https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1614881646577-4RD4ZAVSL9CLURNBXOKC/2.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/west-end-girl monthly 0.5 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/60265c1c-47c3-4b1d-84c7-8eb0e2fa2c1f/West+End+Girl+Album+Art The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - I Love Lily Allen - So… I am completely obsessed with her new album West End Girl which was released in late-October of 2025. I listened to it for the first time in November and since then have probably listened to it hundreds of times. No joke, HUNDREDS. On New Years eve day alone I played it through start to finish 7 times(!). Let’s put it this way: I already know my Spotify wrapped for 2026. So WTF is up with West End Girl? In short, the album is the narrative of the dissolution of Lily Allen’s marriage to actor, David Harbor (Hopper in Stranger Things). https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/on-broadways-suffs monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1a11baec-6873-4c4e-ba03-e0396f294efa/Suffs-Playbill-2024-03-26_Web-1.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” Okay, if I’m being totally honest, I was really nervous to see this show for several reasons. Reason number one? I had seen Illinoise earlier that day and it was beautiful, and breathtaking, and awe-inspiring, and the images and moments on stage from that show will stay with me long after I left the theatre. Then I saw Oh, Mary, which was literally painful. Painful, in that I laughed SO HARD during that show that my face actually hurt when I left the theatre. Seriously, I had to massage my jaw on my way out. It was the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen on Broadway, and I was shocked that something so gay, so irreverent, so (almost) sacrilegious, SO SUBVERSIVE ever made it to a Broadway stage. I was actually feeling proud of Broadway audiences for embracing something so very “downtown” all the way up on 45th and Broadway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/bae860b2-75cd-4c2b-8db7-f69751df37c6/barbie.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” I was worried that it would be like the Barbie movie. I enjoyed it, sure, but it was like White Women’s Gender Studies 101. I’m glad that a few more people know what the patriarchy is now, and America Ferrara’s speech was ON POINT. But it wasn’t exactly ground-breaking for me. So yeah, very low expectations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/a84ad890-8b43-4946-ba6a-7ad357ccbe8e/1-jenn-colella-as-carrie-chapman-catt-and-suffs-company.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” The show began with the laugh line “Welcome, Gentleman” and I’ll admit, I did laugh at that… and then I looked at WHO was on stage… ALL WHITE WOMEN. Yes, there was one wheelchair user on stage, BUT they were ALL white. I rolled my eyes and prepared to be angry for the next two+ hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/4ca33fac-cd2b-4551-a8b8-12607d44e9e2/Screenshot+2024-08-27+at+2.51.25%E2%80%AFPM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” But then… more suffragists of color had something to say. Mary Church Terrell (Anastacia McCleskey) and her daughter, Phyllis (D’Kaylah Unique Whitley), come to join the rally and have an earnest debate with Wells (James) about the approach of “dignified agitation” versus radical action. Then Terrell and Phyllis sing, “Terrell’s Theme” and it was fantastic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/11bfe0d7-6010-454d-944c-6902d3c6641c/Suffs-Hannah-Cruz-as-Inez-Milholland-and-the-Suffs-Company.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” And THEN we see the march, with Inez Milholland (Cruz) riding a white horse into battle like some kind of Greek Goddess. (I’m always here for strong, beautiful woman riding horses… see my post on Thor: Love & Thunder and Tessa Thompson). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/d491a46b-1b59-4b33-87ad-d9089cb43197/3DZI6PBIZAI6TEDOTVK3MRI6WQ.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” As the curtain falls for the end of Act One, the image of the real Milholland on her white horse is suspended from floor to ceiling. That was the first time I cried. The fight continues in Act Two. The women come together as “Silent Sentinels” to protest at The Capitol and refuse to leave. Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Doris Stevens, and Ruza Wenclawska are arrested and thrown in jail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/8e1eaac4-e922-4612-9dcb-70697e28ea77/Hamilton-poster.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” Speaking of Hamilton… The musical was wildly successful (and frankly, I really do love the music), but it “brown-washes” the history of enslaved people by using Black and brown bodies to tell their stories. We LOVE Thomas Jefferson because we LOVE Daveed Diggs. But if there was a time machine to go back to the 1700s Jefferson would have owned Diggs. Friend and scholar, Donatella Gallela, in her 2018 article, “Being In ‘The Room Where It Happens’: Hamilton, Obama, and Nationalist Neoliberal Multicultural Inclusion” argues that the musical offers a kind of neoliberal and multicultural utopia (recall, a place that doesn’t exist) in which the American “meritocracy” is celebrated; racism, sexism, and the horrors of slavery are minimized; and the status quo is firmly upheld, rather than challenged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/b484c26f-8c58-47fa-89ba-4b489a8c788e/audre-lorde-1598383146.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Broadway’s “Suffs” Mary (McCleskey) takes a deep breath and responds, “I know, but I'm so tired of fighting.” It’s a heart-breaking and honest moment. We cannot celebrate fully. We cannot congratulate ourselves fully and pat ourselves on the back. Our work is not done. As Audre Lorde says in her 1981 book, Sister Outsider, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained.” Amen. https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/thank-you-nicola-coughlan monthly 0.5 2024-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/c442f0b2-064b-429c-94d6-f2384b333a03/Screenshot+2024-06-16+at+6.29.49%E2%80%AFPM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Thank you, Nicola Coughlan Yep. That Bridgerton. The over-the-top-production-value romance TV show out of Shondaland that has been binge-worthy viewing for two seasons. I’ve watched every episode. I love everything about this show. Sure, it’s a little heteronormative, but I see hints of transgression and homo-eroticism everywhere and I couldn’t wait to watch the new