Sublime

The feminist uncanny valley is the result of a larger neoliberal framework that over the past five decades has come to unite politics, economics, and culture in a web of individualism, privatization, and decreasing focus on both community and compassion.

Misogyny, as I’ve argued, finds in fatphobia a powerful and convenient ally: it constructs a ready-to-hand hierarchy among girls and women based on the infinitely gradable metric of body mass, usefully complicated by body shape, breast size, waist-to-hip ratio, and various markers of privilege.

can gender difference be thought of in terms other than inequality, even if we acknowledge that there is a constantly shifting game of liberties and compensations?

This is especially true in leftist circles, where such prejudices are now widely frowned upon, and would be an occasion for guilt, shame, and self-censure if admitted, even inwardly. Hence, as Paul Campos has argued, fatphobia can serve as a powerful proxy—and outlet—for these forms of bigotry: Precisely because Americans are so repressed about cla

By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.

Her handlers found her femininity helpful; as Young says, a woman is ‘well accustomed to manipulation for cosmetic effect’.

Eviction is a ubiquitous problem for black women, one that sociologist Matthew Desmond takes to be the undernoticed analogue of mass incarceration for black men, which constitutes a deep source of systemic injustice and disadvantage.

She thought that the digressions in the minds of men were endless. How many disguises were assumed before they could face themselves. How many justifications made in order that they might simply please themselves. How dangerous they were in their self-righteousness—infinitely more dangerous than women, who could never persuade themselves to the sam

If women were exploited more than men, wrote MacKinnon, it was their character that was seen to be the cause rather than their material condition. The fault lay inside us, not outside us. Even Karl Marx, who dreamed of abolishing class inequality through communism, couldn’t escape the suspicion that sexual inequality was an exception to other forms