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Gendered Daydreams: An Imagined Audience, the Observed Self, Male Gaze and Self-Surveillance in Women’s Fantasies.
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chatgpt.comi think reassuring at first because everyone wants to be less kept uncountable, especially once you’ve reached adulthood we miss the tolerance that the grown ups had for us since we don’t feel like we’re done learning but we can’t make the same mistake or be as irresponsible. and dedramatizing the stupid little things we do is funny. BUT it isn’t one or two memes, once it turns into a long-lasting theme with a rotation of trends inside: we lose the irony, (le second degree), it becomes plainly the base of other jokes so it’s integrated as “truth” or at least très premier degré. that’s when it’s very infantalizing and weird
But here’s the thing: while the trend gives us a shorthand for the chaos that comes with thinking and feeling deeply, it also flattens it. It takes complex identities, anxieties, and intellectual struggles and turns them into an aesthetic. And just like its predecessor, the "I’m just a girl" trend, "thought daughter" risks turning something real... See more
You Are Not a Thought Daughter: On Intellectualism, Consumerism ...
I really do hate how Gen Z and social media has made it so easy to parcel up and divide different pieces of our identities and resell them to us as brands and labels. Just be.
You Are Not a Thought Daughter: On Intellectualism, Consumerism, and the Flattening of Identity
The internet doesn’t encourage this, to be honest I don’t think it encourages truly living. There are countless reports that young people are socializing less, drinking less, working from home more, spending more time on the internet, using dating apps in place of going out, porn in place of sex. The internet is convenient, the real world is... See more