matinee

"Nothing lasts, everything fades, we’re just a snake eating its own tail."

“There is an exaggerated binary fatalism to the stories, in which women are either successes or failures, always one for the other – and a sense of inescapability that things more true to life. If you can’t escape the market, why stop working on its terms? Women are generally trapped at the intersection of capitalism and patriarchy – two systems that, at the extremes, ensure that individual success comes at the expense of collective morality. And yet there’s an enormous pleasure in individual success. It can feel like licensing agency to approach an ideal, to find yourself – in a good picture, on your wedding day, and a flash of identical movement — exemplify a prototype. There are rewards for succeeding under capitalism and patriarchy; a rewards even for being willing to work on its terms. They’re nothing but rewards, at the surface level. The trap looks beautiful. It’s well-lit. It welcomes you in.”