I’m only 6 minutes into the latest episode of @OOACpod about monstrous women, and am suddenly floored by the realisation that the fear of “a woman who’s not what she seems” translates, very literally, to a fear of female interiority: the idea that women are more than their looks.
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A man who’s not what he seems is layered, mysterious. But a woman who’s not what she seems is dangerous and deceptive, because of this cultural hindbrain idea that men - and indeed, other women -should instantly be able to “know” a woman just by looking at her.
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This is where toxic femininity leans on the patriarchy to judge female “goodness” by external markers like clothes, cosmetics, hair & the contextual performance of things like submissiveness and smiling. If a woman makes you *think* about her beyond these, she’s failed at them.
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A monstrous woman cannot be predicted by her looks, because they’re contradicted by her personality. A monstrous woman makes you think about her motives - makes you *think of her presentation as performance,* which breaks the unwritten rule - because she is more than seeming.
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