on monsters - Gynoid
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Is womanhood at odds with the kind of obsession society praises?
Siren by Lee Krasner I’ve been haunted by a particular genre of TikTok video lately: that of the day in the life of a high-achieving housewife. The woman in question is usually both attractive and intelligent, and narrates her life to us, the audience, with a candid mix of humility, resignedness, and optimism. She lives in an extravagantly expensive house. She has cute children, probably two or three, whom she shepherds to school and to their extracurricular activities. She has help, a nanny and/or a housekeeper. She cleans, she sometimes cooks, she arranges flowers, she buys things. In…
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