season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/4a17b5e6-6a8d-4ab1-9a4c-dd8ebf4297dc/Two+Bridgerton+Couples The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Thank you, Nicola Coughlan Each season is built on the foundation of a conventional romance plot. In season one we see the story of Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and The Duke (Rege Jean Page) who pretend to fall in love and then are caught off-guard when they actually do “burn for” each other and the show was beautiful and sexy and full of passion. Season two explored a Shakespearean Beatrice & Benedick vibe where lovers Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) hate and then realize they love one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/95d982f0-f980-4391-9cef-3e23d0f90c2d/Screenshot+2024-06-16+at+6.34.39%E2%80%AFPM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Thank you, Nicola Coughlan I watched the first four episodes when they dropped and the carriage scene… OMG. Then I re-watched the first four episodes in the couple of days before the second four episodes dropped and when I watched the scene again, I got to thinking… WHY I am I reacting so strongly to this scene. Bridgerton has never shied away from centering female pleasure (and THANK YOU for that). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/08a49f1f-c4b8-48ce-882d-5961cd2d42b0/The+Mirror+Scene The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Thank you, Nicola Coughlan He undresses her and looks at her. He actually sees her and helps her to see herself and then he tells her to “lie down,” undresses for her (and us I presume, based on the ways the camera pans up and down his abs) and then we’re in the throes of their first time together and Pen’s loss of virginity. It’s sexy, and the music swells, and the light glows from behind their bodies, and it’s beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/0f292977-23b5-4ad3-9fd6-1102c689de67/Screenshot+2024-06-16+at+6.43.25%E2%80%AFPM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Thank you, Nicola Coughlan I grew up in the 90s during the “heroin chic” era where models like Kate Moss were rumored to say things like, “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” I grew up constantly hearing about Weight Watchers points from my mom and the “South Beach Diet” from my dad. I grew up wanting to look like the models in the Delia*s catalog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/7ba535aa-e91e-4676-bf70-dd8d8c5bbe91/Screenshot+2024-06-16+at+6.46.32%E2%80%AFPM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Thank you, Nicola Coughlan I grew up watching movies where a 135-pound Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones’s Diary was considered fat. I remember watching Titanic and people talking about how fat Kate Winslet was. So, if they were fat, I must have been truly disgusting. I grew up surrounded by “low fat” Snackwell’s cookies and commercials for diet pills, and stores like “5,7,9” a store which only carried those sizes and nothing more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/72f88014-fb67-41f9-bc98-7b9fb79345d7/Screenshot+2024-06-16+at+6.53.37%E2%80%AFPM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Thank you, Nicola Coughlan I noticed myself noticing how beautiful Coughlan was and then realized that it was the first time in my entire life where a woman whose body was somewhat similar to mine was told she was beautiful and worthy of love… and by a handsome young Bridgerton man no less. The idea that a body like hers/ mine could be something not “to-be-covered-up” but rather to be celebrated as beautiful was, to be honest, one of the sexiest things I’ve ever fucking seen. And now I can’t unsee it. https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/fleishman-is-trouble-broke-me monthly 0.5 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/072f6b54-f55e-43d1-bc12-ca8ecf29961d/MV5BNmVkOTUyM2QtZjc4Mi00MjQzLTk1NGItMWJiMjQwZTcyNzI4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjkwOTAyMDU%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - “Fleishman is in Trouble” Broke Me - Fleishman is Trouble broke me. The FX/ Hulu adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel of the same name was at once the worst and best thing I’ve seen in a long time. So good in fact, that it compelled me to write again. Spoilers… … … … … … … … … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/4aa62eda-ef81-4955-922f-543eb85fdc28/image-asset.jpeg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - “Fleishman is in Trouble” Broke Me Libby was a moderately successful writer at a men’s magazine. Moderately successful in that she has a full-time job as a writer in NYC. But she wasn’t going anywhere—her career was stalled. She lived in a beautiful single-family home in New Jersey with a really nice husband and a couple of kids, but she seems to feel too like her life has stalled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/0c9f7af5-a0ab-42ff-aaf4-9c42db9e38ed/Fleishman-Is-in-Trouble-narrator.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - “Fleishman is in Trouble” Broke Me Libby worked at a men’s magazine. Her two best friends are men. She doesn’t appear to have any friends in her suburban community, in fact… she seems to shun the moms around her who can’t help but to talk incessantly about their kids… and nothing else. Libby isn’t like them. She’s different. She smokes cigarettes. She stays out late. She’s a… wait… shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Libby is a “Cool Girl”—or at least thinks she is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/79c8b775-141a-482c-8f52-cd204351d191/1d1906e6b584bd6deaa4e64be8b1f7d6.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - “Fleishman is in Trouble” Broke Me But the thing that got me—the thing that struck me like a ton a bricks was when she says something to the effect of ‘leaving him isn’t going to make me young again’ and then continues “You were not ever gonna be young again. You were only at risk for not remembering that this was as good as it would get in every single moment.” Then we see flashes of life… kids, friends, meals, fights, laughter. And she says “this is the youngest you will ever be. And this. And this. And this…” and it BROKE me. https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/guest-killjoys monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/james-bond-maybe-we-just-shouldnt monthly 0.5 2022-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/72b01a60-d095-44d7-9bd2-53681df72215/MV5BYWQ2NzQ1NjktMzNkNS00MGY1LTgwMmMtYTllYTI5YzNmMmE0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjM4NTM5NDY%40._V1_.