On Bimbos and Tradwives - Majuscule
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On Bimbos and Tradwives - Majuscule
It’s possible if we want it. But what do we want? What would you want—what desires, what forms of insubordination, would you be able to access—if you had succeeded in becoming an ideal woman, gratified and beloved, proof of the efficiency of a system that magnifies and diminishes you every day?
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Female social control is justified by feminism
I was policed and abused by my mother until college. Outside the home, I was bullied by girls exclusively. In the past twenty years I’ve been socially exiled multiple times because I refused to conform to the women and girls around me. The rejection of soft control is read as hostility and betrayal,
... See moreLocked in the terrifying prison of one’s neuroses, where the increasingly narrowing paths to liberation always seem to invoke the language of individual healing, flourishing or self-improvement (therapy is wonderful, but it’s strange that a private, commodified exchange seems to have become synonymous with practising a public ethics of care), the
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