I cannot stop thinking about this tweet
how would your younger self feel if they could hear how you talk about them?
Love that Greta and Jess immediately clocked each other and then proceeded to be A+ roommates by covering for each other at every turn.
Jess went out wearing pants and looking very gay? Nah she’s probably in the kitchen or out front smoking or something.
Greta snuck off and no one can find Carson? Absolutely not that woman went to the store and Carson is probably at the library or baking another conversation pie.
The most unrealistic part of A League of Their Own is simply putting the idea out there that any lesbian wouldn't instantly throw it all away for Greta Gill
i know everyone has already posted about how aloto portrays all these different kinds of women/lesbians/etc etc but honestly having a butch character who is SO uncomfortable with having to present as feminine & straight passing rly hit with me. lupe and jo obviously prefer to wear pants, but they're both able to switch into dresses & skirts when needed. it may not be their first choice, but it isn't the end of the world for them.
but it is the end of the world for jess. i think a lot about kelly mccormack's interview where she says that jess never really had to pretend to be anyone else before, and how disruptive that would be for her. how she's never had to look in the mirror and not recognize herself before. the fact that jess looks the most vulnerable when she's being forced into femininity. like, knowing that femininity isn't something that works for you and having to perform and fit in with it anyway is so!!
like!!! look how upset she is!! even though jess is introduced in the first episode as this kind of hard, tough tomboy ("you ever heard of shut the hell up?") she's immediately shown to be vulnerable and to have this weak moment when the league (and society) are asking her to do something that is so at odds with who she is. she knows who she is, and she likes that person, she is comfortable with that person. so why the hell do they want to fix her so bad? i think it's a great demonstration of how damaging that kind of societal pressure can be.
I don't think we talk enough about how utterly exhausted Greta must have been when she was first starting things with Carson. She thought it would just be another fling with a married woman, just like she'd done so many times, it would be a one or two time thing, then it would be over. She didn't expect this little baby gay who doesn't know/understand the rules to suddenly emerge and basically take over her life. She definitely didn't expect to fall in love for only the second time in her life, which is overwhelming by itself.
Now she's got this girl who just bursts into her room talking about rashes when she wants to go make out and takes her to "secret" spots that everyone else knows about and somehow discovers a gay bar when she didn't even know places like that existed. She's falling for this girl who gets excited about everything because she's just discovering this whole new world. And she's so desperate to keep Carson safe, she probably feels like she's got an untrained puppy off it's leash that she's gotta constantly chase down the street so it doesn't get lost or hurt.
No wonder they fell asleep in Greta's bed.
Greta probably needed a nap.
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