2nd wave feminism
Freud, and The Feminine Mystique
2nd wave feminism
“If the body is no longer a site of otherness but of identification, then we have urgently to become reconciled with it, repair it, perfect it, turn it into an ideal object. Everyone treats their bodies the way men treat women in projective identification: they invest them as a fetish, making an autistic cult of them, subjecting them to a... See more
A quote from The Perfect Crime
Welll shit. White woman magic does it again. But this time it’s rly at a loss. Love this language —
From somewhere else he says:
The result is a world where sexuality loses its meaning, identity becomes a technical construct, and the real woman disappears, replaced by a cultural artifact.
The social expectation and pressure to be beautiful under the pressure of consumer culture is representative of the detachment from true beauty. The cultivation of the superficial feminine was created as a medium in order to sell products. We saw this emphasized in the early 20th century with the emergence of teen culture. And as the years passed... See more
Cricket Guest • Digital Girls & the Taxidermy of the Female Image
The use of AI generated models in Vogue for example is a representation of the acceleration into this hyperreality. Not only are these AI models designed as Frankenstein-esque copies of pre-existing women, they exist as an expression of the feminine without the woman to even express it.