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Young women use the linguistic features that they do, not as mindless affectations, but as power tools for establishing and strengthening relationships.
Amanda Montell • Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu
... See moreShe came up with a theory called gender performativity, which essentially says that gender isn’t something you are, it’s something you do.
Amanda Montell • Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
I’m extremely wary of the cult of contemporary self-making, and the fact that it’s become an expected part of life in the attention economy for middle-class workers.
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram, we... See more
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram, we... See more
Tara Isabella Burton • Self-Made ft. Tara Isabella Burton: The History & Future of Self Curation
Beware the Curators
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