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Izabela Arsovska-Braukmann

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how can the skam france team genuinely think they did a good job of dealing with the topic of racism when their most overtly racist character and therefore antagonist is redeemed with an apology where she says she’s sorry even though she doesn’t know what she did

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Ingrid: “I want to apologise for what happened even if I do not know what happened” @ Skam France writers are y’all okay???

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Look

I feel blessed just looking at her

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I truly believe...

...their apology by text was never meant to happen.

I truly believe the skam france team saw how bad the girls were being dragged on all platforms and decided at the last minute "let us throw a bone to stop the outrage"

They do take the viewers for idiots. Case in point, the botching job they are doing with Lucas & Eliott IG posts.

#skam france #imane bakhellal #apologies were still shit #well this season is

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All jokes aside, I’m thinking of teenage me. Teenage me who took all the microagressions of my so called friends to the point of being 17 and depressed. To the point of self-harming and trying to run away. And I remember how fucking freeing it was to realise that /I/ wasn’t the issue and that /I/ didn’t have to keep accomadating to all of that. That I could speak up and that it didn’t matter if people thought I was mean. That being alone was better than surounded by people who made me feel bad about myself. It took me years to realise that. Took me my 20’s to find the best friends I could have asked for. People who listen and care and bloody asked me to explain when I was tweeting things like “stop white people 2kever” and deconstructed their own prejudices. People I learned so much with and feel safe to be 100% myself around despite coming from so many different backgrounds. And after watching today’s clip and reflecting on SKAMfr season 4, a season that was very triggering to say the least, I think of what would have happened if I had never snapped out of it. If teenage me had apologised when I should have been apologised to. If I had accepted to just… Keep being friends with the girls I hang out with in Middle school and high school. I would have been so fucking miserable. And this is the conclusion that SKAMfr showed us today. That you, teenage POC/Muslims don’t get to be angry. You don’t get to be apologised to. You don’t get to voice how hurt people made you feel. You have to accomodate to your friends microagressions if you want to keep them because in the end they are your friends and they /love/ you.

It makes my skin crawl and it makes me think of this quote from the Perks of Being a Wallflower, “we accept the love we think we deserve”. So to send this kind of message to teenage POCs/muslims who are already struggling with SO MUCH and probably suffer from the microagressions and behaviour of their so call friends… To send them the message that “they love you so you should accept it because that’s all you have”? It’s not only violent it’s harmful.

This season proved time and time again that it wasn’t written for POCs/muslims but this was the last straw. I’m not even talking of the AWFUL message the fact that Manon went back with Charles gives to teenage girls. Once again I will say it loud and clear: this season is anti-feminist and HARMFUL to teenage girls, especially POCs/Muslims and praising it instead if adressing its issues would not be “not being a hater”, it will be CONDONING all that.

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As much as I’m a sappy hopeless romantic and love cheesy love scenes, I can’t bring myself to fully love these last sofimane scenes. The clips are beautiful and the chemistry is off the charts but it all feels out of place. How do you expect me to believe the Imane I know would run to his arms after the way he treated her two days ago and the weeks before that? How do you expect me to believe the Imane I know wouldn’t ask him for an explanation after he went out with her best friend? How do you expect me to believe the Imane I know would let her so-called friends believe they did nothing wrong after the way they’ve been treating her whole season? This is what happens when you try to do too much in so little time. Focus on one good storyline instead of 5 bad ones. Because out of those 5, you’re lucky if you can solve one. Because in the end, everything happens so fast, nothing is truly resolved and it’s all a mess. It’s like my teacher tell’s us: we have to treat every single injury, no matter how small it is. Because even the smallest one can grow and become your major problem. So you can do the most beautiful stitch on the outside and leave the tiniest scar (like these clips), but if you did not treat the internal would (all the other mess that happened in this season), it will never be truly ok. That’s what has happened with this season.

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As much as I’m a sappy hopeless romantic and love cheesy love scenes, I can’t bring myself to fully love these last sofimane scenes. The clips are beautiful and the chemistry is off the charts but it all feels out of place. How do you expect me to believe the Imane I know would run to his arms after the way he treated her two days ago and the weeks before that? How do you expect me to believe the Imane I know wouldn’t ask him for an explanation after he went out with her best friend? How do you expect me to believe the Imane I know would let her so-called friends believe they did nothing wrong after the way they’ve been treating her whole season? This is what happens when you try to do too much in so little time. Focus on one good storyline instead of 5 bad ones. Because out of those 5, you’re lucky if you can solve one. Because in the end, everything happens so fast, nothing is truly resolved and it’s all a mess. It’s like my teacher tell’s us: we have to treat every single injury, no matter how small it is. Because even the smallest one can grow and become your major problem. So you can do the most beautiful stitch on the outside and leave the tiniest scar (like these clips), but if you did not treat the internal would (all the other mess that happened in this season), it will never be truly ok. That’s what has happened with this season.

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I can’t be the only one who thinks that dance scene was a cringefest 

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How yall forget whole shitty season with one dance scene i truly have to laugh the bar is too low

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Not gonna lie, I really don’t want Imane to become friends with the girl squad again

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can y’all imagine the power an actual imane season could have? showing her experiences as a muslim woman and as a black woman and how those intersect in france, showing her rebuilding her relationships with jamila & with her old friends from her neighborhood, showing her dealing with the casual racism ingrained in her white friends and the judgements from all sides, showing her loving supportive family, showing her observing ramadan & how her faith brings her joy and peace through difficult times, showing her falling in love with a kind funny thoughtful muslim boy and what that relationship looks like… it really could have had it all!

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THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL 😍

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BUT MUSLIM GIRL BALLOON SQUAD!!!! where were these girls this whole season? like y’all are telling me I had to sit through all that white nonsense when these girls were like just there… @ skam france what?

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Now this was the type of content I wanted to see this season. Imane hanging out with other muslim girls, some who are of different races and all of them being able to talk freely about their religion and cultures. As a Muslim myself, I can tell you that it was actually very real and how me and my Muslim friends talk. The drama this season could have easily been just about Sofiane and this type of scene could have easily replaced her awful scenes with the girls. Frankly I hope she replaces the entire girl squad with these amazing girls.