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4.02 AVERAGE
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the singular way that this book captures a common feeling that every woman has experienced - without the context of modelling - is deserving of praise in and of itself.
but the way that ratajkowski discusses the reification and commodification of her body with such reverent prose is astounding. her discussion of body politics is moving, thought-provoking and all encompassing, all at once.
i regret not reading it sooner. i regret the misconceptions i had prior to reading. i could not put it down
but the way that ratajkowski discusses the reification and commodification of her body with such reverent prose is astounding. her discussion of body politics is moving, thought-provoking and all encompassing, all at once.
i regret not reading it sooner. i regret the misconceptions i had prior to reading. i could not put it down
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"I will no longer blame myself for having become small and digestible for you. I have grown past shame and fear and into anger. It is ugly, but I am not scared of it. I want more for myself. I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we’ve called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. I stood on their shoulders to get here."
In this book, emily ratajkowski, also known as emrata, does a wonderfully vulnerable study of her own life, the objectification of her body, the multiple ways in which her body has been violated before and during her career, and also the blessings her own body has given her. I believe so many women can relate with this book even if your life looks nothing like that of emily's, because one fact remains true: we have all been taught from a young age to objetify our own bodies, we have all suffered under the male gaze, we all know what it's like to want control in a mans world. Ratajkowski is an excellent writter and i applaud her for this book. I hope to see more from her in the near future.
In this book, emily ratajkowski, also known as emrata, does a wonderfully vulnerable study of her own life, the objectification of her body, the multiple ways in which her body has been violated before and during her career, and also the blessings her own body has given her. I believe so many women can relate with this book even if your life looks nothing like that of emily's, because one fact remains true: we have all been taught from a young age to objetify our own bodies, we have all suffered under the male gaze, we all know what it's like to want control in a mans world. Ratajkowski is an excellent writter and i applaud her for this book. I hope to see more from her in the near future.
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parts of it spoke to me, others didn’t. her honest perspective and experiences are interesting; ratajkowski questions her bodily autonomy through the commodifcation, the exploitation and perhaps empowerment (?) of her body through the personal lens of her lived experiences. It’s not feminist theory or intersectional by any means, or connecting the dots of systems of oppression in any way, but i also didn’t expect it to. Does it give girlboss white feminism? Despite her own distaste of the word girlboss, yes. She is a capitalist, whether she feels she’s just playing the system or not. Anyways, interesting memoir, finished it in a day.
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Graphic: Rape
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The author is beautifully open about her experiences and thoughts
I enjoyed this more than I expected. It made me think a lot about privacy, and the commodification of women’s bodies. It also made me think about the ways other women might abandon those women in proximity to extreme wealth and fame because we resent their proximity to the men who hold the keys to everything - money, security, respect. And I understand her point that this proximity still did not give her access. But I wish she could have held that ambivalence more. Of course she was a victim but this particular industry is built on women’s oppression - not just her own but all the women who will never see the kind of money and luxury she sees. I am interested in how to hold that duality. At the same time, I imagine she’s been asked to perform guilt a lot throughout her career and there’s something powerful in her choice not to do that in this book. Still, it really killed me every time she reminded us that she’s from a middle class background. I’d be curious to see her write the same book in thirty years.
You see the title and think, surely this book isn't just about her body... but it totally is. While Emily is very articulate and details such horrible details of abuse and misogynic aspects of the industry, she goes back and forth between wanting people to understand she doesn't want her body to be commodified, to detailing all the ways she herself commodifies her own body. It's a thin line between empowering and sad, I guess..
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inspiring
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