“But what’s the moral” “There isn’t one, I wanted to look at something I find neat” “But it’s a story, so there’s a moral. Why won’t you take responsibility for that moral” It’s what the accurate statement ‘everything is political’ gets warped into in order to bludgeon people
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Yeah; I mean, I guess the simpler version of it is just why it's a final GIRL at all; the male characters are generally more capable and therefore, less dramatic.
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it's not about capability, it's about vulnerability, and especially the feeling of it final girls are often very, very capable people but, at least on a libidinal level, we understand women as *vulnerable* in a way that we often won't understand men
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I mean hey look - the actual explicit codifier of the Final Girl concept is Friday the 13th, in that the killer's motive is explicitly stated to be hunting down irresponsible partying teenagers But the Final Girls don't actually survive because they're "pure'
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final girls survive because they're ruthless
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