#pretty sure this* is a turtles all the way down situation. or an ogres-are-like-onions situation | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

finelythreadedsky · 2 months

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ancient greece had some weird notions of the female going on. like what do you mean the innermost nature of women is the concealment of their nature? what is pandora an imitation of? if women are by nature deceptive, do they in fact reveal the truth of what they are in using their bodies to deceive? can you cover covering itself?

#ran into these roadblocks the last two times ive talked with my advisor #like. what does it mean when a woman adorns herself???? dead end. changing the subject!#pretty sure this* is a turtles all the way down situation. or an ogres-are-like-onions situation #*this (women)#absolutely FASCINATED by the potential implication that the core essence of womanhood is to lack a core essence.#so now i probably need to read gender theory #bodycostume #mine

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