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Joss Whedon and the Feminist Pedestal: A Reading List - Longreads

A pedestal functions as a physical and symbolic "vehicle of distance". By raising an object or person above the common ground, we remove them from the messy, lived experience of humanity. pedestal

💡 : The pedestal is rarely a gift to the one on top; it is a cage that prevents them from walking beside us. Joss Whedon and the Feminist Pedestal: A Reading