A little off topic, but relatedly, have you seen the Kimmy Schmidt episode with the Italian grandmother? It’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

It’s going to be a group of 19 year old sorority girls and when Piggy (a curvy size 6) takes off her glasses she whips her hair around and suddenly becomes hot. We’re not go into talk about what the twins end up doing in the jungle.

It’s definitely going to suck. And I can’t WAIT to see what they do with the character from the novel (and the movie adaptations) known, not very affectionately, as “Piggy” who was also plagued by asthma. You just KNOW they’re gonna negotiate that whirlpool flawlessly.

Because why would you want to pay homage to a woman author or have any women involved in a film about young women?

Thank you for that assessment of the context of this novel.This work falls under the aegis of my primary specialty in Doctoral studies, and it’s a shame that people just write the novel/movie off as a simple Tale of Male Aggression.

I’ve read their ‘clever’ plan to avoid body shaming is to cast the Miss Piggy as the character and then claim casting a Muppet in an all human movie as revolutionary.

No way they cast an actual plain chubby girl as Piggy.

Thing is, Lord of the Flies was a response to a particular conceit of British pulp novels which depicted young boys/men being stranded as a fun adventure with little internal conflict. Golding took the subject of entitled British boarding school boys and the kind of savagery he saw in how they acted with each other…

Grapefruit LaCroix and I’ll turn this shit up to 11. :)

its going to be a train wreck

Is there any way to REALLY not see a movie? Something beyond just not seeing it? I want to do that.

It’s the Jezebel break room when there’s only one peach LaCroix left.

Exactly- keep the aggression exactly as-is. Don’t change it to talking behind someone else’s back and slap fights. Keep it utterly brutal and show us why that makes us so much more uncomfortable when it’s girls instead of boys. Make us interrogate our own assumptions and stereotypes.

Is everyone going to say sorry every time they accidentally bump into one another?

Or, rather, it’s what the “Heathers Reboot” SHOULD have been.... Say, maybe we can mash these two dippy projects together, and save everyone a lot of headaches.

1) There is no one crueler than a teenage girl.
2) What is the sexual appeal of two women fighting?

Soooo smug

I just hope the girls all get monkey butlers.

Just looking at their carefully manicured smug faces makes me want to punch them.

So... it’s Real Housewives for girls?