power structures and dynamics
- It’s easy, I think, to understand how patriarchy feeds on apathy, and jealousy, and white women protecting their small spheres of power. It’s harder, or at the very least sadder, to think about just how much of it runs on women’s deep, abiding sorrow.
from Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'
Natalie Audelo added 2mo ago
- These women have thoroughly internalized the male gaze, their to-be-looked-at-ness, and arrived at a place of incredible power — as objects. Their struggle, as evidenced by the ample time we spend with those who’ve “retired,” is figuring a sense of self outside of that objecthood.
from Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'
Natalie Audelo added 2mo ago
- In the end, this quest for a moral billionaire forced me to confront my own beliefs about wealth, power, and the nature of goodness in a complex world. I finished the exercise with hope—not because I found a simple answer to the question of what it means to be both wealthy and virtuous, but because I have discovered that even among the most powerfu... See more
from Can the Truly Moral Billionaire Please Stand Up?
Natalie Audelo added 6mo ago
- Millions of people — and white people in particular — would rather endure physical isolation, generalized loneliness, caregiving exhaustion, and financial precarity than relinquish some of their societal power. That’s a far less optimistic foundational myth than individualism. But it’s a far more honest one.
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
Natalie Audelo added 6mo ago
- And here’s the hard part. You can’t just decide fuck individualism, I’m blowing it up . You have to replace it with a better, more equitable story of who we are as a country and how we organize our society. Which, for a lot of people, would mean giving up a modicum of power. Liberal white people can loathe the effects of individualism and still ben... See more
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
Natalie Audelo added 6mo ago
- “beauty is supposed to serve power’s interests.”
from Dating After Divorce Wasn't What They Said It'd Be — Gloria
Natalie Audelo added 7mo ago
- The world can feel very out of control, especially for younger people. And controlling your own body is a coping mechanism. Part of the solution, if there is one, is to educate about this. There's so much out there right now about diet culture, and no one is really talking about beauty culture in the same way.
At the same time, a lot of this would b... See morefrom Is it Possible to Resist the Pressures of the Beauty Industry? — Gloria by Leslie Price
Natalie Audelo added 7mo ago
- “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
from Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work? by Hannah Giorgis
Natalie Audelo added 7mo ago
- My claim is that luxury goods are gradually becoming a noisier signal of one's position in society. This isn't to say that they don't still confer status — they clearly do. People still buy material items to signal their status. But because they've become a noisier signal over time, people are starting to signal their status with their beliefs and ... See more
from The Profile Interview: Author Rob Henderson on Why We Hold ‘Luxury Beliefs’ and Develop ‘Status Anxiety’
Natalie Audelo added 7mo ago