Women learn to “survey” themselves through the imagined eyes of others—specially a gaze that places women as consumer merchandise. As time goes on this performative version of femininity gets repeated, commodified, and circulated through media. This creates a feedback loop as inevitably these performances start referencing each other. Femininity... See more

Where it has come to be seen as feminine is for women to exist in an altered state. For example, for women to exist in their natural state of being unshaven and bare faced, free of makeup, would be seen as unfeminine or even masculine despite this being the natural unaltered state of woman. The masculine exists as the flesh of humanity, and... See more

The French theorist Jean Baudrillard, in his 1983 book Simulations , explains the concept of simulacra through Borges’s fable “On Exactitude in Science.” as follows...

Let’s say you have a territory of land. Afterwards you create a 1 to 1 scale map, and place it exactly over the territory, covering the land entirely in this map. Decades pass, and... See more