#stopsaddnesshate

[tellyphonestuff]

With the new Inside Out movie coming out soon I'm seeing a lot of reposted clips on TikTok of the first movie and I'm seeing SO MUCH SADDNESS SLANDER for NO REASON so heres all my reasons why we should stop shitting on Saddness because she's one of the best characters ever and I love Inside Out and she deserves better.

First of all I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THESE ARE NOT HUMANS. They're emotions. They're personified emotions, yes, but at their core they are emotions and can't fully understand or comprehend other emotions. We can see this when Disgust, Anger, and Fear are trying to act like Joy during the dinner scene. It's impossible. They can't relate to joy because at their core THEY CANT FEEL JOY. They don't understand how she works and therefore can't understand how or why she does the things she does. This is the same for Joy and Saddness.

Now lets talk about Riley. Riley is an 11 year old girl who's just moved from Minnesota to San Francisco. A very big change for an adolescent to go through. This is the ENTIRE point of the movie. It's hard to process your emotions at such a young age, and this is what the movie is trying to communicate. "Why can't Saddness just stop touching the orbs" "Saddness really pisses me off just listen girl" "Joy should just kill Saddness atp" SADDNESS CAN'T HELP IT. The whole freaking point is that its IMPOSSIBLE to supress your emotions forever. You can pretend to be happy all you want, but at the end of the day your true emotions are going to bubble up and explode. Saddness feels the need to touch these memories because Riley is upset, she misses her home and she's sad she will never be able to make new memories where she grew up. THIS IS NORMAL CHILD BEHAVIOR. At the end of the movie Joy and everyone else realizes she needs Saddness to balance everything out.

They are at odds the entire movie because JOY IS TRYING TO SUPRESS SADDNESS. RILEY IS TRYING TO SUPRESS HER SADDNESS. She knows the move has been hard on her family and she can see her parents are under a lot of stress so why would she add to that by telling her parents she's unhappy at this new place? This new place that seemingly nobody is happy about but they have no choice but to accept.

Did we all pass seventh grade English? Do we remember subtext? This entire movie is RIDDLED with subtext. I could go on and on about all the symbolism about growing up in this movie but that's not the point of this post. The point is to tell you that my girl Saddness has no control over what she's doing, clearly. Every single time she's caught touching one of the memories, she seems genuinely upset at herself and apologizes. She's subconsciously doing it BECAUSE OF RILEY. BECAUSE RILEY IS GOING THROUGH STUFF RIGHT NOW. GOD YOU'RE ALL IDIOTS STOP HATING ON SADDNESS

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