In her new essay collection “Trick Mirror,” Jia Tolentino paints a bleak picture of our world of scams, mistruths, and self-delusions—all exacerbated by the internet. Is there a way out?
It is difficult to overstate how revolutionary these moments are for a television ecosystem that has long relegated fat women to predetermined categories: gross, hypersexual (or, alternatively, asexual), subordinate, unintelligent, and of course, shrill.
“Like most of us, the creators of Stranger Things seem unable or unwilling to imagine a storyline in which men can realize themselves as emotional beings without attaching that realization to the trauma of women. To be sure, the show’s female characters are resilient—but should they have to be?”
Maybe it’s not the appearance of moobs that invites so much scorn, but rather what they represent.
I also know that there are local narratives concealed from my neighbors and me, histories willfully forgotten because nobody wanted to remember them.
“Not everyone is notable enough for a Wikipedia entry. If you’re not notable, then you’re just gone.”
TC Martin reviews Buzzfeed Unsolved – Supernatural Season 3 in the latest installment of his column.
“The land is being loved to death.”
