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"The girl and the woman, in their new, individual unfolding, will only in passing be imitators of male behavior and misbehavior and repeaters of male professions. After the uncertainty of such transitions, it will become obvious that women were going through the abundance and variation of those (often ridiculous) disguises just so that they could purify their own essential nature and wash out the deforming influences of the other sex. Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the weight of any bodily fruit and who, arrogant and hasty, undervalues what he thinks he loves. This humanity of woman, carried in her womb through all her suffering and humiliation, will come to light when she has stripped off the conventions of mere femaleness in the transformations of her outward status, and those men who do not yet feel it approaching will be astonished by it. Someday (and even now, especially in the countries of northern Europe, trustworthy signs are already speaking and shining), someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being." Rilke

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a review of Brave. One day, the minds at Pixar said...

    Pixar: So, princess stories. Disney has done that a lot. But.... maybe we can improve on some stuff.

    Pixar: You know how mothers just seem to be.... well, missing from those stories? Missing or just quiet or a non-presence in the shadow of The Father or evil in-laws?

    Pixar: Yeah. Let's give our girl a mother.

    Pixar: Hell, let's make the whole story about their relationship, without minimizing the father-figure and making sure to give all of them unique and rich characterization.

    Pixar: Oh, and our girl can shoot. Like a BOSS.

    Pixar:

    Pixar: Let's make a point of celebrating her physical strength without making it the only thing that defines her!

    Pixar: ..... in fact, hey. Wow.

    Pixar: Let's make her defining character moment center around compassion and *rhetoric*, where her intelligence and maturity and love of family are as important as her physical heroism.

    Pixar: Oh.

    Pixar: And while we're on a roll?

    Pixar: Let's make sure that our female protagonists have complete agency, that none of their major defining moments or decisions revolve around or are accomplished only through the actions of men, that they are graceful and kind while being equally capable of crassness and unkindness, that romance is not our heroine's goal and that no part of her motivation hinges on pleasing or impressing or playing the catalyst for a male character--

    Pixar: --and that we accomplish all of that without belittling the importance of the male characters or their relationships as a realistic interconnected family!

    Pixar: And while we're at it?

    Pixar: Let's take that conservative "mama bear" trope and redefine it in the most simultaneously heart-rending and humorous way possible, leaving more metaphorical parallels for the audience to chew on than they'll even realize until later.

    Pixar:

    Pixar: And I guess we can make it heart-breakingly lovely to look at while we're at it.

    Pixar: And with Celtic aesthetics. That mythological trove is way underused these days.

    Pixar: .... and we have thoughts for a short, too.....

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    Um, I don’t know where you live, but around here, Brave is still playing. It’s down to one theater per cinema, but it’s...
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