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Re: celeb feminism (i’m looking forward to reading that Dazed article) but i’m been thinking about this A LOT in regards to Em Rata and her podcast. I think people were sort of talking about this when her book came out, specifically how she uses the personal-as-political as a way to not interrogate her own actions that contribute to maintaining standards of beauty, and how she gets power from being able to use those things to her benefit. With her though, I feel like she uses allusions to bell hooks to, well, get off the hook for not having any sort of analysis behind her beliefs. every clip i’ve seen of her podcast is just her and her guest talking about how men suck, and usually in the context of dating. And it’s like, ??? that’s not the beginning and end of feminism

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