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The McConnaissance: An Alternate Reading
IN EPISODE TWO of HBO’s stunning new series True Detective, the laconic Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey, spends a significant amount of car time with his partner, Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson), trading quips and offering the audience veiled truths about themselves. It’s a trope of the procedural: cops, even female ones, are aspiring always towards […]
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
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2017
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Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
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2020
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The Burnout Generation
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2019
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Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
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2021
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
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2014
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The Moms Are Not Alright
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An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin
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2013
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“She should be assertive but not bossy, feminine but not prissy, experienced but not condescending, fashionable but not superficial, forceful but not shrill. Put simply: she should be masculine, but not too masculine; feminine, but not too feminine. She should be everything, which means she should be nothing. That”
― Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
― Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
“The desire for the cool job that you’re passionate about is a particularly modern and bourgeois phenomenon—and, as we’ll see, a means of elevating a certain type of labor to the point of desirability that workers will tolerate all forms of exploitation for the “honor” of performing it. The rhetoric of “Do you what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life” is a burnout trap. By cloaking the labor in the language of “passion,” we’re prevented from thinking of what we do as what it is: a job, not the entirety of our lives.”
― Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
― Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
“It’s one thing to be young, cherub-faced, straight woman doing and saying things that make people uncomfortable. It’s quite another – and far riskier – to do those same things in a body that is not white, straight, not slender, not young, or not American.”
― Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
― Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
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