Across the world, self-proclaimed feminists don’t support other women. And where do we see this more than on reality TV, in which women fight and others watch for their enjoyment? Recently, the sixth season of Netflix’s Selling Sunset aired. If you don’t know, the show is set in the real estate world of LA, with models for agents and enough bitch fights to go around. Throughout the long-winded show, women have come and gone, replaced each other, and gotten into fights about love and loss and the complications of female friendships. And among petty dramas, Netflix reaps the profits and viewers reap the satisfaction of watching women fight on screen.
Continue ReadingSorry to Disappoint, but you can’t Become ‘Old Money’ Through your Clothes
Hypergamy, or the act of marrying a social class higher than one’s own class, has been a common trend throughout societies for centuries. Dating back to India’s caste system, hypergamy has had a relevant position in the idea of gaining power in the world, especially for women. In most cases, hypergamy applies to a man […]
Continue ReadingThe Met Gala: Forgiving and Forgetting Karl Lagerfeld’s Past
The term “separate the art from the artist” has never been truer than at the 2023 Met Gala, which sought to pay tribute to fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld through its theme: “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”. Most known for his contribution to Chanel, Lagerfeld became an international success from the 1980s to the early […]
Continue ReadingWomen are Emerging as Villains: The Demonization of Women in Film
We’ve all seen them. The overprotective, obsessive, and frankly evil mothers-in-law to their perfect sons. They stand in the way of the beautiful wife, who they must be jealous of because she is so much younger, prettier, and more intimate with her son. It’s not as though they have spent their entire lives taking care […]
Continue ReadingHanya Yanagihara’s Crude Obsession With Sad, Gay Men
By the time you finish the 800-page story that is A Little Life, you’ll be left with the feeling of a hopeless desperation for a happy ending, even a single happy moment for the main character. The “New York Life” story follows four friends living in New York over five decades, centered around the one […]
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