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- The Royal Tenebaums
This week we continue down the dark garden path that is the Wes Anderson oeuvre with 2001's the Royal Tenenbaums--a movie about the quintessential dysfunctional upper-class family. Topics (angrily) discussed include: Royal's selfishness, Royal's Racism, Royal's lack of caring or empathy. And also suicidal ideation.
CW: This movie and podcast contain detailed depictions and discussion of suicide and self-harm.
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1 hr 2 min - Rushmore
Wes Anderson's 1998 Rushmore is yet another in a long and prestigious line of teen films about a weird nerd boy who can't take no for an answer and ends up stalking a woman. Only this time there's stage framing and swoop pans, and the woman is a teacher whose life he ruins. We talk about student/teacher dynamics, the struggle for identity, and general sadness.
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54 min - Weird Science
This week another entry from the no-longer-bonus feed, John Hughes' 1985 hate crime that is Weird Science. We both found this movie so distasteful we almost turned it off, and yet somehow this train wreck got an 88 episode animated series off the ground so I guess this proves why the world needs Anthropology of Girlhood to tear down these monuments to misogyny. Also they're not even taking advantage of their newly-invented replicator technology so like what are we even doing here.
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47 min - Some Kind Of Wonderful
Today we're talking about the piece of John Hughes Pretty in Pink apologia that is Some Kind of Wonderful. It's pretty much two hours of John Hughes screaming at you that you're wrong and you should date your creepy stalker best friend after all. We get in to many similar topics to Pretty in Pink, especially how gay this best friend character is.
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58 min - Breakfast CLub
This week (slightly late, sorry) we're discussing the seminal teenage classic, the Breakfast Club. We discuss the rigidity of teenage social groups, the complex and often exhausting work of deconstructing societal messages in order to reconstruct one's identity, and what the hell was happening with that Cap'n Crunch sandwich. We also still have no idea why they're called the Breakfast Club, so that remains a mystery for the ages.
Follow us on twitter Album Art by Dresden Satrunalia54 min - Pretty In PinkWe return this week to the hallowed high school halls of Evanston, Illinois in the second entry in our John Hughes series: Pretty in Pink. We're talking about the confines of socioeconomic class, toxic dating tropes, and Duckie as a gay fashion icon. And also young James Spader can get it. Follow us on twitter Subscribe to our Patreon Album Art by Dresden Satrunalia1 hr 13 min
- Sixteen Candles
The Anthropology ship has officially set sail in the cool, calm waters of the Sea of John Hughes with the Molly Ringwald vehicle Sixteen Candles. John Hughes' calm, low-stakes style is a real departure from the tumultuous world of Catherine Hardwicke, but we still find plenty of things to discuss including respecting women's boundaries, the transness of being frustrated with your body and the lack of attention it receives, and just how incredibly acceptable it used to be to viciously hate gay people.
Follow us on twitter Subscribe to our Patreon Album Art by Dresden Satrunalia1 hr 12 min - As Told By Ginger (Part 10)
We've reached the end of our Ginger series with our bittersweet discussion of As Told by Ginger season 3, episodes 10-20. We get retrospective talking about this series as a whole, the growth of our characters, the dynamics of high school popularity vis-a-vis athletics, and parent remarriage and blended families.
We're gonna take a tiny break from television for June so we can get you all the John Hughes you can handle, and we'll be back with Disney's Lizzy McGuire the first week of July. Follow us on twitter Subscribe to our Patreon Album Art by Dresden Satrunalia1 hr 41 min - Miss You AlreadyIt's the final entry in our Catherine Hardwicke series, and we sure have finality on the mind. This movie and the episode really address the challenge of maintaining adult friendships as your lives drift apart. We talk about friendship, parenting, and grief in this heart wrenching tale of loss. Full disclosure: this is a Cancer Movie, so there's a lot of sickness and death talk. If that's not your thing, you may want to skip. Follow us on twitter Subscribe to our Patreon Album Art by Dresden Satrunalia1 hr 18 min
- As Told By Ginger (Part 9)
We're back to Lucky Jr High (and High School!) in part nine of our As Told By Ginger series.
Because of some technical difficulties and in order to catch back up to our schedule, we're talking about the first ten episodes of Ginger. This is a big one, and we covered a lot of ground including boarding schools, high school sports, balancing platonic & romantic relationships, and, of course, the County Fair. And it wouldn't be a real episode if we didn't talk about camp. Follow us on twitter Subscribe to our Patreon Album Art by Dresden Satrunalia1 hr 36 min
About The Anthropology of Girlhood
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Cultural commentary of Girlhood by a couple of folx who had a weird one