Vanessa Kirby photographed for Marie Claire UK (2018)
Jennifer Lawrence
| InStyle (October 2018)
Rosh Hashanah is the start of the Jewish new year. We say l'shana tovah, which means have a good year. Apples and challah (dipped in honey) are symbols of hope for a sweet new year. :)
some of y’all and the media is so disgusting and overwhelmingly sexist it’s ridiculous. justin bieber spent 2-3 years being a massive dick to everyone for no reason, putting people’s lives in danger by speeding down streets, and sleeping with underaged girls. he goes on stage singing “sorry” and crying and all is forgiven. he still sells a ton, still has huge concerts, no one cares. but ariana grande literally has 22 of her fans blown up in front of her and people only gave a fuck for 3 months? she is groped at a FUNERAL and all people can talk about is how short her dress is. she leaves a toxic relationship with a substance abuser and SHE is blamed for his death. y’all really hate women!
i find it incredibly interesting (read: predictable) that when i read negative reviews about sharp objects that it’s either too slow, or the ending felt cheap, i see that they’re written by men. in turn, every positive article i’ve seen has been written by a woman — and those reviews take it a step beyond positive, calling the finale “the best hour of television” or praising the show as a masterpiece. and i think there’s something so fascinating about how a show about women’s pain and trauma and the violence they commit against themselves and each other is so easily dismissed by men. we are always invited to stand in a male character’s shoes, to slip into his skin and understand why he rages or kills or cries. but with women, and especially the women of sharp objects, there seems to be no desire to do so. there’s criticism of camille’s journalistic integrity, of how she responds to a lifetime of abuse, of every choice she makes. in a strange way, the reaction to the show has held up a mirror to the work itself: the idea of a violent woman is easily dismissed and written off; she is an anomaly, and one not worth empathizing with. in a world full of television and movie violence, men seem to only care about violence committed against women, not violence women inflict themselves.
If I had had someone that looked like me that I could relate to when I was growing up, I would have had so much more confidence, I think. I would’ve felt so much more heard, and seen, and understood.
