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That age “progressively destroys” women, but not men, is the crux of what Susan Sontag termed the double standard of aging, back in 1972.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
This is one of the risks of taking on the role of the defender: if the dream is to lose yourself in a cause, you might wake up one day and realize that you’ve succeeded, and that there’s hardly anything left of you. Women, who are socially conditioned to be selfless, can be particularly susceptible to a version of heroism that sucks them dry.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison
The death of the public intellectual
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
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She was fascinated with women who martyred themselves. But then, to look at it a different way, she was fascinated with women who gave themselves over to revolutions.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Athleisure, Barre and Kale: The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman | News | the Guardian
Jia Tolentinotheguardian.comFor a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. And the one condition, it turns out, is money. If you have a lot of it, the legal road you get to travel is well lit and beautifully maintained. If you don’t, it’s a dark alley a
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