FFT: Bonus Essays--Beauty (2015) Part I [SPORKERS: ZELDAQUEEN, KET MAKURA and GEHAYI]
Bonus Essays--Beauty (2015) Part I
In which Walker takes on patriarchal attitudes about sex, marriage and women working that seem to have more in common with the 1970s than now, patriarchal fashions that don’t exist any longer, and why high heels are totally the Western equivalent of footbinding.
warning: abuse (emotional), warning: abuse (physical), warning: do not want, warning: mental illness leading to death, warning: potential triggers, warning: racism, warning: rape (mentioned), warning: sexism
In which Walker takes on patriarchal attitudes about sex, marriage and women working that seem to have more in common with the 1970s than now, patriarchal fashions that don’t exist any longer, and why high heels are totally the Western equivalent of footbinding.
warning: abuse (emotional), warning: abuse (physical), warning: do not want, warning: mental illness leading to death, warning: potential triggers, warning: racism, warning: rape (mentioned), warning: sexism