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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just saw this Turning Red review in The New Yorker and nlam having trouble pinning down why it rubs me the wrong way:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/there-is-more-than-one-way-to-be-exhausted-by-turning-red

I guess my reactions are
1- I thought that the panda was an allegory about puberty but that Mei didn't actually get her period at that time. The reviewer says she did.
2 - who cares how well reviewers can or cannot relate to it personally?The vast majority of movies I watch are out of my experience. Is it because this one is both so pedestrian (teenage girl figuring out who she is both as a person and culturally) yet out there (giant red panda) that it makes critics uncomfortable? [/quote]

So did she get her period or not? I thought not.[/quote]

No, that was likely a couple years earlier.

I think the panda big was Trans. Older generations pushed it down and away. This time freedom fighters girl is Free to Be Me and doesn’t listen to mom or elders. Kids drive the bus now bozos.[/quote]

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