Sublime

Young women use the linguistic features that they do, not as mindless affectations, but as power tools for establishing and strengthening relationships.

a ideologia da beleza é a última remanescente das antigas ideologias do feminino que ainda tem o poder de controlar aquelas mulheres que a segunda onda do feminismo teria tornado relativamente incontroláveis. Ela se fortaleceu para assumir a função de coerção social que os mitos da maternidade, domesticidade, castidade e passividade já não consegue

“Shrillness” is just a word to describe what happens when a woman, with her higher-toned voice, attempts to speak loudly. A pejorative, in other words, developed specifically to shame half of the population when they attempt to command attention in the same manner as men.

A área da aparência parece ser aquela na qual as mulheres sentem poder exercer mais facilmente algum controle sobre as reações que suscitam”. Contudo, elas “também percebem que em geral precisam assumir a responsabilidade por terem provocado essas violações”.

The narratives that emerge around Twitter hashtags evolve more quickly than traditional media, and for this reason Twitter has become one of the major tools for disseminating information to the public in the hope of spurring particular actions or outcomes.

Molly Graham’s

qualquer mulher se arrisca a ser descrita com o mesmo adjetivo se se identificar com as ideias dela.

they weren’t the only ones warping my sense of reality—it was also the many flavors of online Nazi, the school shooters and the girls who longed to love them, the edgelords and their aggressive brooding, cranky old Ayn Rand—all these various manifestations of a worldview that insisted what mattered most was power, and that getting attention gave yo