The Socially-Conscious Mean Girl

this article by @raynefq about the self being more consumable and how young women are susceptible to the tropes of a familiar identity as shown by 'complex female characters' https://t.co/lfCPMFhdBj

my social feeds seemed to finish their years-long transformation from a neighborhood populated with friends to a glossy condo development of brands.

iron law of the internet: any movement or subculture will be judged by its most cringe members

But this internecine internet feud is eclipsed, in Lorenz’s report­ing, by a shadow thesis of which she seems largely unaware: that the engine for this corporate revolution—this rerouting of business models and marketing campaigns from “connection” to “content creation”—has consistently been white women. White women producers (as mommy bloggers, My... See more