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It explains how women are pressured to optimize appearance, labor, sexuality, and relationships into transactional, compliant roles, while communities promote mass visual identities that reduce agency. Drawing on writers such as Jia Tolentino, Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Margaret Atwood, and Lauren Michele Jackson, it argues performance can function as both trap and choice, emphasizing persistent agency and the costs of conformity.","SPECIMEN  \nON FEMININITY AND PERFORMATIVITY  \nlil -itTaClifYetime\\#su1pO- RE  \nply of books you’ll never read, stacked in a de  \nORanli(bdaoeogtrraeanitenbo,edoly hwdeksEtlaiphbwhasteraaxzaruffte-seldeyald)emananwd piinmtel,nes aemalbodeseate pokhlksaeOnlheitterbotslvrueensdd RE  \nPERSONALITY \\#2  \nltktlaehsbteiplpethgilcupet coworboss,l$44overpvetedd knowcraze—4rliceegyyinu’i,nbeOes RE  \ndon’t need a corporate job because you’re still  \nRSinhoclleitgEeoEffaR!nd/orSOlivi$n7CoLur aTrenYtsO’ m. RE mlikiienginletntgbagegos byyourby agroodeco,feeuelcfndhgorudaoirapmnrdlhtdeodlnsiodgkedbleeo?eiveaagngfHoryba-edyretldtbihymounoiCnnolntgdoengslioalnw,Rniyourbabyandomanth ed colaleOtlibpcgatcgieainistkngzenten, RE  \nsupplements, and a slimming eating disorder.  \nliAtChegi”6 aOdEMinlRE  \nin your own mental illness. Exacerbate your social  \nORwabislilate omengionnnsalianwdnaEnpdineptresenhavetryitctueaodeanmbymoarcasidgsiestiilohcpeyroeingabsaranenintsnis-rgiiirryth- RE  \nWHY WOMEN  \nAs Jia Tolentino describes in her essay “Always Be Optimizing,” a woman is constantly being preened for capitalistic success. She is encouraged to forgo meaningful relationships in exchange for transactional ones that fit neatly into her tight schedule: a therapist, personal trainer, and nannies instead of friends or family, a “work husband” instead of a real life partner. Her sexuality and femininity are weaponized under the guise of empowerment in order to keep her compliant—in other words, mass consumption is not just a material pursuit. Capitalism idolizes the woman who can exist entirely on her own, calls her“self-reliant” or “self-starting,” and watches her convince herself it’s not loneliness, but a necessary step in protecting her peace or improving her lifestyle or saving her from some other innate human experience or emotion. Her life is reduced to the unpaid or costly labor of “prioritizing” herself, her self that has instead become a consumptive checklist to better operate in a society that is indifferent to her existence at best. Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez explores this in “The Precarity of Feminization;” women are constantly performing unpaid and unvalued labor to uphold society’s standards. Not only are women expected to suceed professionally in a corporate environment, but maintain a pristine home life for multiple people with no compensation.  \nA woman is not only expected to keep on top of accepted social conventionsand physical attributes, she is expected to exhibit them with ease to even be passable as a human being. Girls online have seemed to pick the idea of “aesthetics” as the cure to this predicament. Instead of having to figure out their own tastes and potentially facing backlash, young women instead subscribe to a mass identity defined entirely by visual stimuli and material possessions. They provide the perfect guide to optimization and lend a sense of control to women who would otherwise feel entirely powerless in a world that prioritizes efficiency, productivity, and perfection. She is told exactly what she should buy, how she should dress, how she should talk, and what she should look like. Each of these communities exists in a void, its participants shouting into the echo chamber until they remember to hold everyone at arm’s length. It allows her to fit comfortably into the patriarchal capitalist society we live in while giving her the illusion of autonomy, opinion, and individulity.  \nStill, women have agency. Women can willingly participate and engage with their own subjugation because, in some ways, it does serve them. It can certainly be easier than pushing back. After all, in a world that equates beauty with morality and value, why would you knowingly stray from the expectations laid bare before you? Victimizing intelligent women who make these choices about how to live their own lives is worse than participating. 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