Remember When People Were Like "emerald Fennel Couldn't Possibly Have Anything To Say Or Make Anything

remember when people were like "emerald fennel couldn't possibly have anything to say or make anything resembling art because she's rich and that why saltburn is bad"?

Saltburn (2023) x Ophelia (1851)

don’t!!! fake!!!! your!!!! interests!!!! to!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

Food in the west nowadays is crazy because you can put it into two distinct categories.

The first is made up of foods that actually nourish you and your organs and the second is literal poison sold by conglomerates for the purpose of making money, and if you eat only category A you get treated like you either have an ED or you're a health nut but the general consensus is some perceived abnormality and if you can cook and eat only category A then you're a chef or a tradwife psyop (hello Nara Smith).

However if you eat mostly or only B then you're seen as standard and normal.

Then we have people that act like unless you sprinkle in category B foods into your diet (again poison) then your diet is ''unbalanced'' and too restrictive.

The kicker is that category B stuff isn't real food and doesn't even taste good compared to real food.

Remove health and weight from the conversation for a second a be real, Mcdonald's ''burgers'' for example taste like crap especially compared to a burger cooked well and made of actual beef, twinkies compared to a home made vanilla cake are gagworthy ( even without the comparison tbh).

Eating a diet of real food is the best bet in terms of health benefits and taste.

No you don't need this week's new superfood propped up by vapid influencers nor do you need to starve or cut out food groups.

Just eat real food.

Just eat real meat and real plants ( no need to be cutting out grains or starches either) , buy them in their raw forms and cook them yourself according to your body's needs and flavours you prefer.

You'll see infinitely better results than any restrictive diet, and your body will run so much better when UPF is not in it on a constant basis.)

i hate how "being a girl's girl" has replaced feminism. I hate that enforced conformity has replaced genuine compassion for and solidarity with other women. I hate how women call each other "pick me's" for not conforming to femininity or for daring to critique something other women like. I hate how we just keep finding new socially acceptable ways to bully other women for being unattractive or outspoken or difficult or complicated or weird or ambitious or for not performing femininity. I hate those front facing camera "comedians" whose whole thing is making up a straw-woman to make fun of. I hate the obsession with "girlhood" and clinging to being a girl instead of a woman. i hate "the girl version of the roman empire" and "girlhood" and it's just consumerism and I hate the characterisation of girlhood as passivity, niceness, sweetness, helplessness and frivolity and I hate the revival of gender essentialism even as a joke!!!

I genuinely do think Saltburn is a lot deeper than many people give it credit for. It's not specifically a movie about class commentary, but there are a lot of great messages that can be read out of it, including on class commentary.

It's just that these messages are a lot broader in scope than purely class commentary. It's a movie about greed, obsession, and wanting to fit in to a world that has classed you as an outsider before you got through the door, and it explores these themes, among other things, through intersections of bigotry and entitlement along multiple axes, through the effects of loneliness and repression and what can happen when you're allowed a taste of everything you want but know it might be only fleeting.

It is a movie about how your actions are your own, regardless of whether or not someone else is doing something questionable or outright harmful at the same time - especially when you didn't even know about the other person's actions when you made your own choice to do something cruel.

And it baffles me when people claim that they found the movie boring and don't have any interest in thinking too deeply about it, but then follow up their lack of interest with the claim that there's nothing in the movie to think very deeply about anyway.

Personal preferences are subjective, everyone's allowed to like what they like and dislike what they don't, and not everyone needs the same messages from the stories that speak most meaningfully to their lives. But disliking a thing is not the same as that thing having no substance for others to enjoy.

The water is not made more shallow just because you chose not to dive in.