Vulnerability: The New Girl Power

It’s tempting to view the female confessional as apolitical. In fact, it's a new form of feminism.

By Sady Doyle

"I finally started sobbing-sobbing,” reads one entry from author and sometime New York Times correspondent Kara Jessella’s blog, “real crying, not illustrative crying, like leave me alone, you are terrorizing me, i just had a seizure like two weeks ago, i [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

  • Reader Comments

    Required? please, I don’t do anything that I don’t want to do, equality/ freedom is at the core of who I am so I will never let myself be dominated or dominate others. I’m a lesbian feminist- anarchist and I don’t apologise or compromise on that, I was raised to expect equal relationships and not accept dominant - submissive ones.  That’s why I will never show vulnerability like this, because I don’t have it; that’s why I was one of the more cheerful people at school as opposed to a depressed emo ( that’s self determination theory for you).

    Posted by Habibi L'amour on Aug 16, 2012 at 1:05 AM

    Reminds me of Joni Mitchell’s repeated line in ‘California,’ “Will you take me as I am?”

    Posted by Sarah on Aug 16, 2012 at 6:34 PM

    Women should stop being such pussies.

    Posted by Doody on Aug 16, 2012 at 7:14 PM

    Fiona Apple’s new album is so good.  She is a genius with her weird piano chords and uncomfortable lyrics.

    Posted by kittylu on Aug 17, 2012 at 8:07 PM

    I ‘d stop being such a “pussy” if I didn’t have such a great cunt! :)

    Posted by Jenny Laws-mills on Aug 30, 2012 at 5:19 PM