so ok about ghostbusters i really feel like holtzmann was the realest part of the movie to me? like a lot of straight people might watch the movie and go ‘holtzmann was so over the top, too much, unrealistic, cartoonish’ but:
i’ve known women like that (and fallen in love with them) and done my best to be a woman like that (and got my heart broken a lot) and you can watch holtzmann aggressively flirt with erin until the moment erin loses her shit over kevin and then you see holtzmann just kind of grin bitterly and stop. entirely stop. erin is insufficiently bi. erin wasn’t politely turning down holtzmann’s overtures, she was totally oblivious of them. erin prefers hotdogs to hamburgers. and holtzmann respects that completely even while her face is like aw, fuck. and i just nodded to myself. like yeah, yep, me too, same, yup.
jillian’s actress is gay. jillian’s actress knows this situation, has lived this situation, grew up in this situation, she knows: most of the women you like will like men, and that sucks, but it’s no one’s fault, you can’t get mad. suck it up; laugh it off. you’re surrounded by brilliant, beautiful women all your life and you flirt and you dance and you preen and you have fun, but you have your honor, too, you also know what it’s like to be hit on by that creep at your job, to dodge innuendo and unwanted touches from that ‘friend’ who’s too friendly. you’re better than the men who get bitter about it. us weird girls, us girls who like girls and are girls, we all know.
i didn’t really expect to see something that real in ghostbusters, but damn. damn. it felt good. it felt like representation. it felt like a pat on the back i’ve never gotten. we know you. you’re here too.
(via goblinbutch)
