and focuses only on the needs of a narrow subset of already privileged women; a version of feminism that is toothless and apolitical and fails to challenge the injustice of existing power structures, aiming only to insert women at the top of them. This type of feminism, commonly referred to as neoliberal feminism, tends to overlook the aspects of

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“People call romantic films ‘chick flicks’ as a way to diminish them, which I find unspeakably sad, not just for the way it excludes ‘chicks’ from the realm of ‘serious people,’ but also for the way it excludes ‘serious people’ from the realm of romance and love.

While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet

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