I think that what you wrote about touched on some deep issues that are very buried in my everyday life - I don't think about these things too often because it's too painful! Glad you find it interesting, at any rate.
Just going by what you wrote about in this entry, I think you would find Ginger Snaps interesting, assuming you don't have an aversion to gory horror. I had never heard of it either when a friend showed it to me some seven or eight years ago, but it's stayed with me quite vividly ever since. I don't think I really shared the fear of the other older siblings on your friendslist that I would be forced to give up magical worlds in my adulthood, because there were so many adults in my life who modelled adulthood as a space where the imagination was indulged in just as much as it was by children. But I really did hate my adolescence, even though I wasn't expecting to, probably in part because I was so alienated in practice from the narrative of changes that I had theoretically had no problem with, and I tend to find narratives of girls' resistance to adolescence like Ginger Snaps, DWJ's "The Girl Who Loved the Sun," or Connie Willis's oddly similar "Daisy in the Sun" to be really powerful.
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Date: 2014-03-15 10:28 am (UTC)Just going by what you wrote about in this entry, I think you would find Ginger Snaps interesting, assuming you don't have an aversion to gory horror. I had never heard of it either when a friend showed it to me some seven or eight years ago, but it's stayed with me quite vividly ever since. I don't think I really shared the fear of the other older siblings on your friendslist that I would be forced to give up magical worlds in my adulthood, because there were so many adults in my life who modelled adulthood as a space where the imagination was indulged in just as much as it was by children. But I really did hate my adolescence, even though I wasn't expecting to, probably in part because I was so alienated in practice from the narrative of changes that I had theoretically had no problem with, and I tend to find narratives of girls' resistance to adolescence like Ginger Snaps, DWJ's "The Girl Who Loved the Sun," or Connie Willis's oddly similar "Daisy in the Sun" to be really powerful.