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Mithesh Gawande

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  • Similarly, online coaching guidelines are not subversive; they are ornate and intricate confirmations of the status quo, coated in benevolence. By grooming women to perfect dependence—i.e., be the prize, extract provision, perform purchasable ‘femininity’—the ideology rebrands traditional subordination and subjugation of women in a more palatable way. However, it is the same cage with velvet drapery and embellishments. Such an ideology still centers men and shrinks women, where the metric of success is male approval and male resources. Women believe that in order to attain wealth and status, t…
    Men Aren’t Wallets. Women Aren’t Prizes.
  • “The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
    Men Aren’t Wallets. Women Aren’t Prizes.
  • “Books became valuable not only for what they said, but for what they allowed their readers to say about themselves” (Brier 2012). And with the rise of social media, people can strategically curate the identity or performance they would like to put on for others, allowing them to use books as props in doing so. The novel has increased in popularity in recent years due to its ability to circulate within commercial institutions, rather than as a serious art form that is able to significantly impact public discourse and larger cultural values. Now, books gain popularity not through critical engag…
    intellectualism, but make it curated - by Paige
  • what gives someone the urge to take a picture and share with others that they are reading something, as opposed to just actually reading it without sharing that online? Are people actually reading the books that they post online? Why has the book become a prop?
    intellectualism, but make it curated - by Paige
  • The Diet Coke acts as an emblem of the simulacrum of feminine performance. Beneath the beautiful, sleek exterior, carefully curated, and meticulously branded for consumption is a synthetically sweetened poison, slowly eating away at the flesh. Much like feminine performance, which is also defined by a carefully curated image that is meticulously branded for consumption, though ultimately is a carcinogen that eats away at both the psyche and the flesh of the girl it possesses. Not only is it a drink that appeals to women, it’s a drink that contributes to the image of femininity just by drinking…
    The Diet Coke Essay - by Cricket Guest - Final Girl Digital
  • Similarly, the “female red-pill” mirrors this posture, only with a softer varnish and more palatable rhetoric. It urges women to ‘wake up’ to male nature—which is inherently oppressive, sexual, unfaithful, and undisciplined—and answer objectification with a counter: if men reduce us to bodies, reduce them to wallets. It postures ‘femininity’ as a narrow, purchasable ideal. Women who become ‘high-value’, perfect their performance, cater to the male ego, and manipulate provision from a position of emotional detachment. They think they are the prize and they are to be chased. Men are invaluable b…
    Men Aren’t Wallets. Women Aren’t Prizes.