanglement to ruin her. One that she clearly didn't really thought was deep enough to face society. The Bridgertons have more to thank LW than to hate her. And Violet and Anthony, i bet your asses, do think so, and see it. And The Queen? Are you watching the show? Have you seen Charlotte's personality? That woman loves the whole game with LW. And She loves to take it all, to receive the laurels of that society. As long as she can make it look like the won, and she can, easily, by revealing or be involved in revealing who is LW. See the whole KatexEdwina, how she handled the Ton there.
Anyway, just wanted to say something because some people have dreamed a LW that doesn't exist at all. Created on their own minds a boogeyman that wasn't simply reporting the truth with witty opinions but fabricating stories and lies to ruin lives, and that's simply not true. Never happened. There was never a lie created there. Only the truth, even about herself, as Pen was often damaged by her column.