Rebecca Traister - Feminist Buzzkills Podcast Ep. 83 #shorts

think about that rage and and a power structure and who's in the top and who's in the bottom and then think about where power and rage are directed if you're a woman and if so the Spanx inventor who is super powerful by making women's bodies conform to stereotypes that they're supposed to conform to right that's definitely working on behalf of a white patriarchal capitalist power structure making a lot of money by making women suck their bellies in okay so she's awesome the women who are challenging that system and when you think of what direction power moves in are moving Against the Grain those women their power and their anger are going to be rendered problematic hysterical comical dangerous or monstrous and that's how you that's how you figure out which which way you get cast is what is your relationship to how power works

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