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My Friends Would Rather Have Their Guts Cut Open Than Be Like Me - [an Essay(ish)] (theestablishment.co)
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I stumbled across this while researching old feminist publications. I can't really explain why I liked it so much.

I don't agree with the author's perspective, but it's a point of view I'd never heard before, and she writes beautifully, with wit and humor and pain.

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

tbh I think the article is likely intended to be problematic, challenging, self-oriented, etc. - it reminds me of other Millennial "feminist" voices, like Lena Dunham (who also writes and embodies characters that are self-absorbed, problematic, neurotic, and who have bodies that are outside what is considered acceptable - e.g. her recent TV show Too Much, or her show Girls)

that said, it does make it harder to tell where the irony ends and sincerity begins - but maybe that's OK, part of the point is about just hearing the woman shouting into the void, I think there is a kind of catharsis in this for other women who have been victimized (and maybe in the case of this article, who have given up or developed different ways of thinking)