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Mulheres sexistas ainda estão dispostas a deixar homens ainda mais sexistas moldarem suas fantasias e as colocarem em trajes ridículos.
bell hooks • Comunhão: a busca das mulheres pelo amor (Trilogia do Amor) (Portuguese Edition)
While women could be prejudiced and discriminate against men in individual interactions, women as a group could not deny men their civil rights.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The central conflict, which I hope has been made clear throughout this book, is that while feminist movements seek to change systems, marketplace feminism prioritizes individuals.
Andi Zeisler • We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
A competição entre as mulheres foi incorporada ao mito para promover a divisão entre elas. A juventude e (até recentemente) a virgindade são “belas” nas mulheres por representarem a ignorância sexual e a falta de experiência.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
We’re evidently in control of our view of culture. And with that, bespoke facts and realities.
ZINE • Will Smith, Cultural Synchrony & A Climate Crisis
But if men placed women on pedestals and delighted in watching them fall down, feminism has so far mostly succeeded in reversing the order of operations—taking toppled-over women and re-idolizing them. Famous women are still constantly tested against the idea that they should be maximally appealing, even if that appeal now involves “difficult” qual
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The ego, already so key to effective advertising, is indispensible to empowertising, with its emphasis on the “personal sell” that takes the focus off objective value and places it firmly within the buyer’s sense of individual mythology.
Andi Zeisler • We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
The insidiousness of second-generation gender bias—informal exclusion, lack of mentors and role models, fear of conforming to stereotypes—colluded with the ideological spread of neoliberalism to recast institutional inequity as mere personal challenges.