I agree with this! If I think about all the girls I knew before 19, they were all suffering in tandem. Teenage girls and women in their early twenties (women in general honestly) have literally not been allowed to have complex feelings for centuries, which is why I kind of love when the 2014 tumblr girl is poked fun at in a self aware way. We're aware of the dramatics but we're not making fun of the girls for having these emotions considering the societal pressure.
I can see why people would be upset though, even if there's no explicit romanticisation, there is an innate feeling that comes with popular literary books where the characters become an unerasable part of culture
I think the literary girl phenomenon resurfacing through books like Sally Rooney's and her sad girl comrades have most definitely shaped the image of it, so even though these writers are making observations, their observations have crowned waifish women as the impetus for beauty (again) even though that might not be the point.
This is probably also an issue with the whole media literally thing and the fact that we simply cannot see, dissect and criticise a piece of media without screaming and crying about other people's opinions, so really everyones the problem 😭
I agree with this! If I think about all the girls I knew before 19, they were all suffering in tandem. Teenage girls and women in their early twenties (women in general honestly) have literally not been allowed to have complex feelings for centuries, which is why I kind of love when the 2014 tumblr girl is poked fun at in a self aware way. We're aware of the dramatics but we're not making fun of the girls for having these emotions considering the societal pressure.
I can see why people would be upset though, even if there's no explicit romanticisation, there is an innate feeling that comes with popular literary books where the characters become an unerasable part of culture
I think the literary girl phenomenon resurfacing through books like Sally Rooney's and her sad girl comrades have most definitely shaped the image of it, so even though these writers are making observations, their observations have crowned waifish women as the impetus for beauty (again) even though that might not be the point.
This is probably also an issue with the whole media literally thing and the fact that we simply cannot see, dissect and criticise a piece of media without screaming and crying about other people's opinions, so really everyones the problem 😭