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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't like the monologue either especially the beginning..."it's literally impossible to be a woman"

It's not impossible. I am one everyday. So much of it was the helpless, victim role, but women never acknowledge how we feed into it especially things like beauty standards, plastic surgery, etc. Women put that pressure on themselves. [/quote]

Did you never study even a little feminism? I mean, The Beauty Myth has many flaws but it covered this ground 30 years ago -- and was required reading in my high school in the 90s.

I agree with a PP who thought the movie was pretty dark (though fun!) and the monologue is not really the point of the story. I wouldn't be shocked if it was a late addition. [/quote]

I think it is a generational thing. As a Boomer, I thought the monologue was directed to Gen X women. My Gen X friends found the monologue to be very moving and touching, while my Boomer friends and I thought, basically, "No sh!t, Sherlock", and "Didn't we figure this out 50 years ago?"[/quote]

That’s an interesting take.
I’m a GenX-er and I let out an audible laugh at this monologue because to me, it feeds right into what the boomers were told would happen (usually by men who were not pleased with the whole “women in the workplace” thing). “You won’t like it….” “You can’t do it ALL”, “We have division of labor in a household for a reason”, “running a home is a full-time job! You can’t expect to work 8-10 hours a day and come home with energy left over to do all of the following: grocery shop, cook, do laundry, clean, take care of the kids/help with homework, volunteer in the community/school…you’ll hate it!”
But our moms said “no, no—we got this! Watch us!”

But it turns out the nay-sayers weren’t wrong. At all.

As evidenced by the monologue.

I chose to stay at home and pour all my energy into the full-time job there. And I don’t feel that “expectation” that America Ferrera ranted about.
It honestly comes off as someone whining about getting what you signed up for!

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I think the “you can’t do it all” is just BS to make people who can’t work and take care of their family and feel better.[/quote]

So in other words—you CAN do it all…you just need the recognition of being a martyr for it, righ?
That’s what the monologue is. It’s double-speak. “Don’t you dare tell me I can’t do it all”—that’s BS…
“But now I will complain about how miserable it makes me to do so and how terrible “the world” is to me for putting these “impossible expectations” on me.”
 :roll: 
Tiresome.[/quote]

BINGO.[/quote]

No what it says is women are doing it all but they are told they are not.

If you skinny your too skinny, if your healthy your not skinny enough….

And if you’re doing it all… you are told u r not because… you don’t slaughter your own meat.

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No one is doing “it all”. A lot of people are doing the best they can and the best case scenario is that they are able to do what is fulfilling for them, personally. But that’s not “it all”.

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You really allowed people to minimize your life and sell you a load of crap.

Somebody is making $200,000 a year, is home at 4 o’clock when their kids get home from school, has a husband who helps with morning routine, has time to work out, travel, have hobbies, due dates with their husband on the weekend… [b]they are doing it all[/b].

You need to ask yourself why you’ve bought into this crap that they aren’t.[/quote]

I disagree with you on this. We can leave it at that. 
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You can leave it at that, but I don’t have to.

You’ve been socialized to believe this load of crap and I’m not doing it. And by the way, since this thread is about Barbie, and the monologue, she’s talking about you, not me.[/quote]

You have been all over this thread begging for strangers to praise you and how amazing you are.  Why is that?  What exactly is it that you are getting out of this, or hope to get of this?  Do you want a virtual gold star, or a cookie?  Maybe a trophy?[/quote]

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