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? It isn’t always easy being a feminist killjoy. Seriously though, it can be exhausting to always be thinking and analyzing and critiquing… Sometimes you just want to enjoy a bit of pop culture and NOT have to get angry about it. So two years ago when I heard that the last Daniel Craig “James Bond” film, No Time to Die was coming out and that 1. 007 is a Black woman, 2. Phoebe Waller-Bridge (of Fleabag genius) was a script-writer, and 3. There’s a gay moment!... I was thrilled! I might get to see a James Bond movie and actually just enjoy it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/eb6ae904-6b06-4108-93ba-61c8d85c7a87/Screen+Shot+2022-03-28+at+4.23.48+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? The film opens with a little girl and her mother being terrorized by a masked mass-murderer. The former escapes and the latter is riddled with bullets. While there wasn’t a dead naked woman in the first fifteen minutes (see my post from 3/2/21), there was still a dead mother and a very scared little girl. *cue eyeroll* https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/8a2aaa92-31bf-4265-9551-50ca76e1905d/no-time-to-die-nomi-vest.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? Then we learn about the biological weapon, which uses nano-technology to target specific DNA coding and instantly kill anyone whose DNA profile is targeted (I know… a bit confusing). And I was like… maybe, we just shouldn’t have biological weapons??? Soon after we meet Lashana Lynch’s Nomi, the new 007! She offers Bond a ride, suggests sex, and then reveals herself to be a secret agent as well. All that was fine, I guess, but it became very clear that she would not be a particularly central character and that she’s really just there to navigate the relationship between two old white men, Bond (Craig) and M (Ralph Fiennes). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/96351d35-8c9a-443b-8f32-3307be4106fa/ana-de-armas-no-time-to-die-bond-girl.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? Paloma and Bond execute their mission and she notes that she’s only had “three weeks training.” Isn’t she just adorable!? Paloma is good at her job. And it’s excellent to see that. So is our new 007. Women. Who are good at their jobs and (literally) kick ass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/e886baf3-01fa-4940-89ce-96989fac4e0f/a6084590-222f-11ec-bbec-ab5ed7cc8034.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? - Bond and Moneypenny have to take things “off” the off-the-books and go to visit the tech guru Q (Ben Whishaw). When they surprise him at his apartment he’s preparing a lovely dinner, listening to opera, and getting out a fine bottle of wine *wink* *wink* *wink* and then they ask him “Are you expecting someone?” to which he replies, “Yes. And he’ll be here in 20 minutes.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/017550e2-da49-46c3-95ee-93984e1220f1/ow3QtX3oDvvMxhLgZAC9a5-1200-80.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? There is a nice moment between the two star-crossed lovers. Bond is honest with Madeleine and opens up to express vulnerability and I was momentarily impressed. A cis-het man expresses real, actual feelings, from deep down inside his 00-heart, and then he puts his arm around her waist and pulls her into him. She says, “Don’t” and he doesn’t listen and tells her, “you look incredible.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/23f78e72-96b6-47d3-b416-ab9f1f9b944c/QYFXbTX85AoYvWMiWYmHCS-1200-80.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? The pair works together to destroy Safin’s (Malek) poison island and Nomi leaves to take Madeleine and Mathilde to safety while Bond stays to finish the job. It won’t end well though… and we know that, it’s telegraphed pretty clearly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1bd05535-04e0-4e6b-8f4e-5b7d8966e818/p28t6UZqXqH5Sj8JygHXTM.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - James Bond… Maybe we just shouldn’t…? We watch him learn this as he makes the ultimate sacrifice for them and we watch Madeleine’s face as the island blows up in a series of explosions while Q tracks the monitor recording Bond’s vitals until they flatline. With a stiff drink the remaining members of MI-6 salute Bond (but not a martini… shaken or stirred). https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/and-just-like-that monthly 0.5 2022-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/5591f465-e0e8-42ca-9271-4880c5b82e1e/MV5BZjFmOGUzMGYtMGYyMS00MzQyLTg2MGEtNzJjMjFlNDkyZGYxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTEyMjM2NDc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - And Just Like That… So, seriously, when And Just Like That… was announced I knew that I’d be in front of my TV every Thursday night to watch, and I knew that I most likely had to choose between two ways of watching: turning off my brain and enjoying the pretty pictures (the scopophilic approach) or the analytic, critical approach (the oppositional gaze). When choosing between Freud, another old-dead-white-man who was a misogynist and defined women by our lack of penis; and bell hooks, a world-renowned Black feminist scholar who coined the term “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” I knew what to do. So I did. SPOILERS AHEAD … … … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/eab30ea7-962b-4888-ae3a-8a1723a1c174/c82cdb90-58e9-11ec-89e5-1d048b7a8fc4_800_420.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - And Just Like That… We learn that Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) has a podcast, Charlotte (Kristen Davis) is still a full-time mom who is incredibly busy with her teenagers’ VERY elite private school, and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) has quit her law firm and is getting a Masters in Human Rights Law so that she can “make a difference.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/218e59a8-b598-48e5-a2d1-9ac8b70668a3/and-just-like-that-the-golden-girls.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - And Just Like That… While much of the rest of this post will be about the wildly problematic nature of show I want to point out that as much as the “WE ARE NOW FIFTY FIVE” dialogue irked me, it is fantastic to see women that age on TV. Generally speaking, after 40 (maybe 45 if you’re lucky) women on television are either put out to pasture or cast as old ladies. This is just a friendly reminder that Charlotte, Miranda and Carrie are the same age as Dorothy, Blanche, and Sophia were in THE GOLDEN GIRLS… So… yeah…wow… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/9ea8cd47-01a7-4272-bd25-05d38156298e/ea3c4a50-58d9-11ec-a1a5-b5e67fc3997d_800_420.