Well, I tried to watch Blonde, and I couldn’t do it. Half way through it, I was regretting turning it on. Not because Ana de Armas did a bad job – she didn’t. She was great.
But the content was a lot and I feel like that was a trigger warning missing from the beginning of the movie.
Because there should have been one. Right from the very beginning.
Before trying to watch the movie (which hey, I was excited for) I had seen that Emily Ratajkowski had posted a TikTok about Blonde, and I didn’t get it. But after trying to watch the movie, I get it.
“I’m not surprised to hear it’s yet another movie fetishizing female pain even in death,” said Ratajkowski. “We do that in many, many different ways, but I want that to change.”
In the video she also said, “We love to fetishize female pain. And I think as women, I can say for myself for sure, I’ve learned how to fetishize my own pain and my own hurt in my life so that it feels like something that can be tended to that’s kind of sexy.”
She added, “I want that to change. But I was thinking about it and you know what’s kind of hard to fetishize? Anger. Anger is hard to fetishize.”
“So I have a proposal. I think we all need to be a little more pissed off. I’m gonna be in my witch era. 2022, baby, is my bitch era.” she finished off the post.
See the TikTok video below –
@emrata So done with the fetishization of female pain and suffering. Bitch Era 2022
♬ original sound – Emrata
Do you agree? Disagree?
