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Good Girl
On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
- I have also come to understand that trying to fit into society’s understanding of a “good girl” is a trap, the same way that the “model minority” and the “good gay” and the “good fatty” are all traps. Even when you succeed at it you lose, because these roles are all ultimately means of containment: of circumscribing power by putting exacting, contr... See more
from Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap
Natalie Audelo added
A woman with poor self-esteem who wants to be a “good girl,” who feels the need to retain mother’s or father’s love at all costs, often proceeds very obediently either to select a husband with whom happiness is clearly impossible or to manufacture unhappiness in a marriage where happiness might have been possible.
from Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect by Nathaniel Branden