Two screengrabs from Sofia Coppola’s first film, a short called Lick the Star.
This is exactly what my 6th grade experience looked like. At any given moment this was going on all over the classroom.
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Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
You know, I’ve given it a lot of thought, and as sick and twisted as all of those books are, I don’t honestly think it’s completely horrible that they’re marketed to tweens. It’s a safer way to explore taboo subjects than a lot of what’s readily available on the internet now, and nobody I knew who read those books as kids grew up to think that it’s okay to hook up with their siblings.
That said, I mean, I’m not exactly going to be running out to the bookstore to buy a copy for my 12-year-old niece. ;-)
// nobody I knew who read those books as kids grew up to think that it’s okay to hook up with their siblings. //
hahahahahaha I mean that you even have to say that ….
and in this short film, a group of middle school girls make plans to poison someone using arsenic, because they read about it in Flowers in the Attic.
Sofia Coppola understands girls, that’s for sure.
//I mean that you even have to say that ….//
Lol, good point!
After I saw your post I rewatched Lick the Star and was reminded just how fucking nuts girls are. Not that I forgot, but all we hear now is how horrible men are and women this women that, poor women, blah blah blah. I wouldn’t trust any female who doesn’t acknowledge just how specifically horrible females can be. It also reminds me of that Seinfeld (with the years-overdue copy of Tropic of Capricorn) where Jerry and George are telling Elaine about their high school days of getting and giving wedgies and, more importantly, atomic wedgies. She says, “Boys are sick.” “Well what do girls do?”, Jerry implores. Elaine replies, “We just tease someone until they develop an eating disorder.” Yup.
Oh my God, Elaine. hahahahaha
It’s so true though. Chris Rock had a funny bit in one of his concerts where he talks about what it’s like to talk to his wife when she’s having problems at work. Men will say, “Yeah, there’s this jackass in accounting who’s on a power trip. Fuck him.” But Rock’s wife says, “That woman is trying to DESTROY me.” I believe her!!