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - And Just Like That… It takes Carrie a bit longer to meet hers. In the final moments of the first episode Mr. Big (Chris Noth who is currently under-fire regarding accusations of sexual assault and predatory behavior with female New York University students) has a heart-attack after a Peloton ride and dies. Carrie sees him collapsed next to the shower and runs to him and holds him as he takes his last breaths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/22a74bab-ce12-4cf2-8914-1026e57b7a65/271310491_620802239158554_2243905411457359965_n-3-1.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - And Just Like That… We learn that Seema is 53 and never married and her parents make her feel awful about it, but at a Diwali celebration Carrie comes to her defense. (Side note: they go to a Sari Shop to get outfits for the Diwali celebration… and there isn’t a SINGLE SARI in that store! One of my dearest friends, whom I lived with in Brooklyn for a few years is from India and I went to her wedding in India and I can tell you that what Carrie and Seema were looking at, what they wore were NOT sarees. They were lehengas. A “Brown-Lady-Guide” should have known the difference). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/25dfa44d-24cd-4153-8f8a-2cf58ed86df0/Screen+Shot+2022-02-04+at+1.56.53+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - And Just Like That… We begin with meeting Che (Sara Ramirez) the host of Carrie’s podcast, “X, Y, and Me.” Che (they/them) is a queer and non-binary stand-up comic… who isn’t actually all that funny and whose podcast features a “Woke-Alert” button which is engaged at random intervals during the show. Naturally, there is a discussion of pronoun usage, how problematic the gender binary is, and once again… how clueless Carrie seems to be about it all in the beginning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/fb156b5f-efdc-406e-8072-f7379d8522f7/Screen+Shot+2022-02-04+at+1.59.56+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - And Just Like That… There are multiple references to not understanding how someone isn’t either a “boy” or a “girl,” confusion about pronouns, and utter anger when they meet with Rock’s teachers who tell them that Rock has been “Rock” at school for a while and that it isn’t “just a phase.” https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/on-the-girl-crush monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1634861213971-FQSPHCN2G4R88MS8ME78/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.06.00+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On the “Girl Crush” We didn’t talk about gayness or queerness in school or at home, either positive or negative, I just knew the basics: gay was “a boy who loves boys” or lesbian, “a girl who loves girls” and that was that. It wasn’t until high school when I learned anything about bi-sexuality. To be honest, no one I knew took it at all seriously. It was more like, “Pick a side! Be gay! That’s great! Be straight! That’s great too! But bi-sexuality isn’t real…” In college I totally fell for bi-erasure. In the early 2000’s people I knew (gay and straight) just simply didn’t believe bi-sexuality existed. The idea was that girls “experiment” in college, or would make out with other girls because “guys think it’s hot.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1634862032818-ML3PPNMKX9EDH8LLBA3O/sexual+and+romantic+expression.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On the “Girl Crush” What makes me sad is all the people, like myself, who pigeonholed themselves into straightness… because we knew we weren’t gay, but never let ourselves explore our “girl crushes” for what they might have been… queer desire. Simple as that. We can be LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay bi-sexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual), the plus covering all of the many sexual identities there are out there. It’s important to remember that there is a difference between physical/ sexual attraction and romantic attraction and that, like gender, sexuality is a spectrum. So yeah. Next time I think I have a “girl crush” I’m going to call it what it is. Same-sex attraction. Because here’s the thing I didn’t have the words for when I was called an “Ellen” in the 7th grade. I’m heteroflexible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1634861406883-P77A7UCGKAGDWER77GU3/725261053cd219e0c662a8055759fc72.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On the “Girl Crush” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/are-all-vacations-just-colonial-excursions monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630009255774-LP9UTO4J5C6SU81NIU6U/MV5BOWY1YjY1MWUtYWY5Yi00YTM4LTkyM2UtMDQ3NmFiYTkyYjlkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDM2NDM2MQ%40%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? The premise of the show is simple and elegant on its face, but the deeper you dig into it, the darker it becomes and the more questions it asks. The White Lotus is a swanky and upscale resort and spa on a remote island in the Hawaiian islands. In the series’ first episode we see Shane (Jack Lacy, who plays the arrogant, rich, asshole, 30-something frat-boy expertly, perfectly opposed to his typical “nice-guy” roles in The Office, Girls, or Obvious Child) in the airport ready to leave the island. We learn that someone at The White Lotus has died and watch as their remains are loaded into the plane. What we have to spend the next six episodes discovering is which of the central characters will be coming home in the cardboard box, and who might not leave with the person they came with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630009416059-4JRKPD85CQPY4ICV4U5W/white-lotus.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? As the boat delivering the very upscale guests approaches the resort we see the resort staff, smiling broadly and insincerely(?) on the shore. They are Resort Manager, Armond (Murray Bartlett), Trainee (who is secretly in labor) Lani (Jolene Purdy), Spa Manager, Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), and Server, Dillon (Lukas Gage). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630010573690-SXZKHF0O9LQYUIXFVBED/9103a0dac85e82922a65cea3860e02c5.