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Why ‘Girls’ Rule the Internet
As a working paper put it, “Men in general are seen as possessing more of whatever characteristic is most culturally valued.”
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Women can be fierce, strong, unapologetic. The lines are blurring and standing in the middle is a new generation of women who have control to make the lives they want.
Rohit Bhargava • Non-Obvious 2017: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict The Future
I doubt online “gender” arguments will abate any time soon. The tussle between men and women is a culture war as old as humanity itself: men and women always need to find a way to live together, which means negotiating those ways our material interests and physical capacities align or exist in tension. With the wider world in flux, it’s hardly surp... See more
On the way down into the uncanny valley, we’ve decided that images of women in power, in the abstract, are as important as people of any gender who are actually working to make equality a reality for everyone.
Andi Zeisler • We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
In the beginning the internet seemed good.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
This process directs anti-patriarchal, feminist sentiment into the narrow channel of the mirror, rather than outwards, towards communal, longer-term feminist goals. The soft smiles and high-pitched giggles are admittedly alluring after the disappointments of earlier feminist movements, but the ecstasy of idiocy reveals a darker sentiment than even ... See more