"Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny"
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It lands like a tossed-off confession, but it’s also a carefully placed cultural flare. Jolie frames desire as taste rather than identity, using a breezy “Honestly” to imply candor and disarm judgment before it arrives. The list that follows is quick, playful, and pointed: “boyish girls, girlish boys” flips gender presentation into a spectrum, not a rulebook. Then she swerves into “the heavy and the skinny,” widening the aperture beyond gender to body diversity. The syntax matters here; it’s a pileup of types delivered without hierarchy, as if attraction is less a moral position than a simple, stubborn fact.
The subtext is defiance wrapped in nonchalance. By refusing to over-explain, she rejects the demand that public women, especially famous ones, provide a thesis statement for their sexuality. This isn’t a courtroom testimony or a coming-out script; it’s a refusal to be pinned to a single lane. “Like everything” is obviously not literal, and that exaggeration functions as shield and provocation: if you try to police her boundaries, she’ll widen them until policing looks absurd.
Contextually, a star of Jolie’s era saying this in interviews hit differently than it would now. In a media climate addicted to categorizing women as either “wholesome” or “dangerous,” she leverages celebrity to normalize ambiguity. The line doubles as persona-making: Jolie as the unapologetic outsider who won’t perform purity, and won’t apologize for appetite.
The subtext is defiance wrapped in nonchalance. By refusing to over-explain, she rejects the demand that public women, especially famous ones, provide a thesis statement for their sexuality. This isn’t a courtroom testimony or a coming-out script; it’s a refusal to be pinned to a single lane. “Like everything” is obviously not literal, and that exaggeration functions as shield and provocation: if you try to police her boundaries, she’ll widen them until policing looks absurd.
Contextually, a star of Jolie’s era saying this in interviews hit differently than it would now. In a media climate addicted to categorizing women as either “wholesome” or “dangerous,” she leverages celebrity to normalize ambiguity. The line doubles as persona-making: Jolie as the unapologetic outsider who won’t perform purity, and won’t apologize for appetite.
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| Topic | Love |
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| Source | Help us find the source |
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