The Great Feminist Exhaustion
Women are in the midst of a revolutionary reckoning with our ambitions. We’re not resigning en masse—because who can afford to quit her job in this economy?!—but we are trying to figure out a new set of goals and guidance for our professional lives. Thanks to long-simmering inequality and stubborn sexism, clarified by the pain of the pandemic, our... See more
Ann Friedman Published • What Comes After Ambition?
A postfeminist sensibility is one in which feminist ideas are said to have been “taken into account” already, obviating the need for radical social transformation along gender lines.14 In recent years this has mutated from outright repudiation of feminism into something more subtle: a sense of the “obviousness” of the importance of feminism,
... See moreRosalind Gill • Confidence Culture
What I thought feminism was about as a youth
Liberation from feminine behavioral and sexual norms
The freedom to self determine
Thinking for myself
Exercising agency over my life
Being resilient when others doubt me
Support from other women
Then I entered the real world and found life was exactly as depicted in Mean Girls.
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