A women of the 21st century

The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter... See more

Whiteness is what allows for such oblivious neutrality: it is the premise of blankness, the presumption of the universal.