Trick Mirror

by Jia Tolentino

This is what the online expression of solidarity sometimes feels like—a manner of listening so extreme and performative that it often turns into the show.

It’s very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation, to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time.

Barre feels like exercise the way Sweetgreen feels like eating: both might better be categorized as mechanisms that help you adapt to arbitrary, prolonged agony.

porn and modeling and Instagram influencing are the only careers in which women regularly outearn men.