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But if men placed women on pedestals and delighted in watching them fall down, feminism has so far mostly succeeded in reversing the order of operations—taking toppled-over women and re-idolizing them. Famous women are still constantly tested against the idea that they should be maximally appealing, even if that appeal now involves “difficult” qual
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Algorithmic recommendations dictate genres of culture by rewarding particular tropes with promotion in feeds, based on what immediately attracts the most attention.
In 2018, the writer Liz Pelly identified "streambait" as one such genre: the "muted, mid-tempo, melancholy pop" characteristic of Spotify. In 2019, the writer Jia Tolentino similarly ide
... See morePor que elas acham que devem tratar “modelos” — manequins — como se fossem “modelos” — paradigmas?
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
A ocupação com a beleza, trabalho inesgotável porém efêmero, assumiu o lugar das tarefas domésticas, também inesgotáveis e efêmeras.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
Harvard Business Review • Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
Even when women are being heard, it is often only the right types of women who are actively heard. White ones. Rich ones. Pretty ones. Young ones. Best to be all those things at once.
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
McBride discovered that the algorithm offered lists of songs only by male country artists fourteen times in a row, refresh after refresh, before it…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
consiste no último e melhor conjunto de crenças a manter intacto o domínio masculino.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
Partia-se do pressuposto de que mulheres que reclamavam do mito da beleza tinham, elas sim, algum defeito: