Dissertation
Over trays of Bonnie Bell Lip Smackers and mountains of cooling fries, I learned that being female is as prefab, thoughtless, soulless, and abjectly capitalist as a Big Mac. It’s not important that it’s real. It’s only important that it’s tasty.
Chelsea G. Summers • A Certain Hunger
The Bimbo: A Woman of Divinity
youtu.beFeminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
When you are a woman, the things you like get used against you. Or, alternatively, the things that get used against you have all been prefigured as things you should like. Sexual availability falls into this category. So does basic kindness, and generosity. Wanting to look good—taking pleasure in trying to look good—does, too.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
We have a situation in which women reject conventional femininity in the interest of liberation, and then find themselves alternately despising and craving it—the pattern at work in Massey’s spiritual journey away from Gwyneth and then back to her, as well as in the message-board communities where random lifestyle bloggers are picked apart.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.
Susan Sontag • Notes on Camp
I knew that because I was female, I would automatically have to prove my worth. And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously.







