“In a society that places immense pressure on women to look and act a certain way, I understand how intelligence can be a powerful defense mechanism. But we don’t only want to be smart; we want to look smart (whatever…devamı“In a society that places immense pressure on women to look and act a certain way, I understand how intelligence can be a powerful defense mechanism. But we don’t only want to be smart; we want to look smart (whatever that means), and we want people to know how smart we are. The allure of literary it girls and thought daughters is that she is a mirror reflecting the beauty and complexity of the world around her. But she isn’t real. She is a curated and fabricated concept of a woman.
Going back to what Helena Aeberli says in her essay, even if this “new turn towards intellectual aesthetics might be an attempt to give girl discourse a more substantive base, it feels equally as reductive. We can’t just be writers; we have to be girl writers, in which girl is conjoined to an invisible adjective: hot. Or at least, we have to package ourselves as such. Because otherwise, why would anyone want to read our work?”
