Frankly I’m bored of trite articles by trite white women and trite shows about trite white women and their trite straight sex lives. But now that they get PAID and CELEBRATED to write trite shit does that mean feminizm is over???
on outperforming patriarchy
“the feminist parasite engages performance as a way of derailing and rerouting patriarchal investments in reciprocity, generational gratitude, and the gift economy that have structured discourses of morality, as realized by way of compulsory constructions of femininity as congenial, gracious, and obliging, not to mention the project of feminism as one that would seek gender equality, rather than to posit an opposition that would seek to hyperbolize, and thus outperform, patriarchy…
…parasitical performance iterates female stereotypes at a level of mania, while simultaneously claiming—or rather insisting (‘to be perfectly honest’)—that their performances bear some relationship to real life beyond the stage, effecting in this juxtaposition, a sense of disquietude or instability in the system. despite the often very apparent artificiality or hyperbole of their contrived spectacles, the artists’ refuse to break character, to let their ‘real meaning’ be finally pinned down…”
—anna watkins fisher, “we are parasites: on the politics of imposition,” art and education. see: feminist narcissism, feminist boredom, radical vulnerability, feminist hysteria, strategic ambiguity, ldr, etc.
bolding, kara; ital, me.
I’m always down to troll the patriarchy. TROLL-LOL-LOL-LOL-LOL
