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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
Why Women Vote Against Themselves and How to Prevent It
Jo-Ann Finkelstein, PhDjoannfinkelstein.substack.com
Girl on Girl- Sophie Gilbert
“Women belong in soft core photo shoots, not in parliament”
“Power for women was sexual in nature”
“Who wouldn’t want to be a girl again, given the alternative?”
(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
