The Brat-Ification of Kamala Harris
OW #20: "The Parable of the Coconut: On Kamala Harris’s 2024 Campaign Strategy" by Noemi Biasetton
buttondown.com
Part of the curriculum of growing up as a girl is to learn lessons about your vulnerability—if not from your parents, then from a culture that’s fascinated by wounded women.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
As the acid-tongued, defiant Kat Stratford in “10 Things I Hate About You,” Stiles provided, for a generation born just too late to be riot grrrls, a vision for how to be a cool teenage girl whose every move did not revolve around appeasing the appetites or fulfilling the fantasies of teenage boys.
Julia Stiles Wanted to Be Just Like Kat Stratford, Too
Maybe because she often comes across as a semi-woke version of Tony Robbins.
She humanistically liberalizes systemic oppressions as opportunities for individual and often spiritual enlightenment. For her, it’s all about the personal journey of building individual resilience under a 'growth for its own sake' mindset.
She re-brands old defunct social... See more
She humanistically liberalizes systemic oppressions as opportunities for individual and often spiritual enlightenment. For her, it’s all about the personal journey of building individual resilience under a 'growth for its own sake' mindset.
She re-brands old defunct social... See more
r/CriticalTheory - Reddit
“Shrillness” is just a word to describe what happens when a woman, with her higher-toned voice, attempts to speak loudly. A pejorative, in other words, developed specifically to shame half of the population when they attempt to command attention in the same manner as men.