“What does a woman running for president have to do to be likable? Not run for president.” — Carina Chocano Likable Copy Share Image
“Romantic love is a mirror in which you can see your whole self pleasantly reflected, if you’re lucky. Or it’s a dark… — Carina Chocano Love Copy Share Image
“Strategic girls manage perception; idealistic girls go up against the narrative, because it’s at the root of the problem, and they get… — Carina Chocano Girls Copy Share Image
“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it… — Carina Chocano Longings Copy Share Image
“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t… — Carina Chocano Fairy Copy Share Image
“It [puberty] is not that you lose control of your body so much as that you lose control over the way your… — Carina Chocano Body-politic Copy Share Image
“We appeared to be done with the marriage plot. ('What's the alternative to the marriage plot?' She said: ' The alternative is… — Carina Chocano Adventure Copy Share Image
“To remain a spinster was to be societally “redundant,” but to marry, for a girl, was to be absorbed into the self… — Carina Chocano Education Copy Share Image
“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic… — Carina Chocano Marriage Copy Share Image
“Every new generation of women, it seems, feminist and housewife alike, is encouraged by popular culture to disavow its forebears and rebrand… — Carina Chocano Big picture Copy Share Image
“I'd been so tired of 'strong female characters' for so long by then. I was so tired of the way female strength… — Carina Chocano Credit card Copy Share Image
“What if, Elliott suggested, The Stepford Wives was more than just about housewifely ennui but also about the alienation and unending tedium… — Carina Chocano End result Copy Share Image
“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were… — Carina Chocano Beverly hills Copy Share Image
“In his 1899 critique of upper-class values, The Theory of the Leisure Class, economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen wrote, 'The dress of… — Carina Chocano Fashion Copy Share Image
“Sex may be completely out in the open now, but it's still defined and controlled by a powerful subset of elite men.… — Carina Chocano Female character Copy Share Image
“Gothic is the genre of fear. Our fascination with it is almost always revived during times of instability and panic. In the… — Carina Chocano Culture and language Copy Share Image
“Women's ideas of themselves had changed, but the world's idea of women, somehow, had not. The cognitive dissonance was palpable at all… — Carina Chocano Cognitive dissonance Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, it seems like popular media exists primarily to set impossible standards and then to shame people who don't try their hardest… — Carina Chocano Feminism Copy Share Image
“There's a decadent glamour to falling apart, but not everyone can afford it.” — Carina Chocano Falling apart Copy Share Image
“In societies where women's rights are no longer openly, blatantly denied - as they are not in most of the Western world… — Carina Chocano Feminism Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t just the movies. It was everything, everywhere. It was the sublimated sexism that mutated every experience but that we weren’t… — Carina Chocano Sublimated Sexism Copy Share Image
“the shock of waking up to the fact that the world does not also belong to you; the shame at having been… — Carina Chocano Coping mechanisms Copy Share Image
“...She recalls talking to her 'about how there were no women in The Godfather.' Or rather, that the women only served to… — Carina Chocano Godfather Copy Share Image
“The fear of 'unnatural' women was high, as it was in the 1980s, as it is as I write this in 2016.… — Carina Chocano Fear Copy Share Image
“They didn't just want Bernie to win; they wanted Clinton to lose to Bernie. And if she wouldn't lose to Bernie, or… — Carina Chocano Feminism Copy Share Image
“...Lindsay Lohan is a textbook persecuted gothic heroine. In the space of about two months just after Christmas 2006, Lindsay Lohan entered… — Carina Chocano Global warming Copy Share Image
“But alas, I'd have to find a way to be opinionated without being too opinionated, authoritative without being a bitch about it,… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Alice's predicament in Wonderland is a familiar one to modern women: She's a post-Enlightenment girl in a persistently feudal world. She perceives… — Carina Chocano Parallel universe Copy Share Image
“Girls in pop culture are also often represented in ways that feel almost, but not quite, human. They are lifelike rather than… — Carina Chocano Pop culture Copy Share Image
“Her remark laid bare not only the reality - not enough comic opportunities for women in Hollywood - but also the ideology… — Carina Chocano Coping mechanisms Copy Share Image
“Our fascination with the gothic peaks in times of anxiety, panic, and upheaval. The Victorian gothic revival of the 1890s was stoked… — Carina Chocano Dangerous world Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, maybe what attracts us aren't the stories of falling apart so much as the stories of self-creation. The… — Carina Chocano Art Copy Share Image
“What is marriage anymore, anyway? How is the institution structured? What assumptions do we bring to it? Is it an irreducible economic… — Carina Chocano Birth control Copy Share Image
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