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Abundance

by Ezra Klein

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Feb 05, 2026 10:04AM

“Sometimes, it seems like popular media exists primarily to set impossible standards and then to shame people who don't try their hardest to meet them.”
― Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

tags: feminism, pop-culture

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“It [puberty] is not that you lose control of your body so much as that you lose control over the way your body is interpreted. Your body becomes an alien body, a question rather than a statement.”
― Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

tags: body-politic, feminism, puberty

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“In societies where women's rights are no longer openly, blatantly denied - as they are not in most of the Western world - women are instead encouraged to deny them voluntarily.”
― Carina Chocano

tags: feminism, women-s-rights

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