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? Tanya (Coolidge) wanders somewhat drunkenly around the resort in loud printed dresses carrying a large silver box containing her mother’s ashes and crying. Through all of it, Armond (Bartlett) is trying to hold together his high-maintenance guests, his staff, and his sobriety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630009754155-RTT263Q734XDWKI6UW5B/Screen+Shot+2021-08-26+at+2.29.09+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? The rivalry between Shane (Lacy) and Armond (Bartlett) more or less grounds much of the “comedy” of the show, until the final moments where there is nothing funny about it. And while I, personally, hated Shane (Lacy) I wasn’t particularly rooting for Armond (Bartlett) either as he blatantly harasses his staff and trades drugs and sex for better shifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630010670216-DZB0D18XP8AX8DHEDIKG/White-Lotus.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? However, in almost every shot Olivia (Sweeny) and Paula (O’Grady) are reading a different high-minded and deeply theortical texts—from Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble,” to Franz Fannon’s “Wretched of the Earth.” We see them read Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Camille Paglia, and Aimé Césaire. For those of you who’ve survived undergraduate (and maybe even graduate) studies you will likely do as I did, get excited, laugh, and then aggressively roll your eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630010448257-OKB15HJDNPLYZGF1WMMD/natasha-rothwell.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? Belina (Rothwell) is skeptical, but Tanya’s (Coolidge) commitment to the project over several days gets her so excited that she puts together a professionally bound business plan complete with logo. But Tanya (Coolidge) meets a man, Greg (John Gries) and becomes so enamored that she never actually reads it, and instead just hands Belinda (Rothwell) an envelope full of money, turns her back, and leaves… and realizes she forgot her sunglasses, retrieves them as Belinda (Rothwell) weeps, and leaves once more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630010759201-VTOUFBT8876I46E8SVR4/Kai-The-White-Lotus-Season-1-Episode-5.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? When she realizes that Kai (Kekumano) is going to get caught she sits and waits on the dive boat. She doesn’t try to cut the Mossbacher’s off before they reach the hotel, she doesn’t send a text, or make a call… and then when she knows he’s caught she just quietly absorbs the reality and walks away, tossing the beautiful necklace he had made for her into the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630011123689-07FUT7S4OJBW058IAO1V/Screen+Shot+2021-08-26+at+2.51.55+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? By the end of the series he doesn’t care about his phone—he wants adventure, and he wants to connect with other people and with the earth— not his superficial family, or even his beloved pornography. Ultimately, we are led to believe by the final shots of the island that he will stay and make a home there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630010857507-B4RCSD7LR6I1E0CXQ7VA/Screen+Shot+2021-08-26+at+2.47.20+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? Embedded in the show is also the question of how can we, as white people, not be colonizers all the time and everywhere? Is that even possible? We travel around the world and want to “take in” and “experience” “authentic” and “local” “traditions,” but what do those words even mean? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1630010974082-AAR1CK9KI8QB5D8S5MWG/Screen+Shot+2021-08-26+at+2.49.21+PM.png The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - Are All Vacations Just Colonial Excursions??? But then she shows up to the airport, smiles at him, embraces him, and tells him, “I’m going to try to be happy.” And I nearly vomited. What. The. Actual. Fuck. Rachel????? https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/a-feminist-killjoy-meets-the-marvel-cinematic-universe monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622049734730-J04ZW32USFZ151NAYY9F/image.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 0 1. Two women with names 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something other than a man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622049838169-YLJFN2D4P4Y1TY1JV4F3/captainmarvel_lob_crd_06.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3(!) 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X I really loved everything about this movie. It’s ultimately a film about a woman rediscovering herself, her herstory, and her power, AND reconnecting with a long lost best friend (who is a brave and brilliant Black woman played by Lashana Lynch, whose daughter becomes (one can argue) the central protagonist in WandaVision). Bree Larson is terrific and Annette Benning as mentor to Larson’s Carol Danvers/ Captain Marvel warms my heart. I also genuinely appreciated learning how S.H.E.I.L.D. came to be and why Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) wears that eye-patch! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622049928740-H9BGTVS6D43R5GP71X9A/DXDXkLKVMAAvDEb.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050044728-LAS02QJN6GXLGLL80TYJ/220px-Chris_Hemsworth_as_Thor.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X To be clear: I will watch anything with Natalie Portman. And Natalie Portman as a brilliant physicist is even better. Portman graduated from Harvard, so it’s not that far off. The second MCU Chris (Helmsworth) was surprisingly charming, and while I definitely rolled my eyes at their romantic subplot… whatever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050140535-EVOQY5H8AZGDFZAZE9CI/p8815512_p_v10_ap.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man More women in this film, but no scenes where they actually engage with one another. We need to talk about Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff/ Black Widow for minute. Tony Stark has his Iron Man suit (he invented it and is brilliant, but he has it); Captain America is a super-soldier and has (what I know because I watched Black Panther) a Vibranium shield; The Hulk is The Hulk; Thor is literally a God as is Loki; Hawkeye… yeah, I don’t know about him… but Natasha Romanoff’s only super power is being a baddass strong woman! She has NO SUPERPOWERS! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622071253030-EPKQHVBA7HD19UV6HAIV/thor-the-dark-world-feature-900x506.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3 (I don’t even know how but it happened) 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050285905-LJOBI0A1EV93QLW7P19V/Captain-America-in-Avengers-Endgame-and-Falcon-and-The-Winter-Soldier.