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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Two competing (?) thoughts kept going through my head while reading this: “Not even a celeb like Emily Ratajkowski can find a decent man to date” and “A celeb like Emily Ratajkowski especially can’t find a decent man to date”.

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Kelly Oxford on Ratajkowski's piece:

There are a few ways people will read this: Icon reclaiming her body, sad girl coping in leather, or a woman who went looking for herself and the entire search party was men...

The recovery is real and the relief is real and the writing is good, and the whole thing is still a woman holding herself up to a man to find out if she's still there.

This is what a working patriarchy does, the kind so deep in the water nobody tastes it. It doesn't stop a woman from finding herself. It just makes sure that when she goes to look, the only mirror in the house is a man's face.

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