Emily Ratajkowski's Searing Takedown of 'Blonde' Says Everything About the Disturbing Way Hollywood Fetishizes Women

Netflix’s newly released Blonde, which tells the story of Marilyn Monroe‘s traumatic childhood and tumultuous, exploitative Hollywood career, is stirring up heated backlash. In a scathing TikTok, Emily Ratajkowski had a few bones to pick with the film for its capitalization of female trauma and the movie industry’s continued fetishization of women suffering at the hand of the patriarchy.

Ratajkowski shared that while she hasn’t seen Blonde yet, she already has thoughts on the biopic based on the public commentary she’s been exposed to. “I’m not surprised to hear that it’s yet another movie fetishizing female pain even in death. We love to fetishize female pain.”

The model went on to explain, “Look at Amy Winehouse, look at Britney Spears, look at the way we obsess over [Princess] Diana‘s death, the way we obsess over dead girls and serial killers” — a timely example with Netflix’s Dahmer being the streaming service’s biggest debut since season 4 of Stranger Things.

So done with the fetishization of female pain and suffering. Bitch Era 2022

Ratajkowski went on to share, “I can say for myself for sure that I’ve learned how to fetishize my own pain and my own hurt in my life so that it feels like something that can be tended to, that’s kind of sexy, and like, you know, ‘I’m like this, oh, f—ed up girl, whatever,’ and I think we do that in many, many different ways… But I want that to change.”

EmRata then made a call for women to band together to protest the gross and violent fetishization of women like Marilyn Monroe, and women in general, saying, “You know what’s kind of hard to fetishize? Anger. Anger is hard to fetishize. So, I have a proposal. I think we all need to be a little more pissed off. I’m gonna be in my witch era; 2022, baby, is my b—h era. I think we should all be in our b—h era.”

She wrapped up her thoughts, saying, “I’m gonna be pissed off when I see the movie, I already know it, but it’s nothing new, and… Yeah. I’m just gonna get angry.” She captioned the TikTok, “So done with the fetishization of female pain and suffering. B—h Era 2022.”

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