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050383367-YK6W52SICFWIKSYAYGYS/MV5BMTAwMjU5OTgxNjZeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDUxNDYxODEx._V1_.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2 (Okay, there are two women who talk each other, but only about how much they do or do not want to commit patricide (deservedly so) so like 2.5). 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man Huzzah! Another Chris! Pratt this time as Peter Quill—and once again we see someone who appears to be charming on their face, but is actually a deeply troubled and insecure man who is arrogant and full of himself and isn’t really all that charming. Zoe Saldana’s Gamora is pretty fantastic, but she can’t do it all on her own and her sister is too troubled to be part of the team… for now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050478707-1O0KNMUC4UAU6O33KGA7/age-of-ultron.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2.5 (there are women who talk about a murderous robot voiced by James Spader… so 2.5) 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050611007-MOKE7E1ACV2SZW3ZMZMC/Paul_Rudd_as_Ant-Man.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man Meh. The concept of a guy putting on a suit and shrinking feels like the least likely thing possible in all the MCU… But… PAUL RUDD! But… MICHAEL PEÑA! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622073346430-K93W73GF3C4068EWF4J9/09box-superJumbo.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050665945-3FAMW1BXYOTMFTEAZ381/Doctor-Strange-2.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 1 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something other than a man Oy. Where to begin with this one??? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622050758194-SGHVU6PZI2KQI7BZVT1J/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-3.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3!!! 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X WAKANDA FOREVER forever! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622073758332-6P2JU5M79UWA7UAUSMGO/4-46665_png-valkyrie-brunhilde-valkyrie-thor-ragnarok-back.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2(ish…) 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man Things I LOVED about this: 1. The bro-mance between Thor (Helmsworth) and Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) 2. TESSA THOMPSON as Valkyrie riding around on a freaking Pegasus and kicking ass. Since her performance in Dear White People (2014) I have had nothing but love for her and was thrilled to see her in this… can MCU make an all Valkyrie movie, please? I would watch that in heartbeat. While Valkyrie’s character isn’t explicitly queer, there are certainly undertones, namely that the Valkyrie are all elite women warrior “maidens” who defended the planet until the invasion of Hella, where only Thompson’s character survived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622054073410-LO8XWB9W0F45FC5BDGB1/MMVCD2477E366401F60FE42984C176F1776F.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3 (but barely) 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X Well, WandaVision’s Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) makes an appearance which warms my heart and again… PAUL RUDD. He is constitutionally incapable of NOT being charming. Glad to see Michelle Pfeiffer’s character actually being a brilliant and strong scientist instead of just a memory. Not sure how this actually scored so high on the Bechdel test, because there is literally nothing notable about representations of women here, but circumstances being what they are, it earned a 3. Big shout out to Lawerence Fishburne who always brings great depth and heart to all his characters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622054262753-6GCOMV6TYDSBFYW0DN26/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_scottmendelson_files_2018_04_image001.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 2.5… the “man” who is often talked about by the women is Thanos… who needs to be discussed since he is literally trying to wipe out half of all life in the galaxy… so yeah… 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622054388469-KLR3SN3WHTRHCR3YBJMP/Avengers-Endgame-Film-Review.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3! 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X For those just tuning in, Black Widow (Johansson), my absolute favorite Avenger, has to die to get her own movie. Pardon me while I aggressively roll my eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622054701554-Z9YCJB96FPCN9HHLVA0N/wandavision-poster-1600668936.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3(!) 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X Really, the show that started it all for me. Kathryn Hahn as an evil witch was everything I needed in life, and watching Wanda Maximoff (Olsen) find her power as the Scarlet Witch totally worked for me. Having to give up her family to save all the innocent people she’d had unintentionally (and then intentionally) enslaved to her TV world was incredibly sad and I genuinely felt her pain. Getting to see a strong black female lead in Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) was terrific, even if I was completely confused by her character since I had not yet seen all the MCU films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622054808839-LN95ADUIAO2W5WTQ4AB8/161834009578318259-2.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Bechdel Score: 3 1. Two women with names X 2. Who talk to each other X 3. About something other than a man X https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1622055146477-WUYAE844T6GCTE7VXCTY/mcu-phase-4-movies.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - A Feminist Killjoy Meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe… - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/defunding-the-police-is-a-feminist-issue monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/the-little-things monthly 0.5 2022-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1614724621833-WC7Q5I3V54ALHB43PKWI/images.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Dead, Naked, Women as Props… The Little Things intrigued me with its stellar cast (Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto—my teenage dreamboat from his days playing Jordan Catalano on “My So-Called Life”), but what I found in this film so angered me that I once again felt compelled, as I did that night on the road, to cry, scream, and excoriate the person who made me feel so powerless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1614806309747-8LZ6XKP0V0B18QBIP36B/03-02-14-dallas-buyers-club-ftr.