Do Words Mean Anything Anymore?
The Origins of Wokeness
paulgraham.com
The ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree, and perfectly competent. Is she really? To look any particular way and to actually be that way are two separate concepts, and striving to look carefree and happy can interfere with your ability to feel so. The internet codifies this problem, makes it inescapable; in recent years, pop culture has sta
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Anne Helen Petersen • 2 highlights
amazon.com
Perhaps the cleverest thing our patriarchal society ever achieved was to rehash this bricks-and-mortar anti-woman rhetoric with something a hundred times more vague and harder to shoot down: now, instead of women’s compliance being enforced as an imperative from above, it trickles down as a kind of pervasive doubt, finding a voice in the very women
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