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While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet

Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

(It’s arguable that we could understand the institution of celebrity itself as similarly suspicious: despite the prevailing liberalism of Hollywood, the values of celebrity—visibility, performance, aspiration, extreme physical beauty—promote an approach to womanhood that relies on individual exceptionalism in an inherently conservative way.)

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Margaret, the Males aren’t Gazing: The Man in my Head Keeps Torturing Me

Marijne Ottenheym writersblockmagazine.com

Alt Lit | The Point Magazine

Sam Kriss thepointmag.com

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have... See more

Jane Dodge • Deconstructing The Cool Girl — Strike Magazines

Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert

“how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves”

1990s new decade of sexual liberation- where looking was sanctioned as it was so much safer than touching (aids epidemic influence on culture, music etc).
But act of looking requires object & that object was women
Riot girl v spice girls (woman making their

And then there’s the obvious: men as a whole are embarrassing. Times are hard. The bar is subterranean. The probability of a man humiliating you publicly, digitally, or spiritually is dangerously high. They will cheat, fumble, like a thirst trap, or worse, start a podcast. And when that happens, you go from “iconic” to “unfortunate” in record time.

maisa • "is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?" yes, and that’s why we’re hiding them

The ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree, and perfectly competent. Is she really? To look any particular way and to actually be that way are two separate concepts, and striving to look carefree and happy can interfere with your ability to feel so. The internet codifies this problem, makes it inescapable; in recent years, pop culture has