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Dead, Naked, Women as Props… Stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto were showered with praise for their radical transformations— McConaughey for losing fifty pounds for the role, and Leto for putting on make-up and high heels and playing Rayon, a trans-woman with AIDS. While much of Hollywood held up the film as a testament to the both actors’ range and willingness to sacrifice for their respective roles, the LGBTQIA community wanted to know why? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1614724712862-PCVKK2QUQT0NWV3HW9QN/download.jpg The Feminist Killjoy as Critic - On Dead, Naked, Women as Props… Sparma flips through the images and becomes erect and as soon as Deke sees the erection he exclaims, “Your dick’s as hard as Chinese arithmetic” at which point both he and Baxter charge at Sparma. When another cop comes in to break up the scuffle Sparma laughs and Deke tells him, “We know… you know… we got you by the balls!” https://www.erinkaplan.com/the-feminist-killjoy-as-critic/welcome monthly 0.5 2021-03-04 https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys daily 0.75 2023-07-06 https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys/ode-to-lakeith-stanfield monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/79f36d79-5ad6-4c24-8f59-da8b30f0ad02/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+9.05.03+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Ode to LaKeith Stanfield This is LaKeith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/8ff353f9-13eb-4ad3-86fc-d472dd98b449/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+9.05.59+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Ode to LaKeith Stanfield This is LaKeith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/2db5e3ba-b244-4c75-8bf2-eb103fbc4401/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+9.06.40+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Ode to LaKeith Stanfield THIS IS LaKEITH https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys/wap-the-incurable-disease monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys/stuntin-like-my-daddy monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/312848d8-8acc-4215-a1ac-6ba61fe43b03/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+6.13.18+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Stuntin’ Like My Daddy - By the age of 11 years old Nate (Jacob Eldori) finds his fathers home made sex tapes with men in motel rooms. Nate (Eldori) is fascinated by these films and he rewatches them compulsively. If it’s not weird enough that he enjoys his dad's homemade porn, it’s his first exposure to sex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/e3b6e4e7-d4d1-4946-9815-9ea7e6fcad1f/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+6.14.46+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Stuntin’ Like My Daddy This seals Nate’s (Eldori) fate to never let anyone in because he believed people would find him weak, so he bottles up emotional and sexual frustration ant turns it into rage. By age twelve he had already created a ridgid workout schedule that fed his anger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1e2c8abe-a579-47ff-89b4-964ec9ae46f5/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+6.16.08+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Stuntin’ Like My Daddy After Nate (Eldori) is visibly repulsed by men, he fantasies a long list of all the things he likes about women the top being that they are hairless, which is just creepy, we meet Maddy (Alexa Demie). Maddy’s (Demie) character is the popular girl in high school, pretty, confident, and outspoken. Nate (Eldori) fantasizes a lot about Maddy (Demie) and her vulnerability as a young woman. He takes it so far to imagine her being kidnapped and him murdering her attacker. Yes. Murdering her attacker. Nate (Eldori) is purebred toxic masculinity that feeds off of his emotional manipulation and physical fear he unleashes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/eb657713-737c-49c2-a709-16dd007e5423/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+6.17.31+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Stuntin’ Like My Daddy Instead of taking his anger out in a healthy way he stalks Tyler (Gage) back to his apartment and beats the shit out of him. After he finishes his brutal beating Nate then goes to shower off Tyler's (Gage) blood in his own shower and proceeds to put Tyler's (Gage) own clothes on. This whole interaction is sickening because Nate (Eldori) not only has no remorse and no repercussions. https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys/channeling-elizabeth-holmes monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/70e58a7d-007d-4e3f-8d9d-897741e2b82e/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+9.19.31+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Channeling Elizabeth Holmes The Dropout stars Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, Laurie Metcalf, and Stephen Frey. It portrays the dramatization of Holmes’s rise and fall of her company Theranos, based on the ABC Podcast, “The Dropout.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/fffe4246-04f0-437f-af0e-819abd7a2297/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+9.20.40+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Channeling Elizabeth Holmes Seyfried portrays Holmes in the beginning as a smart, determined, regular ole Stanford gal, persistent to make it big, just like her knight in shining armor, Steve Jobs. And over the course of each episode, we watch as Holmes’s entire personality changes. A hardworking 19-year-old turns into to a cocky, arrogant, and downright deceitful woman capable of the unimaginable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/50b8d7b9-cafd-4662-84ef-b02abeb1bad4/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+9.21.47+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Channeling Elizabeth Holmes The Ugly Truth: “You know how many times I’ve been told, ‘You can’t do it?; The sexism I’ve faced has been so naked and ugly, it’s just taken my breath away. But she [Holmes] thinks I didn’t support her idea because she’s had it easier than me because I’m what? I’m jealous of her? https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys/the-contradiction-of-queer-television monthly 0.5 2023-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/929f35d6-4943-40fd-a7fe-43eea3eaebd4/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.44.46+PM.png Guest Killjoys - The Contradiction of