As a woman, you can’t look at that face without seeing the façade, but as a girl, it would be easy to convince yourself that such perfection exists.
Maybe Don’t, Or, Some Thoughts on Kim’s “Makeup-Free” Face
A Potential Analysis of My Missing Eyebrow Fever Dream
It was all my insecurities manifested as some sort of Dali-esque nightmare…the makings of a surrealist film that Women’s Studies majors would go to town with.
Why Our Privileging of “The Guy’s Girl” is Bad For Women
Society has built up a problematic narrative where the ideal woman acts in a very particular way: she doesn’t care about superficial things (make-up, fashion), yet always manages to look and feel perfect despite that. Call it Jennifer Lawrence syndrome, if you will.
On “Deconstructing Clean Notions of Girlhood”
Growing up ‘girl’ is not all tea parties and lavender scented day-of-the-week panties. It isn’t easy, or subtle, or clean—it isn’t in the realm of femininity in which we’ve been taught to remain. Though a new photography exhibit claims to be ‘disrupting’ these preconceived notions, I argue that it’s just caving to a similar strain.
EliteDaily, You Are Not the Voice of Our Generation
Trying to assign one lifestyle or worldview to an entire generation of people is bound to be faulty, but EliteDaily really wins the award for hitting the ball farthest out of the park. Actually, I’m not even sure they’re starting in the park—they’re somewhere far outside it, seemingly locked in the basements of their college frat house (a land where tales of Taylor Swift’s de-virginizer moonlight as worthwhile news).
I Have A Vagina and I Have Sex, But Talking About Them Is Considered “Coarse”
I don’t use curse words or sexual language in a demeaning way, and to assume that a girl can’t say words like “fuck” without doing so is to submit to supremely dated gender stereotypes.
Orange – A Lot More than Just the New Black.
Though Kanye has made it clear that this is the summer of leading, not following (or more specifically: being a dick, not a swallower) I can’t help but trail the crowd that’s […]
