Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'
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Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'
our most venerated heroes are those who (ostensibly) “did it themselves,” even if they absolutely did it, whatever it is, with the invisibilized labor of women, or exploitative and racialized labor practices, or the benefits of familial wealth.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
When the “womanly” art of living up to private emotional conventions goes public, it attaches itself to a different profit-and-loss statement.
Arlie Russell Hochschild • The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
This process directs anti-patriarchal, feminist sentiment into the narrow channel of the mirror, rather than outwards, towards communal, longer-term feminist goals. The soft smiles and high-pitched giggles are admittedly alluring after the disappointments of earlier feminist movements, but the ecstasy of idiocy reveals a darker sentiment than even ... See more
On Bimbos and Tradwives - Majuscule
Being the only woman on a nontechnical team, providing customer support to software developers, was like immersion therapy for internalized misogyny. I liked men—I had a brother. I had a boyfriend. But men were everywhere: the customers, my teammates, my boss, his boss. I was always fixing things for them, tiptoeing around their vanities, cheering
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