Queer Television: How RuPaul’s Drag Race Does Queer Representation Right and Wrong The “villain edit” is a phrase that will raise the ears of any die-hard Drag Race fan, or any reality TV fan in general. The “villain edit” is a common practice within reality television production, because at the end of the day, producers are creating a storyline using the experiences of contestants. Every good story has a hero and a villain. In other reality shows like Survivor or Big Brother, contestants are set up by the editors as people you can root for, or root against. While this concept of story building isn’t inherently wrong, it comes with a lot of discrepancies and easy to cross lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/af89d24a-1830-4043-a6ca-f2a349dfa227/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.46.05+PM.png Guest Killjoys - The Contradiction of Queer Television: How RuPaul’s Drag Race Does Queer Representation Right and Wrong For example, after Season 4 aired, many people would boo Phi Phi at her shows, or not buy tickets at all (You can read more about Phi Phi’s story here) On the other hand, queens like Trixie Mattel, who is one of the most famous drag queens, got her career boost from a very favorable hero edit on Drag Race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/819bf79e-a1de-414c-a774-12706c925ce0/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.47.23+PM.png Guest Killjoys - The Contradiction of Queer Television: How RuPaul’s Drag Race Does Queer Representation Right and Wrong If disrupting and ruining the careers of queens through the edit of Drag Race wasn’t enough, there is also more discrepancy with the trends of who receives the villain edit and who receives a hero edit within the seasons. Throughout the history of the show, the contestants who tend to be edited poorly have also been consistently minority queens; whether that means they are a person of color or they are plus size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/400c3dca-0b01-476e-80de-c96a5cdf80d9/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.48.44+PM.png Guest Killjoys - The Contradiction of Queer Television: How RuPaul’s Drag Race Does Queer Representation Right and Wrong On the bright side, however, Drag Race’s last two seasons have seen a great improvement in editing and portrayal of queens. The villain edit is almost unidentifiable, as every queen has their ups and downs. Queens like Silky Nutmeg Ganache, a plus size and POC queen who was portrayed negatively on her original season, were given a second chance to show off their talents in an accepting and humanizing way. https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys/what-is-the-pride-of-a-man-a-boogie-nights-analysis monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/16ce64ec-2a9d-49fd-a4aa-585acbd8cb79/Screen+Shot+2022-04-26+at+8.37.05+PM.png Guest Killjoys - What is the Pride of a Man? A Boogie Nights Analysis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/ae7708e0-728b-42df-8d07-381fe07c54a4/Screen+Shot+2022-04-26+at+8.37.39+PM.png Guest Killjoys - What is the Pride of a Man? A Boogie Nights Analysis He plays the role of the ideal man to the extent of merging his pornstar “ideal man” persona with his actual self, asking to be called his porn name, Dirk Diggler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/dfca1847-c1c6-41d9-b8ab-983ee2458d2b/Screen+Shot+2022-04-26+at+8.38.44+PM.png Guest Killjoys - What is the Pride of a Man? A Boogie Nights Analysis When pushed outside of this masculine ideal, Dirk begins to slip away, eventually falling into a state of total loss. The first thing that shakes his idea of being seen as totally masculine is when one of his cameramen, Scotty (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman), attempts to kiss him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/1ba49f2d-274b-4bb9-9aec-2d6b0fd74c47/Screen+Shot+2022-04-26+at+8.39.44+PM.png Guest Killjoys - What is the Pride of a Man? A Boogie Nights Analysis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/f975ce58-b0b4-42eb-8bb6-7edba86d498c/Screen+Shot+2022-04-26+at+8.40.23+PM.png Guest Killjoys - What is the Pride of a Man? A Boogie Nights Analysis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.erinkaplan.com/guest-killjoys/schmidt-from-new-girl-is-more-than-just-a-douchebag monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/01c6c4e9-25f6-4b6f-b9a9-cda7852ad11d/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.21.32+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Schmidt from New Girl is More than Just a “Douchebag” Schmidt’s character exemplifies fat-phobia. The show implies that because Schmidt was fat, and he was made fun of, couldn’t be sexual, wasn’t able to find love, and was stuck in his career. He was only able to be happy and find love once he lost weight and became conventionally “attractive.” This idea about Schmidt’s past is highly problematic because it perpetuates the false ideas that 1. fat people can’t be happy, 2. fat people can’t find love, 3. fat people need to lose weight to progress in their lives. Obviously, none of these ideas are true. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/c658f3bb-4088-473a-82c7-ae6ffdff7480/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.23.08+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Schmidt from New Girl is More than Just a “Douchebag” Schmidt’s love interest in the series is Cece. Cece’s character is the supportive best friend, she is a model, and her character has very little depth aside from being an object for Schmidt to obsess over, sexualize, and even fetishize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/b6f775f1-63b3-4b13-90f0-1bd8c1454872/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.26.41+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Schmidt from New Girl is More than Just a “Douchebag” If you think that was bad, watch this IMDb video of “Table 34” in which Schmidt describes how he plans to go to Cece’s Indian dating convention… … and this one when he pulls Cece aside to talk about how their sex was about “history, memory, and thousands of years of colonial suffering all being released in one moment of pure ecstasy” (“Table 34”): I am in shock over these scenes. “White man need not apply,” “brown husband,” “more towels,” “white person’s toilet.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60088d218da21c0603e515a7/d9fa7911-c017-47d9-91ba-907836b16245/Screen+Shot+2022-04-25+at+8.31.01+PM.png Guest Killjoys - Schmidt from New Girl is More than Just a “Douchebag” I am choosing not to laugh. 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