4 funny women over 30, where the panning shots are of their talented action and not sexualizing their bodies.
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3 women with PhDs, and 1 with an encyclopedic knowledge of New York, who go into business for themselves and help each other get over craving validation from academia; all the while demonstrating that skill, talent, and knowledge can happen outside institutional systems of oppression.
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2 friends who wrote a book together, and the central love story is a platonic love story.
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1 queer artistic genius engineer with keen fashion sense that represents the mad scientist every little girl wanted to be growing up.
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Why people in their 30s find themselves spontaneously crying at this movie, and this is why Ghostbusters is the signal that everything is changing.
these were literally my exact feels watching this movie. plus immense gratitude that they didn’t play for the cheap laughs with a bunch of ‘fat girl falls down’ jokes.
