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7 Jan

Is self-confidence culture helpful, or a late capitalist ploy?

Is self-confidence culture helpful, or a late capitalist ploy?
Confidence has been hijacked and sold back to us, distracting us from changing anything outside of our own self-esteem The story of Kat Hernandez is a parable of our times. The Euphoria character, played by Barbie Ferreira, starts off as an insecure teen who, over the course of the season one, overcomes her body-image issues and finds power through engaging in online sex work. A triumph of our current model of empowerment feminism, body positivity and self-love. Once we revisit Kat in season two, nevertheless, things aren’t going as well for our teen dominatrix who’s in a decidedly more vulnerable position: lying on her bed in a state of self-loathing. “Kat hated herself,”...
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