Animagus Fidelius

All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is, essentially, the story of a 12-year-old who starts cussing, masturbating, and disobeying her mother—in other words, going through puberty—it becomes apparent to the feminist-minded viewer why two adult men are called in to slap her around for much of the third act. People are convinced that something spooky is going on with girls; that, once they reach a certain age, they lose their adorable innocence and start tapping into something powerful and forbidden. Little girls are sugar and spice, but women are just plain scary. And the moment a girl becomes a woman is the moment you fear her most.

— So…in the airport today I was thinking about the shift from stewardess to flight attendant. And how in the beginning and for so long afterwards we had gender specific careers (and many still hold true to these patterns). Men lead and women obeyed, with doctor-nurse, pilot-stewardess, businessman-secretary, football player-cheerleader…this weird slavery and hatred of women is everywhere. And I never even thought about this movie that way, but now it seems so clear. And I had no idea because it’s normal in our society. 

(Source: witchlings, via underwatergunfight)

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