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Soft Focus, Hard Labour: Prescribed Femininity and the Performance of Dependence
There is a new fantasy woman drifting through culture right now and it looks an awful lot like a woman who wears cream cashmere in the middle of the afternoon, knows how to arrange peonies in expensive glass vases, speaks softly enough to be considered emotionally intelligent, and has somehow transformed financial dependence into a…
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What makes a truly addictive personality?
An anthropological analysis of ‘star quality’ There is a moment in every fame spiral where the person stops being a person and becomes a substance. You can watch it happen in real time in the comment sections. The language shift from when someone is considered ‘niche’ to when they’re considered mainstream is a major identifier…
