“Today, feminist criticism equates ‘the true self’ with a face unaltered by artifice. Such a concept paradoxically defines the presence of self by the absence of its expression. The self is thus imagined as passive and preexisting rather than processual and consciously spoken. An ‘expressive self’ seems as valid and liberating a concept as the pared-down notion of unvarnished selfhood advocated by feminism. From an ‘expressive’ viewpoint, valuing individuality is not inconsistent with the unabashedly artificial self-adornment practices of the 1960s.”
Fresh Lipstick, Linda M. Scott. p 264
I think that it is great the way most of the feminist community online has come out in support of BITCH. I have to say most because Jezebel had some really snarky and uncalled for commentary.