I've been thinking about appropriation--not just cultural appropriation, but of a variation of appropriation that is equally if not just a little more sinister: the appropriation of appearance. This is something that is bodily, involves policing the autonomy itself of women of color, and results in valuing the woman wearing the imitation more than the …
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The ostensible inferiority complex of the stereotypical “bad boy” is downright embarrassing and wholly unattractive, manifesting itself in a quality of adolescence in that it panics to destroy whatever obstacle to dominance it perceives, marked by a pathetic sense of whiney distress at the face of threatened undeserved power. There’s nothing less appealing than a …
Religious leaders during sermons often advise their congregations not to love this world, explicably sensing that love of this world will replace the love of God. While this is a justifiable claim—people enraptured in the material often experience emptiness which they attempt to fill with more material, believing they are achieving what the material superficially …
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the fatal feminist 