1) In the 1988 version of The Female Complaint, Lauren Berlant wrote: “women are expected to live with and to desire the parties who have traditionally and institutionally denied them autonomy.” This flattens women to a set of attributes to be policed, rather than people to be understood. In doing so, women end up not only having little agency but are forced into defending the boundaries of those attributes. We saw that in the $200m Trump spent on anti-trans ads.
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