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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
... See moreAnne 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 Ottenheymwritersblockmagazine.comJane 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
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
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