Emily Ratajkowski Calls Out Marilyn Monroe Biopic ‘Blonde’ For “Fetishizing Female Pain”

In a passionate September 30 TikTok, Emily Ratajkowski accused the new Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde of “fetishizing female pain.”

The model and author admitted she hasn’t yet seen the film but has “been hearing a lot [about it.]”

“I’m not surprised to hear that it’s yet another movie fetishizing female pain, even in death. We love to fetishize female pain,” she pointed out during the video. “Look at Amy Winehouse, look at Britney Spears, look at the way we obsess over Diana’s death, the way we obsess over dead girls and serial killers.”

Ratajkowski spoke candidly about her personal experience fetishizing her own pain. “I think as women — I mean, I can say for myself, for sure — I’ve learned how to fetishize my own pain and my own hurt in my life so that it feels like something that can be tended to,” she reflected. “It’s kind of sexy and like, you know I’m like this ‘Oh, fucked up girl,’ whatever. And I think we do that in many, many different ways.”

She emphasized, “I want that to change.”

The outspoken feminist encouraged her followers to “be a little more pissed off” about the misogynistic pattern and the film.

Ratajkowski continued, “I was thinking about it and, you know what’s kind of hard to fetishize? Anger. Anger is hard to fetishize, so I have a proposal. I think we all need to be a little more pissed off,” she urged. “I’m gonna be in my witch era. 2022 is my b-tch era. I think we should all be in our b-tch era. So I’m gonna be pissed off when I see this movie, I already know it. But it’s nothing new. And yeah…I’m just gonna get angry.”

Ratajkowski’s not the only fierce critic of the film. Since its September 16 cinema debut, Blonde has received loads of backlash. Many viewers have called out factual inaccuracy, the obsession with Monroe’s pain and disturbingly graphic sexual assault scenes. Planned Parenthood even criticized the film for “contributing to anti-abortion propaganda.”

Director Andrew Dominik seems unbothered by the feedback.

“It’s a demanding movie. If the audience doesn’t like it, that’s the f-cking audience’s problem,” he responded bluntly. “It’s not running for public office. It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe, it’s kind of what you want, right? I want to go and see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story.”

Clearly, that’s not what many viewers wanted.