There is a new hit series on Netflix based on Marilyn Monroe’s life – Blonde. While the series reach enormous popularity and great ratings from the public, Emily Ratajkowski took to social media to criticize it for fetishizing female suffering and pain.
However, as feminists started cheering Emily Ratajkowski’s comments, many started criticizing her for commenting on something she doesn’t know. In the video, she reveals that she hasn’t watched the series yet. She says that the conversations surrounding it and the critics she reads on it online are the sparks that got her attention.
Emily Ratajkowski Criticizes Netflix’s Blonde Series About Marilyn Monroe For ‘Fetishizing Female Pain’
“I’m not surprised to hear it’s yet another movie fetishizing female pain even in death.” – the 31-year-old model Emily Ratajkowski said in a viral TikTok video. “We do that in many, many different ways, but I want that to change.”
Blonde is the newest addition to Netflix’s series. The streaming service aired it on the 28th of September. It is a fictional story about Merilyn Monroe’s life as the struggles to make a career in Hollywood. While the events might not be completely true and accurate, the director tries to depict Merilyn Monroe’s situation just before her sudden death. What Merilyn Monroe felt and struggled with internally before her premature death at 36.
“We love to fetishize female pain. 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. Then, watch any CSI episode and it’s like this crazy fetishization of female pain and death.” – the actress compared Marilyn Monroe to modern-time female figures with similar destinies.
The model continues to explain how she managed to fetishize her own pain.
“I can say for myself for sure that I’ve learned how to fetishize my own pain and my own hurt in 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—– up girl, whatever.” – Emily confessed. “You know what’s kind of hard to fetishize? Anger.” – she added.
“So, I have a proposal. I think we all need to be a little more pissed off. I’m gonna be in my b*tch era in 2022. Baby, this is my b*tch era. I think we should all be in our b*tch era. So done with the fetishization of female pain and suffering. B*tch- Era 2022. For reading on this !!! I can recommend Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls and Leslie Jamison’s essay Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain!”
