The Nightmare Before Christmas: Deep Thoughts About Culturally Appropriating Yuletide Cheer and Why Badass Women Get Stuck as Romance Fodder

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. What's this? What's this? There's overthinking everywhere!This week’s episode of Deep Thoughts takes a closer look at Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (which was actually directed by Henry Selick) to see what unintentional lessons the 1993 Hallow-Christmas classic taught us. The film serves as a fascinating metaphor for toxic masculinity and it makes an excellent point about the difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation. Also, Tracie raves about the agency and badassery of Sally, who uses her knowledge and skills to literally sew herself back together, which is a lesson that resonated with many women in the audience. But the sisters lament that this amazing character--like so many incredible women in fiction--is relegated to the status of love interest.But the music, artistry, and delightfully bizarre comedy is still enjoyable and iconic more than 30 years later, and well worth revisiting.Throw on some headphones to feel like your old bony self again!Mentioned in this episode:Nightmare Before Christmas as a parable of toxic masculinityhttps://www.theodysseyonline.com/the-nightmare-before-christmas-and-toxic-masculinityOur theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Learn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus episodes, video versions, and early access to Deep Thou​​ghts by visiting us on Patreon or find us on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/guygirlsWe are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!