[ SECRET POST #5092 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5092 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don’t hate the movie, and I never loved the book--yet I still feel like the book is better. Or like…I think the book does a much, much better job of being for young teen girls, and giving them stuff they can actually relate to, while also giving them all those wish fulfillment elements.

The movie has the wish fulfillment, but it loses most of the relatability factor. It gives you the Hollywood Movie Written By Adults version of being an unpopular teenager, where everything is just big, glossy stereotypes, and “we know she’s supposed to be plain because her hair is frizzy--there, now she’s pretty, yay.”

Also, I will forever be grateful to the book(s) for making Mia flat-chested and self-conscious about it. As someone who was completely flat until I was fourteen, and grew tits at a glacial pace for like five years after that, it was extremely validating to have a protagonist who was described as being flat-chested, and still implied to be pretty. By the time I was fifteen or sixteen it wasn’t such a big deal to me anymore, but when I read the first book at twelve, I was actively getting teased at school for being “flat as a board” and looking “like a little kid,” so it was really comforting that Mia was described as being flat.