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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.

George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,

‘Their business model,’ he says, ‘is screen time, not life time.’

We don’t want our kids working in sweatshops, but we seem unconcerned about exploitation via their phones.

It was a perfect way to take the desire of teens for social connection and manipulate it to get them hooked.

Like Jane, Emma has been broken by the cultural psychosis that tells women to cram a lifetime’s supply of open self-interest into a single, incredibly expensive day.

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