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Hot White Woman Feminism™ - smitch + co.

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There is a segment of TikTok influencer holding a torchlight for the remaining resonance of feminist consciousness on the internet. Their purpose, I think, is to introduce basic tenants to the young and terminally online who frequent the infinite scroll page. TikTok has been decidedly anti-feminist for a few years now, and this brand of influencer teaches the ABC’s of a type of feminism, as basic as it is needed. I started calling it “Hot White Woman Feminism” earlier this year as a nod to its most recognizeable spokeswomen — Emily Ratajkowski, Alex “Call Her Daddy” Cooper, Dasha Nekrasova, and (sometimes?) Julia Fox. These are all extremely smart, strategic, pretty yt women, and my hypothesis is that they know exactly what they are doing. In 2022, we are beyond the exploratory, fearful imaginings of world + internet. We’re there, we’re living it, in all of its post-modern, hypersymbolic, coded, chaos. Our conceptions of femininity and desireability are not immune to the reconceptualiz

Hot White Woman Feminism™ resonating w/ the vague gender politics of women I literally do not know smitch Dec 01, 2022 10 Share There is a segment of TikTok influencer holding a torchlight for the remaining resonance of feminist consciousness on the internet. Their purpose, I think, is to introduce basic tenants to the young and terminally online who frequent the infinite scroll page. TikTok has been decidedly anti-feminist for a few years now, and this brand of influencer teaches the ABC’s of a type of feminism, as basic as it is needed. I started calling it “Hot White Woman Feminism” earlier

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