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When you are a woman, the things you like get used against you. Or, alternatively, the things that get used against you have all been prefigured as things you should like. Sexual availability falls into this category. So does basic kindness, and generosity. Wanting to look goodâtaking pleasure in trying to look goodâdoes, too.
Jia Tolentino ⢠Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
We have a situation in which women reject conventional femininity in the interest of liberation, and then find themselves alternately despising and craving itâthe pattern at work in Masseyâs spiritual journey away from Gwyneth and then back to her, as well as in the message-board communities where random lifestyle bloggers are picked apart.
Jia Tolentino ⢠Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
What drew me so desperately to Haraway at twenty, eager to find a way of being in the world that I could commit to, could follow towards something I wanted that I hadnât yet (then, or maybe even now) learned to articulate, was her additive lens: her commitment to both/AND, to celebrating a purposeful, pleasurably rigorous way of being. Haraway... See more
Athleisure, Barre and Kale: The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman | News | the Guardian
Jia Tolentinotheguardian.comLana, Taylor and anti-institutional realignment
Recently, I watched the Grammys and learned more about Lana Del Rey. I had no idea she was friendly with Taylor Swift, or that she and Taylor shared the same producer. These women have been pop stars for over a decade: Taylor the establishment good girl; Lana, the anti-establishment shock and awe... See more
Recently, I watched the Grammys and learned more about Lana Del Rey. I had no idea she was friendly with Taylor Swift, or that she and Taylor shared the same producer. These women have been pop stars for over a decade: Taylor the establishment good girl; Lana, the anti-establishment shock and awe... See more
Katherine Boyle ⢠Tweet
What are the women of pop music up to this summer? Being brats, Spencer Kornhaber writes. â
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It may sound like an insult, âbut when the hipster diva Charli XCX titled her new album âBratâ ⌠she crystalized a cultural mood: Seeming a little immature, a little selfish, a little nasty, has taken on an air of glamour,â... See more
instagram.comSally Darr, Formidable Chef of â80s-Era French Bistro, Dies at 100
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