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Honey is FREE and finds coupons with the click of a button. Thanks Honey for sponsoring! | After countless boy-meets-girl romances, Hollywood has recently turned its attention to a new kind of love story: the female friendship. The idea that a platonic girlfriend can be your soulmate has become mainstream in shows like Insecure, Broad City, and Dead to Me, and in movies such as Girls Trip and Booksmart, and the increasing seriousness devoted to this subject represents a remarkable cultural shift. Here’s our Take on how the female friendship has become one of the most complex, essential, and revolutionary relationships onscreen today. If you like this video, subscribe to our channel or support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetake
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Booksmart (2019)
Frances Ha (2012)
Someone Great (2019)
Life Partners (2014)
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Girls Trip (2017)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)
The Women (1939)
Mean Girls (2004)
My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
Legally Blonde (2001)
The Layover (2017)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Casablanca (1942)
27 Dresses (2008)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Single White Female (1992)
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Color Purple (1985)
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Girlhood (2014)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Nine to Five (1980)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Now and Then (1995)
Thirteen (2003)
Girlfriends (1978)
Friends (1994-2004)
Girls (2012-2017)
Insecure (2016-)
Dead to Me (2019-)
Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
Grey’s Anatomy (2005-)
Broad City (2014-2019)
PEN15 (2019-)
Shrill (2019-)
Derry Girls (2018-)
Sex and the City (1998-2004)
Big Little Lies (2017-)
Gossip Girl (2007-2012)
One Tree Hill (2003-2012)
30 Rock (2006-2013)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
New Girl (2011-2018)
I Love Lucy (1951-1957)
Girlfriends (2000-2008)
Fleabag (2016-2019)
My Brilliant Friend (2018-)
Ghost World (2001)
Black Swan (2010)
The DUFF (2015)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
13 Going on 30 (2004)
How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)
Stranger Things (2016-)
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Juno (2007)
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I wish I had a friend. Tired of having no one to send me memes to. 🙁
19:07 BTS's song Spring Day portrays this feeling beautifully
I’m sending this video to my best friend. Gotta show her some love 💕
As a lesbian, this video essay made me feel lucky to have my straight female friends. By that I mean that my friends didn't believe the negative portrayals of straight/gay friendships. For many years lesbians were portrayed as obsessed psychopaths and their friendship as a danger to straight women. Honestly, I think a lot of those movie scripts were written by straight men who were insecure about female friendships as rivals.
I have never longed for any of my straight friends in a romantic or sexual way. We're just people, we just want friends that we can relate to. It never occurred to me to think of them that way. And if they ever I wondered if I did they never let on.
I loooved this! Y’all are missing girlfriends tho! It is révolutionary!
Im surprised golden girls was not mentioned. Unless im wrong.
This made me realize that I been neglecting my best friend lately. I was struggling with my grades and I needed to focus but that's not an excuse to forget someone whose so important in your life. I feel really bad, but maybe she´s been feeling like I don´t love her anymore all this time.
i feel so bad for girls who say “i dont like girls, theyre too much drama, id rather have guyfriends” like yes!! Female friendships are intense but that makes it BETTER. while you are out watching sports with your guyfriends or whatever i will be with the girlies sharing trauma ❤️
I'm so glad the this is talked about. I love my female friends with all my fucking heart, there are no words to express how much.
Female rivalry is misogynist propaganda. I almost want my friends to be happy more then i want my self to be happy. We are comrades in arms against patriarchy.
I wonder how much of this shift I due to more Women writers.
My favorite friendship break up story: The Social Network. My favorite female friendships on tv: Daria and Jane, and Tuca & Bertie…
Too bad you didn't include Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy from the latest adult animated show, their relationship is the core of the series…
Thanx, Girls, great as usual!!!
I would be interested in seeing one of these with male friendships and how they’ve evolved. I’ve noticed that Workaholics, Magic Mike 2 and Changeland have all normalized non-hypermasculine friendships and o think that’s important to talk about. Also, it’s way more fun to see male friendships just having fun without competing
Everyone: platonic friends in TV and movies
Me: lesbians
Nooooo I’m only on the first season of Insecure, I’m sad to see this is where Issa and Molly’s relationship goes 😪
THIS video. Right there is why I adore female friendship even though I'm so sick and tired of tropes of boy-meets-girl romances and girls being catty or jealous. It's so beautiful yet complicated.
Thank you! I love this video, you all are amazing.
The ending of Broad City had me in tears,
Friendship between women is the most pure and powerful bond you can have. It took me reaching adulthood to realise that.
I stan a female friendship. Female friendship is worshipped and holy in this house.
I ADORE this style OMG
I spend my whole quarantine time watching only this style 😂
Dude… Booksmart is so underrated…
It's interesting how Natalie Alyn Lind has essentially portrayed one character in every major role she's played and that character embodies some of the tropes that stood out in this analysis. She's always the stunningly beautiful girl who doesn't really have any meaningful female friendships and whose storylines revolve almost entirely around male characters. This is even more obvious in Gotham where her character has absolutely no purpose other than to engage in a vicious competition with another girl over a boy. And her storylines are often heavily focused on one singular heterosexual romance.
yup just some gal pals
Everyone just remember that if you can’t be best friends with your romantic partner, then it won’t last. Romance isn’t some magical, fixer-upper that will make your life worth living. It’s special, and valuable but no more than a platonic best friend relationship.