Women like men too much
Women dress for women and secretly want the male gaze
The longer I live, the more it seems like outfits at work and in life are for female approval rather than for myself or some misplaced desire to get male approval. So tiring. Imagine how much money women would save if not for this thing we impose on each other.
Separately, women seem to want the m
... See more“It’s not singlehood, dear friend, that hurts; it’s not casual sex, the fluidity of our bonds, nor their ephemeral nature that causes pain.” Rather, it’s the way that power operates in relationships. Desire isn’t a spontaneous, apolitical passion; it’s shaped by the world around us, and by what we’ve been taught to value. Romance operates like a ma... See more
Hannah Giorgis • Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work?
The need for romantic love is thus imagined as so deeply entrenched in the structures of feminine subjectivity that women desire nothing so much as to be safely ensconced in the institutions, marriage and family, that will secure it. As de Beauvoir describes the woman in search of love and marriage, “she chooses to want her enslavement so ardently ... See more