/lit/ - Literature

>>4856263
>he's the only young person I can think of (except for his drones) writing about contemporary youth culture (or lack thereof).

Laurie Penny can write circles around Tao Lin.

>God tier
Penny Red
Discordia

>Good tier:
Flesh Market
Film/book reviews
New Statesman articles
political essays

>Shit tier
Anything for vice
Cybersexism
Public debates/lectures
Guardian articles

>>4695416
Sinead O’Connor is right about one thing: The music industry does not care about young women. Society does not care about young women—not, that is, about female people who just happen to be young. Rather, it cares about Young WomenTM as concept and commodity, Young WomenTM as pose and performance, Young WomenTM and how much money you can squeeze out of them before they turn around and demand to be treated like human beings—which is still the most shocking thing an actual female person can do.

The problem is not that we cannot decide whether nearly-naked pop stars are empowered or exploited. The problem is that bland sexual performance is still the only power this society grants to young women, and it grants it grudgingly, rushing to judge and humiliate them whenever they claim it. Rather than condemn girls as they try to negotiate this strange, sexist society—a society that offers temporary, dazzling power to those who play the game—we should be supporting them as they grow up, make art and stick out their tongue at the whole stuck-up world—and that starts with a stand against slut-shaming.

>>3917352

>Whose moral teachings does /lit/ follow?
Laurie Penny's.

>>3515464
It's called capitalism.

Read some Laurie Penny.

>I'd like it to be sort of a "fuck yeah, humanity rules" piece.

>>3459537