Don Komarechka’s beautiful short film, “Winter’s Magic,” captures the beauty of soap bubbles as they freeze. It’s a delicate process and one difficult to capture in video. The bubble freezes first at the bottom, where it touches the cold surface – in this case, snow. That freezing releases latent heat and creates a temperature gradient along the thin liquid film. With that temperature gradient comes a variation in surface tension, and it’s this that creates the flow that lifts the ice crystals from the surface and turns the bubble into a snow globe. Eventually, as the frozen crystals continue growing, flow in the bubble walls comes to halt as the film solidifies.
Don Komarechka’s beautiful short film, “Winter’s Magic,” captures the beauty of soap bubbles as they freeze. It’s a delicate process and one difficult to capture in video. The bubble freezes first at the bottom, where it touches the cold surface – in this case, snow. That freezing releases latent heat and creates a temperature gradient along the thin liquid film. With that temperature gradient comes a variation in surface tension, and it’s this that creates the flow that lifts the ice crystals from the surface and turns the bubble into a snow globe. Eventually, as the frozen crystals continue growing, flow in the bubble walls comes to halt as the film solidifies.
Women, as a class, don’t need to be “soft, nice and sweet”. I’m not saying that we should act like total assholes, but we really don’t need to be told to be sweet. Women are already way too nice. Is society sweet with us? Are men “soft” with us? No.
Women need to learn to say “NO”. To say “ fuck off”. To say “leave me alone”, to say “stop, you’re annoying”. This is coming from a woman who struggles to say “no”, to say “ stop ”, because this is how i was educated. I was always told to smile, to be nice, to never be openly angry. And i’ve let others shit on me, i’ve let others treat me so badly, because “you should always be nice!”. I was told that my anger, my discomfort, was unappropriate. Being always nice sucks, i’m telling you. This is not how you gain respect, from anyone. Women, girls, be you, be strong. Be nice, but be strong, and don’t smile if you don’t want to. You are not a fucking Barbie doll, smiling to everyone isn’t required, at all. Men aren’t out there smiling to everyone. Don’t be nice with those who treat you badly.
[Image is a closeup photo of a page in an unidentified book. Text reads, “Teach her if you criticize X in women, but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert words like anger, ambition, loudness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness.”]
“I wish that girls could fail as bad as men do, and be okay, because let me tell you, watching men fail up—it is frustrating. It’s frustrating to see a lot of men blow it and win. And we hold ourselves to these crazy, crazy standards.”
