Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

by Jia Tolentino

snort down a bowl of nutrients that ward off the unhealthfulness of urban professional living.

subjugation

ever-higher levels of beauty to make up for the fact that we are no longer economically and legally dependent on men.

“inexhaustible but ephemeral”

ordinary faces are routinely photographed for quantified approval,

mainstream feminism has had to conform to patriarchy and capitalism to become mainstream in the first place.

work is rebranded as pleasure so that we will accept more of it

“enclothed cognition,”

Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic,

Morgan, the movie in which Anya Taylor-Joy plays

Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik

Little Women,

trepidation

but rather that she might end up marrying the first person who’s really interested in her.

The Bell Jar

desolate

generalized expectations of female conventionality can separate a woman from herself.

who was interesting to the degree that her life spun out of control.

when models of female happiness have always tended to benefit men and economically handicap women

“girlboss,” often defined in reference to male power even when theorized in an ostensibly emancipatory way).

omen